- Also known as
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Tim Head
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primary name: Head, Tim
- Details
- individual; sculptor/medallist; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1946-
- Biography
- Sculptor, draughtsman and installation artist; born in London, studied at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1965-69, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson; to New York 1968 where he worked as an assistant to Claes Oldenburg, and met Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, John Cage and others; studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan at St Martin's School of Art, London, 1969; worked as an assistant to Robert Morris on his Tate Gallery show 1971; taught at Goldsmiths College, London and Slade School of Art 1971-79; was artist in residence at Clare Hall and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge1977-78; awarded First Prize in the 15th John Moores Exhibition 1987; lived and worked in London.
Head has exhibited widely internationally. His solo shows include MoMA, Oxford (1972); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1974 and 1992); British Pavilion, Venice Biennale (1980); ICA, London (1985); and Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, and touring (1995). He has taken part in group shows including 'Documenta 6', Kassel (1977); 'British Art Now: An American Perspective', Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Royal Academy, London (1980); 'The British Art Show', Arts Council Tour (1984); 'Gambler', Building One, London (1990); and 'Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2000).
- Bibliography
- Saur.
Marco Livingstone, 'Tim Head', (exh.cat.) Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 11 Dec.1992-28 Feb 1993, with artist's personal biography (major retrospective)
'Tim Head: Raw Material', (exh.cat.), with essays by Michael Bracewell and Ian Hunt and an interview with the artist by Sotiris Kyriacou, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield (21 Nov.2009-9 Jan.2010) and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (20 March-9 May 2010).
