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[[File:Tim Cantor.jpg|thumb|alt=alt text|Tim Cantor at his October 9, 2009 Art Show in [[San Diego]]]]
'''Tim Cantor''' (born August 10, 1969) is an American self-taught [[
==Works==
Tim Cantor paints in oils on a variety of different surfaces. He learned on his own since early childhood, almost exclusively in oils.
Many of his works are based on his own fictional and non-fictional stories and poetry. These stories, he says, mostly come to him during the long process of creating the paintings.
[[File:AMS galleryphotoams2.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Alt text|Tim Cantor Gallery [[Amsterdam]]]]
==Exhibitions==
Tim Cantor began showing his paintings professionally at the age of 15 when he was honored with the [[Bank of America]] achievement in arts award. At his first show, [[Senator Barbara Boxer]] presented the award and then chose a painting to hang in the [[White House]]. The early publicity created a demand for his work. After finishing high school in Marin County, he began traveling and exhibiting his paintings in galleries and open-air events throughout the Western United States. After seven years on the road he decided to display his paintings exclusively in fine art galleries and then in 2000, Tim Cantor established Ashby Galleries. Ashby Galleries and Ashby and Alfred publications are devoted exclusively to Tim Cantor and display his work year-round.
Tim Cantor and his artwork
In 2016,
In the winter of 2019, The Tim Cantor Gallery of Amsterdam, located in a 17th-century building in the core of Amsterdam, opened with has a collection of Cantor's works.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timcantor.com/tim-cantor-galleries-ams.html|title = TIM CANTOR GALLERIES AMS | Tim Cantor}}</ref> On March 17, 2021, Tim Cantor, in a partnership with Terra Virtua ltd the world's first fully-immersive entertainment platform, took six of his traditional oil paintings and enhanced them using animation techniques to bring them to life.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2021-03-17 |title=Live NFT Art Exhibition With World-Famous Imagine Dragons Artist Tim Cantor |url=https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/101001/live-nft-art-exhibition-with-world-famous-imagine-dragons-artist-tim/ |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=ResponseSource Press Release Wire}}</ref>
Spring 2021 brought a Live NFT Art Exhibition with Artist Tim Cantor. It was the first-ever live virtual reality exhibition with Tim Cantor who is the man behind the [[Imagine Dragons]] 2014 album, stage designs and video, 'SHOTS'.<ref name=":0" />
==Publications and media==
Harvest Productions, in 2011, released a releasing a short film looking at the Art of Tim Cantor.<ref>[http://harvestpro.com/blog/the-art-of-tim-cantor-celebrating-10-years-at-ashby-galleries/ Harvest Pro.com]</ref> This film features interviews with Tim and Amy Cantor, as well as some of his closest collectors.
In June 2011, Tim Cantor and his piece "Beauty's Privilege" were featured on the cover of San Diego's City Beat Magazine. The article discusses his gallery in San Diego as well as his work on a new book and a new collection of art and writings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-9156-tim-cantor.html|title=Tim Cantor|work=sdcitybeat.com}}</ref>
Tim Cantor is currently (January 2012) the featured artist on the website of Fear & Trembling Productions. Fear & Trembling Productions is a not-for-profit company whose goal is to work with a select group of talented singer/songwriters as their Artist Development Manager to help them gain recognition by the recording industry. They have recognized Tim Cantor's gallery due to the fact that in his galleries Tim uses soothing background music to allow each viewer of his art to absorb and interpret the beauty of his art undisturbed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fear-trembling.com/featured/artist|title=Artist|work=fear-trembling.com}}</ref>
On November 3, 2012, over 3000 people attended Tim Cantor's 2nd major book release and exhibition of new works at his Gaslamp Gallery in [[San Diego]]. His new book is titled, "Tim Cantor, Paintings & Writings Book II".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timcantor.com/New%20Site-11/November3_BookStandard1.htm|title=T i m c a n t o r|work=timcantor.com}}</ref>
In 2015, Tim Cantor’s work was featured in the Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors North American, European and Asian tours.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/2077584/imagine-dragons-shots-video/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215043934/http://www.mtv.com/news/2077584/imagine-dragons-shots-video/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 15, 2015|title=Watch Imagine Dragons' Crazy Beautiful 'Shots' Video, Where They Transform Into Living Paintings|work=MTV News}}</ref>
Recording Artist [[Bebe Rexha]] features Tim Cantor Art in her video for her song "Sabotage" from her Album Better Mistakes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6D_KrdABo|title=Watch Bebe Recha - Sabotage Official Music Video}}</ref>
[[Evanescence]] features Tim Cantor Art in their video for their song "Across the Universe" .<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4nwKQrne0s|title=Watch Evanescence - Across the Universe Official Music Video}}</ref>
==Projects==
In May 2010, Tim Cantor was asked to participate in a project called Art Meets Fashion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artmeetsfashion.org/|title=Index of /|work=artmeetsfashion.org}}</ref> In partnership with the San Diego Visual Arts Network (SDVAN)
Tim and international fashion designer, [[Gordana Gehlhausen]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shopgoga.com/|title=Goga by Gordana|work=shopgoga.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203061720/http://www.shopgoga.com/|archivedate=2011-02-03}}</ref> have been inspired to create works of art which express an emotional impression of loss, love, and ultimately- finding beauty in the midst of tragedy and adversity.<ref>[http://www.zhibit.org/beautysprivilege Beauty's Privilege - Art Meets Fashion]</ref> Along with Gordana, Tim will be working with David Hartig, a photographer who<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.davidhartig.com/|title=San Diego Commercial Photographers Architectural Lifestyle Advertising Photography|work=davidhartig.com}}</ref> will document the various steps involved to nurture an idea into a work of art and Denise Bonaimo (educator/ visual artist)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bonaimo.com/|title=Denise Bonaimo Sarram|work=bonaimo.com}}</ref> will create a lesson plan that focuses on drawing from life experiences as the inspiration to create works of art with emotion.
This project continued through 2011<ref>[http://www.artmeetsfashion.org/pres Art Meets Fashion Press Calendar]</ref> and included fashion shows and exhibitions of the team's final projects including a VIP fashion show at [[San Diego International Airport]] in April 2011.<ref>[http://www.san.org/documents/Airport_Art_Master_Plan.pdf San Diego International Airport/ Art Master Plan]</ref> The Art Meets Fashion Event hosted a VIP fashion show on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at the San Diego International Airport Series of independent exhibitions for each of the teams 3 hubs including NTC Promenade at Liberty Station, North Park and downtown San Diego. Beauty's Privilege project was exhibited at Shop Goga in downtown San Diego in April 2011.
On September 23, 2014, Cantor began working with [[Imagine Dragons]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.imaginedragonsmusic.com/ |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Imagine Dragons |language=en-US}}</ref> for their second studio album, ''[[Smoke + Mirrors]]''. After meeting the band and becoming inspired by the music and lyrics of their upcoming single, Tim Cantor created artworks for each song of the album.<ref>[https://www.imaginedragonsmusic.com/news/see-all-song-art-smoke-mirrors-artist-tim-cantor-13211 See All The Song Art from Smoke + Mirrors by Artist Tim Cantor]</ref> All three singles released – "[[I Bet My Life (Imagine Dragons song)|I Bet My Life]]", "[[Gold (Imagine Dragons song)|Gold]]", and "[[Shots (Imagine Dragons song)|Shots]]" – feature the paintings as cover art. The paintings are included in the limited edition of the album.<ref>[https://www.imaginedragonsmusic.com/news/smoke-mirrors-limited-edition-deluxe-artwork-fan-pack-8961 Smoke + Mirrors: Limited Edition, Deluxe Artwork Fan Pack]</ref> The artworks make appearance in the band's music video of "Shots".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musictimes.com/articles/28356/20150212/imagine-dragons-shots-music-video-tim-cantor-smoke-mirrors-release-date-watch.htm|title=Imagine Dragons 'Shots' Music Video Brings Surrealist Artist Tim Cantor's Paintings to Life Ahead of 'Smoke + Mirrors' Release Date [WATCH]|work=Music Times|date=12 February 2015}}</ref>
In June 2016 Tim's Art was exhibited at the AFA Gallery in SOHO New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFA Gallery |url=https://www.afanyc.com/ |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=AFA Gallery |language=en-US}}</ref> "Tim Cantor: Sweet Favour & Fiend" at AFA was a showing of Tim's oil paintings which offered a disquieting remix of historical Renaissance canvases.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-06-13 |title=Editors' Picks: 9 Art Events in New York |url=https://news.artnet.com/market/editors-picks-9-art-events-new-york-517553 |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref>
In March 2021 Tim Cantor partnered with Terra Virtua - the world’s first fully immersive digital collectibles platform announces today an exclusive partnership with world-famous artist, Tim Cantor, which will see six of Tim’s incredible oil paintings brought to life through animation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/100956/world-famous-fine-artist-tim-cantor-to-join-the-growing-digital/|title=Partnership with Terra Virtua}}</ref>
In March 2021 Tim Cantor also joined the Digital Arts NFTs Space. According to a press release shared with Altcoin Buzz, Tim Cantor has enlisted the support of top digital collectible firm Terra Virtua with plans to transform six of his oil paintings into digital art pieces (NFTs). Terra Virtua is known as the first-ever immersive digital collectible platform in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.altcoinbuzz.io/cryptocurrency-news/partnerships/tim-cantor-joins-the-digital-art-nfts-space/|title=Tim Cantor Joins The Digital Art NFTs Space}}</ref> In November 2021 Tim Cantor’s En Pointe is transformed into an NFT for the first time with Terra Virtua.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.terravirtua.io/collecting/tim-cantors-en-pointe-is-transformed-into-an-nft/|title=Tim Cantor’s En Pointe is transformed into an NFT for the first time with Terra Virtua}}</ref>
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==External links==
* [http://www.timcantor.com/ The Art Of Tim Cantor Official Website]
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