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TIM HEAD: SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

Born London 1946

Represented by Parafin

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

ASSISTING

Assistant to Claes Oldenburg, New York 1968
Assistant to Robert Morris, The Tate Gallery, London 1971

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Parafin, London, 2014
Modern Art Oxford, 2013
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 Small Infinite', John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, 2014
William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney, 2014
X Marks The Bokship, London, 2014
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2014
'The Edge of Painting', The Piper Gallery, London, 2013
Trinity Contemporary, London, 2013
Cafe Gallery, London, 2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, 2012
'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 COMMISSIONS

Passing Light commission by the London Sinfonietta for a collaboration between composer Bryn Harrison and artist Tim Head. Performance with digital projection, Spitalfields Music Festival, Rich Mix, London 2014
Artist in Restaurant, Pied a Terre, London 2013-14
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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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 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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TEACHING

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

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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