Timothy Siciliano
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THE LUNCH BEFORE THE DÉTENTE
January 17 - February 28, 2026
Artist reception Saturday Jan 17th 5-7pm
Artist Talk: February 14th, 3-4pm

EXHIBITIONS

2021 Slouching Towards Possible Enlightenment, studio e, Seattle WA.
2013 Donna Summers in Syria – Archangel Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2011 The Factory Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
2010 Dongguan Highways Hot Pink – Catherine Person Gallery, Seattle WA.
1999 The Mamacitas – LEAD Gallery, Seattle WA
Installation – Northwest Mystics – Museum of Glass, Tacoma WA
1996 Ice Stars – Milky Gallery, Seattle WA.
1995 Solo Exhibition: Timothy Siciliano - Las Vegas Show Babies LEAD Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 The Garden of Virtue and Vice (Lannan Foundation Grant), COCA, Seattle WA.
1994 Work by Timothy Siciliano - University of San Diego NEA Exhibition
New York Times Illustrator 1884-1986
Performances at White Columns, The Mudd Club, Club 57, Just Above Midtown Downtown

Born in 1958 in Seattle, Washington, Timothy Siciliano began his art career in New York City in 1982, gaining recognition for surreal graphic drawings and “live drawing” performances with partner Payton Wilkinson at seminal downtown venues including Club 57, The Mudd Club, and Just Above Midtown; this work was later featured in MoMA’s 2018 CLUB 57 retrospective. After returning to Seattle in the late 1980s following Wilkinson’s death from AIDS, Siciliano shifted to non-performance work, creating intricately drawn, illuminated paper shrines that earned an NEA fellowship in 1992 and culminated in the installation The Garden of Virtue and Vice at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. Following a decade-long hiatus, he reemerged with painting and drawing projects such as Dongguan Highways Hot Pink (2010) and Donna Summer in Syria (2013), addressing environmental, political, and cultural tensions, and later presented his largest solo exhibition, Slouching Towards Possible Enlightenment (2021). His multidisciplinary practice explores sexuality, power, nature, war, and duality, informed by influences ranging from Richard Lindner and Niki de Saint Phalle to Jean Genet and Haruki Murakami. Currently based between Seattle and Mexico City, Siciliano has collaborated with master printer Daniel Flores in Oaxaca on etched and silkscreened prints included in the current 2025 exhibition, The Lunch Before the Détente at studio e. His work is currently shown at studio e and represented by El Tingolado Gráfico.