Tim Head (born 1946) is a British
artist
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.
Biography
Born in
London
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, Head studied at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included
Richard Hamilton and
Ian Stephenson
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Roxy Music
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frontman
Bryan Ferry
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. In 1968 Head went to
New York City
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, where he worked as an assistant to
Claes Oldenburg
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, and met
Robert Smithson
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,
Richard Serra
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,
Eva Hesse
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,
Sol LeWitt
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LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...
,
John Cale
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and others. Head studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by
Barry Flanagan
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Biography
Barry Flanagan was born on 11 January 1941 in Prestatyn, North Wales. ...
at
Saint Martin's School of Art
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, London, in 1969. In 1971 he worked as an assistant to
Robert Morris on his
Tate Gallery
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show. From 1971 to 1979 he taught at
Goldsmiths College
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, London.
In 1987 Head won the 15th
John Moores Painting Prize
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for his work "Cow Mutations".
Head has exhibited widely internationally. His solo shows include
MoMA
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Places
; Ang ...
, Oxford (1972);
Whitechapel Art Gallery
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, London (1974 and 1992);
British Pavilion
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,
Venice Biennale
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(1980); ICA, London (1985); and Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, and touring (1995). He has taken part in group shows including ''Documenta VI'', 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);''Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75'', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2000);
[Kimmelman, Michael (29 April 2003). "Critic's Notebook; London Is Agog Over Art, Especially Saatchi's" '']The New York Times
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''; and ''The Indiscipline of Painting''
Tate St. Ives touring to Warwick Art Centre (2011/12).
References
External links
Tim Head WebsiteTim Headvia
British Council
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Tim Headvia Artcyclopedia
Tim Headvia Tate Collection
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English artists
English contemporary artists
Alumni of Newcastle University
1946 births
Living people
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London