Timothy Sean Guthrie (born 1965 in

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) is a visual artist and

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. Guthrie's work is in collections throughout the

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, including the

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, and the

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, Plemmons Collection of Contemporary Art, (Boone, North Carolina), and the Leigh Lane Edwards Collection of Contemporary Art, (

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). Tim Guthrie gave a TEDxOmaha talk in October 2018 about ''An Artist's Journey Through Love and Loss''. The talk focused on the death of his wife in 2015, and his grieving process, as well as the mini-documentary he created about her, called ''Missing Piece'', which won numerous national and International awards. The works were also featured on the cover and in an article of Omaha Magazine. He won a Top 25 MFA Sculptors in the Nation award from the

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and Sculpture Magazine, and worked on the Lied Jungle at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, and he references both in a Creative Mornings talk where, among many projects, he also discusses working on the Lost City in Africa.

Collaborations

Guthrie collaborated with

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, a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel ''Tonguing the Zeitgeist'' (

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,1994) on an interactive hypertext novel called 10:01, which was also published in the Electronic Literature Directory (

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- Web Edition. Guthrie also collaborated with Olsen on an experimental animation called "The Nature of the Creative Process", which was featured at &Now. Guthrie also has directed awarding winning films with

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professors and students Backpack Journalism Project

Residencies and Exhibitions

Guthrie has been an artist-in-residence places such as Ørslev Kloster (Denmark), The

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(

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), New Pacific Studio (

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), and the Blue Mountain Center, (Blue Mountain, NY) and The

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. He has also been awarded fellowships and grants (Nevada Arts Council, Sierra Arts Foundation,

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, each funded by the

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). Other awards include a purchase award at th
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and awards at "Conflicts: The Cult of War and the Culture of Peace - AniMOweb", Modena, Italy, for the short film “Recalling Trinity" (

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), which was also included in the

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, the Fort Omaha Film Conference,

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and the

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. His work has been shown in many venues, including the Holter Museum of Art,

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, St. George Art Museum, and the

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and the

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for a complex installation called "Rendition" which was originally shown in

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, NV, and in which visitors had their reactions to his paintings of prisoners being tortured "digitally downloaded into a database for future examination and analysis".

Books

Guthrie's work was included in the book ''Ingres, regards croisés'' by Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dimitri Salmon. Guthrie's photography was used in ''Ink'', Davis Schneiderman's third book in his DEAD/BOOKS trilogy.

Awards

Guthrie was Best Visual Artist, Best New Media Artist and was awarded Best Group Show (Museum of Alternative History) in 2014. He was also Best New Media Artist in 2007 and was awarded Best Group Show (Nuclear Dichotomies) the same year. He has also been awarded Individual Artist Fellowships (

) in 2011, 2008, 2007 and 2006 (Distinguished Artist). Guthrie is a professor at

Artwork

Guthrie has used his work to make commentaries about social justice such as his ''The Museum of Alternative History'' project, which addresses cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias and a 2007 show about the USA's nuclear testing program called ''Nuclear Dichotomies''. He has presented his work as an activist at presentation around the world, such as ''Digital Disobediences'' where he was featured as part of

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's Platform series. His ''Big Art Giveaway'' gave away nearly 500 pieces of artwork during the year of 2012 to "the 99%" including a show of much of the work at the Modern Arts Midtown Gallery in Omaha, NE. In 2010, Guthrie collaborated with Doug Hayko to create an exhibition about the United States'

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program at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

Installations

Guthrie's work has included site specific installations, such as the Elements installation "Burn" at Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue, NE, and "Flow" in Elkhorn, NE and outdoor video projections such as the one for "Science Fair" in Omaha, NE. Guthrie has also done public art pieces, including murals and banners on silos.http://www.publicartomaha.org/artists/bio/189

Education

(

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Painting/Drawing) *

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(

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Sculpture)

Residencies

*Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain, New York *

, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland *New Pacific Studio, New Zealand *Hall Farm Center for the Arts and Education, Townshend, VT *

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, VA *Ørslev Kloster, Højslev, Denmark *

, Johnson, VT ;Collections:
Boise Art Museum
Boise, Idaho
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art
Great Falls, Montana *Plemmons Collection of Contemporary Art, Boone, North Carolina *Leigh Lane Edwards Collection of Contemporary Art,

References

External links

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