Tim Head

Tim Head (* 1946 in London ) is a British installation artist , painter, graphic artist and photographer.

Life

Tim Head studied from 1965 to 1969 with Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne . In 1968 he went to New York City , where he became an assistant to Claes Oldenburg and met Robert Smithson , Richard Serra , Eva Hesse , Sol LeWitt and John Cale, among others . In 1969 he received his Masters in Sculpture from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with Barry Flanagan . In 1971 Tim became Head Assistant at Robert Morris and in the same year a professor at Goldsmiths, University of London , where he remained until 1979. From 1976 to 2011 he taught at the Slade School of Fine Art .

Tim Head initially worked in the field of installation, slide projections and video and turned to painting and photography in the early 1980s. Head became known for innovative use of the Cibachrome and Scanachrome processes.

Exhibitions

Head had his first solo exhibition at the age of 26 at the Museum Modern Art in Oxford. Further exhibitions followed in 1974 and 1992 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. In 1980 he and Nicholas Pope organized the British Pavilion at the 39th Venice Biennale . Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London followed in 1985 and in 1995 at the Kunstverein Freiburg , Kunstverein Heilbronn , Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken and the Kunstverein Braunschweig . In London he exhibited at The drawing Gallery in 2006 , the Matthew Bown Gallery in 2007 and the Wilkinson Gallery in 2011 .

Head was invited to participate in various group exhibitions. In 1977 he was represented with the installation “Circuits” at documenta 6 in Kassel . 1980 “British Art Now: An American Perspective”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London and 2000 at the exhibition “Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain” 1965–75, Whitechapel Art Gallery , London.

Awards

• 2006–2007 Artist's Residency, Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
• 2006 SciArt Award, The Wellcome Trust
• 1987 1st Prize, John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool, UK
• 1985 Elephant Trust Award
• 1977–1978 Fellowship at Clare Hall and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, 1977–78 Kettle's Yard
• 1975 Gulbenkian Foundation for Fine Arts

literature

• Model Futures, Tim Head, 1998 ISBN 978-0-90526-3-304
• Tim Head: Catalog of an Exhibition Held at British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 1980 ISBN 978-0-90161-8-283

Web links

Website Tim Head

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tate: Tim Head , accessed October 18, 2014.
2. ^ Osterwalder's Art Office , accessed on October 19, 2014.
3. ↑ Tate: Tim Head Artist Biography , accessed October 19, 2014.
4. ↑ wellcome trust , accessed on October 26, 2014 (English).
5. ↑ Tim Head: Raw Material , accessed October 26, 2014.