About Tim Brown

Tim Brown, a native of Tulsa,Oklahoma, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  

As an individual artist, Brown works as an installation artist, sculptor and cartoonist who has shown in Los Angeles, Houston, Austin, Manila, Chicago, and Kansas City. He has been teaching at the collegiate level since 2015, holding positions at the Kansas City Art Institute, University of Missouri Kansas City, and Johnson County Community College.

In 2006, Brown co-founded Okay Mountain, an artist collective and gallery in Austin, Texas.  Since the inception of the gallery, which produced over fifty exhibitions in its five years of existence, the collective has shown as an an art making entity in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Houston, and Miami, Florida.  In 2009, Okay Mountain won the Pulse Prize and the People's Choice award at the Pulse Art Fair during Art Basel, Miami.  The collective is represented by Mark Moore Projects in Culver City, CA.

In his spare time, he leads the Austin-based shoegaze rock band The Hidden Persuaders.