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Tim Head (born 1946) is a British artist. A painter, photographer and sculptor, he employs mixed media.
Head worked on exhibition layout at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in summer 1967, for Niki de Saint Phalle. (1983). 9780333307731, Macmillan. ISBN 9780333307731 The following year he went to New York City, where he worked as a summer assistant to Claes Oldenburg. He met Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, John Cale and others. Head attended Saint Martin's School of Art, London, in 1969–1970; he studied on the Advanced Sculpture Course run by Barry Flanagan.
In 1971 he worked as an assistant to Robert Morris on his Tate Gallery show. He then taught at Goldsmiths College, London, from 1971 to 1979. He taught at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1976 to 2011.
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 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; and The Indiscipline of Painting Tate St. Ives touring to Warwick Art Centre (2011/12).
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