Education
2012-2014 Southern Methodist University, Master of Fine Arts.
1995 University of Illinois at Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Awards and Residencies
2021 Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, Honorable Mention for “Wrong With You”
2018 Picture Berlin, Fall Session Residency, Berlin
2017 Packpeelpour Published Artist, curated by Nicole Stowe and Seth Boonchai, New Orleans, Louisiana
2017 Institut für Alles Mögliche, Two Month Residency, Berlin, Germany
2015 Accepted to the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2015 Artpace International Artist in Residence Open Call Short List, San Antonio, Texas
2014 Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas FUNd event finalist selected by Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas CADD FUNd grant finalist, juried by Gabriel Ritter, the Nancy & Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art; Judy Deaton, Chief Curator at The Grace Museum; and William Rudolph, Ph.D., The Marie & Hugh Halff Curator of American Art and Mellon Chief Curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art
2012-2014 SMU Meadows School of the Arts Graduate Fellowship
2009 Louisiana Artworks National Artist Residency, New Orleans, Louisiana
2009 Puffin Foundation Grant
2008-2010 Gallery 500x Membership, Dallas, Texas
2007 Pollock-Krasner Grant: Santa Fe Art Institute Artist Residency.
2007 Top Ten Cultural Events, Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee.
2007 Rhodes College visiting artist program, Memphis, Tennessee
1995 Tuition award, University of Illinois at Chicago spring semester and fall semester.
Solo Shows
2020 “FLASH” Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 “POLISHED” HEARTBREAKER, curated by Bill Conger, Peoria, Illinois
2016 “POLISHED” Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 “CRUSH” Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2007 “Manufacturing Expectations, Site Specific Installation”, The Medicine Factory, Memphis, Tennessee.
Group Shows
2023 "Funhouse Distortions", Curated by Jacqueline Blanco, Plush Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2021 “San Francisco Porn Film Festival”, Screening of the video “Wrong With You”, San Francisco, California
2021 “Poser”, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2020 “San Francisco Porn Film Festival”, Screening of the video “Poser”, San Francisco, California
2020 “Vienna Porn Film Festival”, Screening of the Video “Change” and “Look Like Me”, Vienna Austria
2019 “Boys Don’t Cry”, Featured in Demented Goddess Issue 19, UK based online publication.
2019 “Berlin Porn Film Festival, Art Film Short Selection”, Screening of the video “Poser”, Berlin, Germany
2019 “Dallas Medianale 2”, Screening of the video “Poser”, Latino Cultural Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
2019 "Großkreisentfernung Mail Art Exhibition", tête, Berlin, Germany, curated by Marcus Brownlow
2019 “Like a Girl”, Dallas, TX, curated by Molly Sydnor
2017 “Good Friends Video Screening”, Curated by Keumwha Kim, Berlin
2017 Peripheral Vision’s Inaugural Salon 2017 Fellowship, curated by Georgia Erger, Curatorial Fellow at Southern Methodist University
2016 “Slideluck Potshow Dallas”, Annette Strauss Square, AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas, Texas. Curated by Andrea Kearns from the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas
2015 “And they Papered the Wall”, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas TX
2015 “Patent Pending”, Exhibition made entirely of 1960’s era patent books. My contribution was “hairy book crack”. 5&J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2015 “Arts Libris | Barcelona” International Fair of Contemporary Editions, Work on display via zine. Made possible through the efforts of printmaker, artist Teresa Gomez-Martorell. Barcelona, Spain
2015 “The Room We Discovered An-Other In The Corner”, Curated by Alison Starr, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX
2014 “Dense Fog Advisory”, SMU MFA offsite exhibition at Beefhaus, Dallas, TX
2014 MFA Final Exhibition, Southern Methodist University, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 “Prompt” Group show at Beefhaus Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 “Moving Pictures” Curated by Christine Bisetto, Brand 10 Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2013 “Side Affect” Curated by Liliana Bloch, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas TX
2012 “Showmen” with Tom Orr, Cameron Shoepp and Titus O’Brien, Brand 10 Art Space, Fort Worth, TX
2011 “On Stage” projects ‘making a scene’ by Tim Best and ‘Sidelines’ by Tom Leininger two opposing views of performance, 500x Gallery Dallas, TX
2011 “5 Photographers” Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2011 “From the Faithful to Forlorn” Curator Andy Levin, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2010 “Like a Prayer” Curator Martina Batan, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2010 “Modern Ruin” Washington Mutual Branch Building before its destruction, Curated by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer, Dallas, Texas.
2010 “Sheep, Sharks, and Nightlights.”, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2009 “Frontier Preachers”, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2009 “Caliente” Juror José Torres-Tama, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2009 “Texas National 2009” Juror Mel Chin, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.
2009 “Guardrail Damage Ahead” 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2008 “Me Myself and I” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 “St Claude Collective - a Prospect.1 Biennial site” Universal Furniture Building, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 Dallas Film and Video Fest Angelika Film Center, Dallas, Texas.
2008 “Me, Myself and I” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 St. Claude Collective Exhibition A Prospect.1 Biennial Venue, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 500x Gallery Member’s Show “Under New Management” Annual exhibition of 500x Members Dallas, Texas.
2008 Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival Experimental category for “One Liners” video.
2008 “500x 30th Anniversary Show” 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2007 “Identity” New Orleans Photo Alliance Curated By Deborah Luster.
2007 “Day Jobs” Three Walls Chicago, Illinois Curated by Kristin Freeman, Caroline Picard, Rachel Wakeman and Sarah Wambold.
2007 “Unusual Suspects” Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA Curated by Dan Tague.
2007 “Megabytes 6” Juried screening Contemporary Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2007 “The ‘I’ Show” New Orleans Digital Darkroom, New Orleans, Louisiana Juror David Halliday.
2006 “The Human Body” New Orleans Digital Darkroom, New Orleans, Louisiana juried by David Houston, Chief Curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
2006 “The Virus Show” The Green Room, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Surge” The Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, New York.
2006 “Just a Perfect Day, works by Tim Best and Jillienne Buena” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Likeness - Alternative Portraiture” Barrister’s, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Arty Gras” The Warehouse, Washington D.C.
2006 “Sustained Winds” Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana.
2005 “No Place Like Home” Giola Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2005 “All that Art” 8 New Orleans Artists showing during Jazz Fest, Fair Grinds Café New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 “Hydriotaphia - New Orleans Artists Design their Funeral Urns” Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 “New Art For a New Year” 18 New Orleans Artists at Ashé Cultural Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2004 “Mermaid Lounge Closing Bash” An Evening of performance and Video, Mermaid Lounge, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Workshops
2018 Drawing from the collection Children’s Class at the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth.
2015 “Positions and Reflections” Adult 2 day photography workshop at the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth.
2014 Drawing from the collection Children’s Class at the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth.
2011 Drawing from the collection Adults at the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth.
Lectures
2009 “Staged Environments” visiting artist talk at University of Texas at Arlington.
2008 “ArtSpeak” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2007 “Manufacturing Expectations” Part of the Rhodes College visiting artists program, Memphis, Tennessee.
Collectives
2015-2017 Beefhaus, https://www.facebook.com/artbeeftx Dallas TX
2015 Art as social wormhole reading group, Dallas, TX
2008-2010 500x, http://www.500x.org/, Dallas, TX
Bibliography
“Poser” and selected photographs, published in Peachfuzz Magazine, Vol 9, 2021
Selected Photographs published in the 2022-2023, 150 month Peachfuzz Calendar
FLASH: The Garden and the Cave, published by PACKPEELPOUR, New Orleans, LA Curated by Nichol Stowe and Seth Boonchai
“PORTABLE”, part of electricPDF in conjunction with Doug Aitken Electric Earth, AT&T curated by Jesse Morgan Barnett, published August 18th, 2017
Peripheral Vision’s Inaugural Salon 2017 Fellowship, curated by Georgia Erger, Curatorial Fellow at Southern Methodist University.
“Crusher? I Hardly Know Her.”, Dallas Observer, June 5th, 2014 http://www.dallasobserver.com/2014-06-05/calendar/crusher-i-hardly-know-her/full/
“Artist of the Day”, Dallas Arts Salon, July, 2010 http://dallasartssalon.blogspot.com/2010/07/artist-of-day-tim-best.html
“Friday Art Star” Photopol.us, September, 2010 http://photopol.us/2010/05/07/friday-art-star-tim-best/
“Constance” Publication of New Orleans Artists and Writers, 2008.
“Sustained Winds” Catalogue of the show at Acadiana Center for the Arts, 2008.
“Arresting Developments” Review of “Unusual Suspects” by Eric Brookhardt, The Gambit, July 1st issue 2007.
“Exceeding Our Expectations” Review of “Manufacturing Expectations” by Fredric Koeppel, Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 13th, 2007.
“Magic Mirrors” Review of “Just a Perfect Day” by Doug MacCash, New Orleans Time Picayune, July 7th, 2006.
“Art Recommended” Review of “Just a Perfect Day” by Eric D Brookhardt, New Orleans Gambit Weekly, July 11th, 2006.
“Show Gives Gulf Coast Land to Build On” Review of “No Place like Home” by Jenn Q Goddu, Chicago Tribune December 2, 2005.
Collections
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM