Timothy Briner

Timothy Briner (b. 1981, Chesterton, Indiana) is a New York–based photographer and artist whose work moves between documentary, conceptual, and process-based practices. Through sustained observation and material inquiry, his work explores transformation, attachment, and the lingering charge of everyday spaces and materials.

His year-long series “Boonville,” made while living in six American towns sharing the same name, was exhibited at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in 2010. Subsequent bodies of work include “Blasted Trees and Hollering Monsters,” an exploration of Coney Island post Hurricane Sandy, and “Waiting for a Ghost,” made during the final eight days of his grandmother’s life in hospice care. He is currently developing a long-term body of work centered on intimacy, shared memory, and the material afterlife of lived space, tracing how absent spaces and familiar objects persist as sites of projection and grief.

Briner’s work is held in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, and Museum of the City of New York. He has taught at the College of Staten Island for the past six years and received an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from Bard College. Briner lives in Brooklyn with his partner, their daughter and two dogs.