BFA- Paier College of Art. New Haven, CT., 1987

Tim O’Brien is an illustrator and portrait painter who's intricately detailed and imaginative illustrations have been published most notably in TIME Magazine as well as Newsweek, TV Guide, The Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, National Geographic, Playboy, Penthouse, Premier, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Worth, Avon Books, Ballentine, Dial, Harper Collins, Penguin, Times Books, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Viking, Warner, and many others.

Tim has received multiple awards and recognitions from the Society of Illustrators in New York and Los Angeles, Graphis, Print, Communication Arts Magazine, the Society of Publication Designers, American Illustration, and the Art Director’s Club.Tim has 7 paintings in the collection of the National Gallery, Washington, DC, and he is the youngest artist included in the recent update of “The Illustrator in America, 1880-2000.”

• Chairman of the Education Committee and member of the
Executive Committee of the Society of Illustrators, New York.
• Founding Member of the Illustrators’ Partnership of America.
• Education Chairman of the 2003 Illustration Conference in
Philadelphia.

His numerous speaking engagements include The Norman Rockwell Museum, The Society of Illustrators, Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts, Pratt, Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of the Arts.

Tim lives in Prospect Park South in Brooklyn New York with his wife Elizabeth Parisi, and their precocious son, Cassius Liam.