Tim Tate is co-founder of the Washington Glass Studio in Washington, DC. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Among other accolades, Tate is the recipient of a Virginia Groot Foundation award for sculpture and a James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist Award.
Spending many years championing LGTBQ rights in all forms, Tate Identifies as a Queer Man. He founded the Triangle Artist Group in the early 90’s and helped curate the very first HIV+ art show for the organization. He was also chair of the first Art Against Aids charity event in Washington, DC, and designed the New Orleans Aids Monument.
Tate received his Fulbright Award from Sunderland, University in England in 2012. In 2018 he was asked to speak at Yale University on the topic of Craft and Conflict by Glenn Adamson, where he represented the Queer community and its history of art activism.
Participating in multiple iterations of Glasstress, with special focus on the exhibition with Ai Wei Wei and Vic Muniz during the 2019 Venice Biennale and the Boca Raton Museum Glasstress show in Jan. 2021, Tate has exhibited extensively worldwide. In October 2021 Tate exhibited at the Hermitage, in St. Petersburg, Russia.