Background
HEAD, Tim was born on October 22, 1946 in London. Son of Percy Head and Muriel Head.
HEAD, Tim was born on October 22, 1946 in London. Son of Percy Head and Muriel Head.
Born in London, He studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where his teachers included Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson. He studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan at Saint Martin"s School of Art, London, in 1969.
at Museum of Modem Art, Oxford 1972, Gallery House, London 1973, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Garage Gallery, London 1974, Rowan Gallery, London 1975, 1976, 1978, Amolfini Gallery, Bristol 1975, Anthony Stokes Gallery, London 1977, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Henie-Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo 1978, I.C.A., Brisbane, Paola Betti Gallery, Milan, Serpentine Gallery, London, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow 1979, Gallery Bama, Paris, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 1980, Locus Solus, Genoa 1981, Province Museum, Hasselt 1983, I.C.A., London 1985, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1986; numerous group exhibitions in Milan, Kassel, Paris, Brussels, Sydney, New York, Vienna, London, Pennsylvania, Basle, Regensburg, Leeds, Montreal and Swansea; Gulbenkian Foundation Visual ArtsHis contemporary students included Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry. In 1968 he went to New York City where he worked as an assistant to Claes Oldenburg, and met Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, John Cale and others In 1971 he worked as an assistant to Robert Morris on his Tate Gallery show.
From 1971 to 1979 he taught at Goldsmiths College, 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).
International Cooperation Administration, 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).
And "Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-1975", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2000).
Married Vivian Katz in 1973.