Timothy Bair

Timothy Bair is a Taiwanese quadriplegic artist who has exhibited internationally and most recently completed a residency at the prestigious Silver Arts artist residency. His work, in part disability activism, uses the experience of living as a disabled person as fodder for his work, interrogating ableism within the art world, and the world at large. Through his practice, Timothy unpacks preconceived notions of what it means to be a disabled person in an "able-bodied world".

And by utilizing the lyrical nature of image making, Bair translates the unique crip experience into a universal language, made accessible to anyone—disabled or not. His work is both powerful, tender and crucially important. As Timothy says: "When it is all said and done, I hope to have left a smoother path for future artists and creatives with disabilities." Aside from working in the studio, in the past three years, Timothy has also worked as a disability consultant. Having assisted and advised in transforming more than 25 art galleries and art spaces in New York and Taiwan in becoming handicap accessible.