Timothy McDowell

Timothy McDowell teaches intaglio printmaking using photopolymer plates, woodcut, linocut and stone lithography. These processes are rotated through Print Workshop, courses ART 204 and ART 202. He also teaches Drawing Fundamentals and Drawing Through Process.

He has exhibited his work nationally with gallery representation in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Santa Fe, and Brooklyn; and internationally with galleries in Calgary, Canada; Sao Paolo, Brazil; Kanazawa, Japan; Quito, Ecuador; Venice, Italy; and Utrecht, Netherlands. He has represented the United States at the 5th Cuenca Biennial of Painting, Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador, selected by Commissioner/Curator David Rubin of Phoenix Museum of Art.

McDowell's work can be found in several museums and private collections. These include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Prints and Drawings Collection, New York, New York; The University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, Iowa; The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; Sol LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut; Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California; and The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut.

You can view his artwork online.

Timothy was born in Texas and spent his formative years regularly visiting family in SOHO, New York City, during the 1960’s and 70’s. This exposure to active artists, their lofts, family and friends was quite influential in determining his future decisions. He received his bachelor of fine arts degree in Texas and his master's degree in fine arts in Tucson from the University of Arizona. In Tucson, he was assigned a fellowship as printer for the PressTime Studio of the Department of Art and oversaw printing sessions with visiting artists while hosting their stay. These artists included Lynda Benglis, Robert Irwin and James Turrell. In 1981, immediately upon finishing graduate school, he was hired for his position here at Connecticut College.  

Throughout his career, he has juried national exhibitions, selected awards and recipients of artists’ grants and has been a visiting artist to various other institutions and art centers. In 2014-2015 he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant for Painting. 

Timothy McDowell Curriculum Vitae (pdf)