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TIM HEAD: SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

SUMMARY

Tim Head was born in 1946 in London. He studied at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. In 1968 he went to New York where he worked as an assistant to Claes Oldenburg. He studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan at St Martin's School of Art, London, in 1969. In 1971 he worked as an assistant to Robert Morris on his Tate Gallery show. In 1987 Head was awarded First Prize in the 15th John Moores Exhibition.

- Ben Tufnell © Tate Publishing 2003

EDUCATION

St Martin's School of Art, London, Postgraduate Diploma in Sculpture, 1969-70
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, BA Honours, Fine Art, 1965-69

TEACHING

Slade School of Fine Art, Universtity College London, 1976-2011
Goldsmiths College School of Art, University of London, 1971-79

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES

Artist's Residency, Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK, 2006-7
SciArt Award, The Wellcome Trust, 2006
First Prize, John Moores 15th Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 1987
Elephant Trust Award, 1985
Fellowship at Clare Hall and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, 1977-78
Gulbenkian Foundation Visual Arts Award, 1975

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

Designs for Liberty Art Fabrics, Liberty, London, 2011
Open Field and Light Cycle, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK, 2008
Float, digital projection for 'Light Up Queen Street', Corporation of London, 2005-6
Artwork for billboard poster for various London Underground stations, Becks Beer Art Campaign, 2005
A Hard Day's Night, CD-ROM, edition 1000. Commissioned by eyestorm.com, 2000
Artistic Director for The Eurythmics Peacetour, touring worldwide, 1999
Light Rain, Artezium Arts and Media Centre, Luton, UK, permanent work, 1998
Floor Design, Science Museum, London, 1995
Film for Gavin Bryars concert, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and European tour, 1993-94
Sculpture commission, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, UK, 1985
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Arts Council of Great Britain
The British Council Collection
The British Museum, London
The Gulbenkian Foundation, London
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tate Gallery, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Wilkinson Gallery, London, 2011
'Raw Material', Huddersfield Art Gallery; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, 2009-10
Matthew Bown Gallery, London, 2007
The Drawing Gallery, London, 2006
Kunstverein Freiburg; Kunstverein Heilbronn; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 1995
City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, 1993
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1992
'The Tyranny of Reason', ICA, London, 1985
British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1980
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, 1972
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

'The Indiscipline of Painting', Tate St Ives, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 2011-12
'Broken Stillness', Salisbury Arts Centre, IDO Gallery, ISEA 2011, Istanbul, 2011
'Signs of a Struggle, Photography in the Wake of Post Modernism', V&A Museum, London, 2011
'Room Divider', Wilkinson Gallery, London, 2010
'John Moores Prizewinners 1957-2006', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 2008-9
'C'est Arrivé Demain', Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France, 2003-4
'Days Like These', Tate Triennial exhibition of contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London, 2003
'Live in Your Head: concept and experiment in Britain 1965-75', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2000-1
'Close Up', Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad and Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, 2000-1
'Gambler', Building One, London, 1990
'Seven Obsessions', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1990
'Sculpture Alternatives - Aspects of Photography and Sculpture in Britain 1965-1982', Tate Gallery, London, 1985
'Documenta VI', Kassel, Germany, 1978
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Briers, David, 'Tim Head: Raw Material', Art Monthly, no.333, February 2010
Tufnell, Ben, 'Tim Head', Days Like These: Tate Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art 2003, Tate Publishing, 2003
Lapp, Axel, 'Tim Head: Osterwalder's Art Office, Hamburg, Germany', Art Monthly, no.262, December-January 2002-3
Berg, Stephan, 'In the Underworld of the Zombies', Tim Head, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, 1995
Livingstone, Marco, 'Return of the Body-Snatcher', Tim Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1992
Cooke, Lynne, 'Mysterious Coincidences', Artscribe, no.69, May 1988
Searle, Adrian, 'Tim Head', Artforum, June 1988
Head, Tim, 'Preface', The Tyranny of Reason, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1985
Lynton, Norbert, 'Tim Head', Tim Head, British Pavilion, XXXIXth Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 1980
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