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ARTIST NAME: Okamura, Tim
ACCESSION NUMBER: 2007.068.002
TITLE: THE WIFE OF HINON
DATE: 2007
CATEGORY: Mixed Media
MEDIUM: oil, spray paint, paint marker
SUPPORT: canvas
DIMENSIONS: Actual: 117 x 101.6 x 3.3 cm (46 1/16 x 40 x 1 5/16 in.) Frame: 122.5 x 107.4 x 6.6 cm (48 1/4 x 42 5/16 x 2 5/8 in)
COLLECTION: Alberta Foundation for the Arts


OTHER HOLDINGS: Okamura, Tim
ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Tim Okamura’s colourful, expressive figures radiate from their canvases, connecting with viewers as if through chance meetings with fascinating strangers on the street or at a party. Born in Edmonton, Okamura graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design (1991), earned his MFA at New York City’s School of Visual Arts (1993), and trained at the New York Academy of Art (1996 – 1999). He benefited from many scholarships, including the Alexander Rutherford, the Henry Clinton Memorial Scholarship for Achievement in Visual Arts, and the Louise McKinney. The immediacy and accessibility of Okamura’s work as a graphic designer may have been reinforced by his work at the Bennet Book Advertising agency in New York (1993 – 1994); regardless, he has spent the rest of his career making art and teaching at New York schools such as the Fashion Institute of Technology, the City University, and the Parsons School of Design. Okamura’s solo exhibitions include Urban Portraits which was staged at the Cutting Room in New York and Axis Art in Calgary, and Bricks, Locks & Obstacles at New York’s Kanvas Gallery. Okamura has participated in group shows such as After Hours at Edmonton’s William Mackenzie Centre Gallery, Fresh 2002 at Artspace Gallery in Calgary, and the BP Portrait Awards Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Okamura’s work has great appeal to Hollywood celebrities, and lives in the collections of actors Uma Thurman, Anabella Sciorra, and bandleader of The Roots, Ahmir Questlove Thompson. The artist has won the Alberta College of Art Board of Governors Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and a Lily Auchincloss Foundation New York Foundation for the Arts Chosen Fellow in Painting.


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