Timothy Sean Guthrie is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker. Guthrie's work is in collections throughout the United States, including the , and the , Plemmons Collection of Contemporary Art,, and the Leigh Lane Edwards Collection of Contemporary Art,.
Collaborations
Guthrie collaborated with Lance Olsen, a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel Tonguing the Zeitgeist on an interactive hypertext novel called 10:01, which was also published in the Electronic Literature Directory and The Iowa Review - 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 Creighton University professors and students Backpack Journalism Project
Residencies and Exhibitions
Guthrie has been an artist-in-residence places such as Ørslev Kloster, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, New Pacific Studio, and the Blue Mountain Center, and The Vermont Studio Center. He has also been awarded fellowships and grants. Other awards include a purchase award at the and awards at "Conflicts: The Cult of War and the Culture of Peace - AniMOweb", Modena, Italy, for the short film “Recalling Trinity", which was also included in the Hiroshima International Animation Festival, the Fort Omaha Film Conference, Film Streams and the Sheldon Museum of Art. His work has been shown in many venues, including the Holter Museum of Art, Bellevue Arts Museum, St. George Art Museum, and the Nevada Museum of Art and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts for a complex installation called "Rendition" which was originally shown in Reno, 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".
Book
Guthrie's work was also included in “Ingres, regards croisés” Authors Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dimitri Salmon; publisher Editions Mengès and Réunion des Musées nationaux, Paris, France.
Awards
Guthrie was Best Visual Artist, Best New Media Artist and was awarded Best Group Show in 2014. He was also Best New Media Artist in 2007 and was awarded Best Group Show the same year. He has also been awarded Individual Artist Fellowships in 2011, 2008, 2007 and 2006. Guthrie is a professor at Creighton University.
Artwork
Guthrie has used his work to make commentaries on social issues, including a massive "Art Giveaway" during which he 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, his exhibition about the United States' Extraordinary Rendition program, a show about the USA's nuclear testing program called Nuclear Dichotomies, and most recently, a show about political bias in education called The Museum of Alternative History
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
