Tim Head

Tim Head (born London, 1946) is a British artist who works in mixed media, moving between painting, photography and sculpture. Raised in Yorkshire, he studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1965 to 1969, where Richard Hamilton was the teacher who inspired him, while the French-influenced approach of Kenneth Rowntree did not appeal to him. Among his fellow students was Bryan Ferry, later frontman of Roxy Music.

In 1967 he helped lay out an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam for Niki de Saint Phalle, and the following year he moved to New York, working as a summer assistant to Claes Oldenburg and meeting figures such as Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt. He studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London in 1969 and 1970, and in 1971 assisted Robert Morris with his Tate Gallery show. He taught at Goldsmiths College from 1971 to 1979 and at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1976 to 2011.

During the 1970s he contributed to the interest in projected art, making installations in which photographs of objects were projected onto those same objects and spaces. In 1987 he won the 15th John Moores Painting Prize with Cow Mutations. His 2002 video installation Treacherous Light used software to change colours pixel by pixel. He has exhibited widely abroad, with solo shows in Oxford, London, Venice and Freiburg, and group shows such as Documenta VI in Kassel (1977) and Live in Your Head at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (2000).