BORN
New Haven, Connecticut 1969
EDUCATION
2006 M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
1991 B.A., Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2015
Threat Assessment, Howl Happening, New York (catalog)
2003
Tim Clifford, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
1999
The Neighborhood I Grew Up In Buried Underground, Sandy Hook, CT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
FLOW 16, Randall's Island Park, NY (public art commission)
2015
Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum, NY (catalog)
PANIC as You See FIT, Gallery M Squared, Houston, TX
Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2014
William F. Mangels: Amusing the Masses on Coney Island, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
NEVER RECORDS @ the site of the former Tower Records, 4th & Bway, NY, NY (organized by Ted Riederer as part of Never Can Say Goodbye, a project curated by No Longer Empty)
Hope-A-Holic, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island
2009
Central and Remote, dailyoperation.org,Long Island City (curated by Jon Lutz)
Premier Exhibition, Glenwood Arts Center, Glenwood, NY
2008
Picturing America, SAC Gallery, SUNY-Stonybrook, Stonybrook, NY
2007
EAF07: Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City (catalog)
2006
High Desert Test Sites 5, Joshua Tree, CA (catalog)
Orion’s Shorts, Landers, CA
Space of Transmission, ConTemp @299, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Creative, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn
A Delicate Arrangement: SVA Class of 2006 , David Zwirner Gallery, New York (curated by Dan Cameron)
Baditüde: SVA Theses exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, (selected by Bob Nickas)
2005
The Fascination with the Mechanical, Galerie Von Bartha, Basel Art Fair 05 (catalog)
Landscapes: Found, Imagined, and Constructed, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Becoming Contemporary, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT
2004
Marriage, SAC Gallery at SUNY-Stonybrook, NY (curated by Keith Miller)
2003
Underlined, Center Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY
subject space, TURF at Felissimo Design House (curated by Jane Simon), New York
On/Of Paper 2, Clyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
2002
From the Rooftops: A Bird’s Eye View, Gallery 5, Rock Hill, SC
Drawings for Peace, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
2001
Making the Making, Apex Art, New York (curated by Charles Goldman)
1996
Location/Location, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Cozy: Notions of Domesticity and Safety, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Vacant Lots, Bewegung Gallery, San Francisco (ex. cat)
1993
Three Boys In Space: Three Installations, Five Day Forecast, San Francisco
I’m Useless To The Culture but God Loves Me, Five Day Forecast, San Francisco
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
Seibert, Brian, "Responding to Tragedy with Dance and Music," New York Times, June 16, 2016, C3
McNicholas, Darragh, “Tim Clifford: Threat Assessment,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2016
2015
Lehrer, Adam. “Artist Tim Clifford Explores Gun Violence and the Marketing of Fear at Howl! Happening, FORBES.COM, December 11, 2015
"Emerging Artists Take the Bronx," Time Out New York, June 15, 2015 (illus.)
2014
Greenberger, Alex, "Tim Clifford on his Stark Depictions of Violence," Artnews.com/news, October 6, 2014
2007
Starita, Angela, “Socratic Dialogues,” The Architect’s Newspaper, October 3, p. 28
Taubman, Lara, “HDTS5 and Interstate”, Sculpture, Jan/Feb 2007, Vol.26, No 1.
2005
The Fascination With the Mechanical, Galerie Von Bartha, 2005 (essay by Astrid Bextimoller)
2002
Brickman, David. “Dare to Enter,” Metroland, Albany, NY, September 25, 2003
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2017
Artist in Residence, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
2016
FLOW.16, Commission for Public Sculpture, sponsored by the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Randall's Island Park Alliance and Made Event
2015
Artist in the Marketplace 35, Bronx Museum, NY
2007
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park
2001
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture
Other
Author:
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell: 100 Years, Skira Press: 2015
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2012
Till Freiwald, Galerie Margit Haupt, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2005
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