About

Tj Templeton

712.541.5447

tj *at* templeton-arts.com
 

EDUCATION

1989 – 1990 Foundations Program, Kansas City Art Institute


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023 - Current 
Curator, Firehouse Gallery #8, Kansas City, MO

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2017 - Current
Gallery Director, Bunker Center for the Arts, Kansas City, MO

2015-2016
Curator, Spatium Gallery, Lincoln, NE

2014 - 2016
Instructor/owner, Templeton Studios Creative Workshops

2016
Internship, Darger HQ, Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Abundance, Smalter Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2022
Selected Works, Trap Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2018
Alpha and Omega, Bunker Center for the Arts, Kansas City, MO

2017
West Crossroads Storefront Takeover, Pearl Theater, Kansas City, MO

2017
First Friday Pop-up Exhibition, Outburst Theater, Kansas City, MO

2016
Youthful Commodities, Petshop Gallery, Omaha, NE

2016
Narcissus Smirked: A snapshot of our Selfie Culture, Gallery 105, Lincoln, NE

2015
Waxing Candidly and Other Observations, Spatium, Lincoln, NE

2015
Selected Works 2014-2015, Crescent Moon, Lincoln, NE

2015
Selected Works on paper, Spatium, Lincoln, NE

2015
Drastic Measures, Spatium, Lincoln, NE

2015
Stop/Go: exercises in red and green, Spatium, Lincoln, NE

2014
Recent Works,  Gallery 105,  Lincoln, NE

 

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Materials and Labor, 21C Museum, Kansas City, MO

2023
From the Earth, Buttonwood Artspace, Kansas City, MO

2017
Truth, Trust, Transcend, Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Kansas City, MO

PUBLICATIONS

2023
​Conversations with TJ Templeton, VoyageKC Magazine, May 2023, Link

2023
Interview with Tj Templeton, Core Magazine, Issue 5

2023
Meet Tj Templeton, Canvas Rebel, March 2023
Link

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2022
Elisabeth Kirsch: Tj Templeton: The Fine Art of Recycling, KC Studio Magazine, Volume XIV, Issue 2

2016
J. Fatima Martins: Tj Templeton’s Narcissus Smirked: Selfies as Mixed Media Metaportraits, ART MOVE Magazine, Issue 9

2016
Kent Wolgamott: Artist takes on the selfie in 'Narcissus Smirked', Lincoln Journal Star

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2015
L. Kent Wolgamott: Tj Templeton's diverse "Waxing Candidly" explores child labor, politics and the selfie, Lincoln Journal Star

2015
J. Fatima Martins, video interview, Artscope Magazine

2015
Jon Weirman, Portraying The Under the Rug Regimen of Child Labor: Tj Templeton's "Waxing Candidly"

2014
Hear Nebraska: Favorite Album Art of 2014

2014
L. Kent Wolgamott: Bin 105 show introduces painter T.J. Templeton to Lincoln, Lincoln Journal Star

2014
Listed as one of L.Kent Wolgamott's 10 favorite shows of 2014, Lincoln Journal Star