Grover Timothy Whiten RCA (born August 13, 1941) is an American-born Canadian artist who works in the areas of sculpture, drawing, performance art and multi-media installations, using a wide range of materials.
[7] In 1968, after completing military service as a commissioned Officer in the U.S. Army,[5] Whiten was successful in his application for a teaching position at York University in Toronto and was appointed to the Faculty of Arts in the Division of the Humanities.
[4] Whiten does not consider himself an artist but an "image maker who also creates cultural objects" and to this end, has studied Zen Buddhism and the Kabbala.
These objects, representing work and play, and which can include a broom, shovel, pickaxe, rolling pin, rocking horse, tricycle, and sled, are meant to take the viewer to another place.
Rather than the skull representing memento mori, Whiten feels that in his work, it is "concerned with the potential in life and a reverence for those who proceed us.
[3] In 1966, Whiten created a monumental sculpture (45 foot) erected in Jasper State Recreation Site, Oregon.
[24] In 1974, Whiten participated in a residency at Pennsylvania State University, College Park, PA, and was made a Fellow of the Arts & Humanistic Studies program.
[3] In 1989, Tim Whiten received the Distinguished Leadership Award, for Extraordinary Service to the Arts, from the American Biographical Institute.