About the artist

Tim Clifford is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. In sculpture, paintings and drawings his work examines the physical, historical, and political meaning of the vernacular objects and landscape of the United States.  Recent projects reflect on the intersection of aesthetics and violence, and the visual symbols of loss, mourning and grief.

Clifford's first New York solo exhibition Threat Assessment was shown at Howl Happening: An Arturo Vega Project, in 2015-16. His work has been seen at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Smack Mellon, the historic Greenwood Cemetery Chapel in Brooklyn. Earlier exhibitions include Socrates Sculpture Park; High Desert Test Sites 5 in Joshua Tree, California; and Galerie von Bartha, Basel.

Since 2016, Clifford has been a member of Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks. In 2017, Clifford was artist-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT. In 2014–15 he participated in the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace program. He received an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park in 2007 and a NYFA fellowship in sculpture in 2001. He received his M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York and his B.A. from Bard College.

In addition to his work as an artist, Clifford is a co-author, with Jack Flam and Katy Rogers, of Robert Motherwell: 100 Years (Skira Press, 2015) and Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, 3 vol. ( Yale University Press; 2012). In 2015–16, he was the guest curator of Robert Motherwell: A Centennial Celebration,  an exhibition of archival documents drawn from the Archives of American Art at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery in the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

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