BIO
Tim Schouten is a painter well known for his mastery of the hot wax medium of 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 in Manitoba, Canada.
Schouten’s long-term ongoing project, The Treaty Suites, initiated in 2004, involves research and photography at all sites of signings and adhesions to the Numbered Treaties in Central Canada, with the goal of creating a series of paintings for each treaty.
He is also known for his paintings of horses and dogs.
Schouten was born in Winnipeg and studied with Gordon Raynor, Graham Coughtry and Robert Markle at Art’s Sake Inc. in Toronto, 1978-80. His painting career spans four decades, and his work is held in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, the Province of Manitoba, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Toronto Dominion Bank, and Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Spirit Lake, N.D.
Schouten’s work was featured in an episode of the Grammy award winning TV series Landscape as Muse. He has attended residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop, McCanna House in North Dakota, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg and the Artbarn in Western Pennsylvania. Schouten has presented 13 solo exhibitions, participated in five two-person and over forty group exhibitions in Canada and the U.S. Select exhibitions include “Perspectives” with Robert Houle, curated by Patricia Bovey at Buhler Gallery, Winnipeg (2009), “aski nipay” with KC Adams at Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg (2016) and his recent solo exhibition, “The Treaty 5 Suite (Lost in Translation),” at the North Dakota Museum of Art (2022–23).
Tim Schouten is Represented by Soul Gallery in Winnipeg, and by Slate Fine Art Gallery in Regina, SK.