Tim Schouten
The Artist
Tim Schouten is a painter who works primarily in encaustic. His practice probes the edges of landscape, language, history, and kinship. His work incorporates figuration, text, and abstraction as systems for discovery and disclosure. He lives and works as a settler on Treaty 1 territory.
He studied art under Gordon Raynor, Graham Coughtry and Robert Markle at Art’s Sake Inc. in Toronto. His painting career spans four decades. His work is held in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, the North Dakota Museum of Art, and the Province of Manitoba.
Selected exhibitions include Perspectives with Robert Houle, curated by Pat Bovey, at Buhler Gallery in Winnipeg; aski nipay with KC Adams at Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg; and his recent solo exhibition, The Treaty 5 Suite (Lost in Translation), at the North Dakota Museum of Art. Schouten is known for his extended project, The Treaty Suites, and for his paintings of horses.
Schouten has presented 14 solo exhibitions, participated in five two-person and over forty group exhibitions in Canada and the U.S. His work was featured in an episode of the Grammy award winning TV series Landscape as Muse. He has attended artist residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop, McCanna House in ND, Plug In ICA in Winnipeg and the Artbarn in West Pennsylvania.
