A matter of time

Tom Ford ad, 2007
Mudbath, 2006
Minter’s appearance in the Biennial boosted her to a whole new level. Her work appeared on the cover of the influential art-world quarterly Parkett. Tom Ford asked her to create images for an ad campaign for his fall/winter 2007 collection, the Gap commissioned her to design a T-shirt as part of its benefit project for the Whitney Museum, and she found a new berth at the swank Salon 94 gallery uptown. Her show there last year sold out, and now museums are on a waiting list for her work. For the coming year, she’s getting ready for shows at Salon 94 and Regen Projects in L.A. And of course, she crafted this exclusive cover for TONY. She’s happy, but philosophical. “I’m always hungry,” she says. “Success brings you a lot of things, but it can be as difficult to deal with as failure. The most important thing is to always protect the art.”