Illustrator and portrait painter Tim O'Brien has a knack for pop culture, often infusing it into artistic visions that simultaneously reveal its strangeness and familiarity. His work has been published most notably in TIME Magazine as well as The Nation, Bloomberg Businessweek, Der Spiegel (Germany), Stern (Germany), Telegraph (UK), Zeit magazine (Germany), Society (France), Smithsonian Magazine, GQ, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly, Business Week, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, PlanSponsor, National Geographic, Playboy, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Texas Monthly, Mother Jones, Alta, Dial, Harper Collins, Farrar Strauss, and Giroux, Penguin, Times Books, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, TOR, Viking, Macmillan, Warner, Pentagram, The Peace Corps, and the United States Postal Service.

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, Spectrum, and the Art Directors Club, wherein, in 2019, he won all top cube prizes; Bronze, Silver, and Gold for his Trump Time Covers. Tim’s work is included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, and is a winner of the prestigious Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators. Tim O'Brien was the president of the Society of Illustrators from 2014-2022, the second-longest tenure after Charles Dana Gibson.

His numerous speaking engagements include The United Nations, The Norman Rockwell Museum, The Society of Illustrators, Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts, Pratt, Rhode Island School of Design, California College of the Arts, Brigham Young University, Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Tim is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and frequently lectures across the country and Europe.

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