MICHAEL TIMPSON

Born 1951, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1984-85      Centerfor Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology,Cambridge, M.A.

 

1975-79      MassachusettsCollege of Art, Boston, M.A., B.F.A.

 

1972-73      UniversityCollege, Dublin, Ireland – Archeology and History of

EuropeanArt

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2002           MeloncholyBaby, the Armory Show 2002

 

2001           LutzTeutloff Gallery, at Parochial Kirche, Berlin, Germany

                  It Happened One Night,BeelitzHeilstalten, Germany

 

2000           LeavingCheyenne, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland

 

1999           Man Got Lonesome & Hankered,Waschhaus, Potsdam, Germany

I Can’t See Nuttin’ But Dust,Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

 

1998           But the Levee Was Dry, Installation -Performance, with Stefan Stux

Gallery/ Rebecca Cooper at The Art Exchange Fair, 2 Broadway, June 4-9

 

1997           Penetrate the Polished Surface, AMHawerkamp, Munster, Germany

 

1996           Who Blows Death’s Feather, Waschhaus,Potsdam, Germany

 

1995           Installation, C.U.B.A., Munster, Germany

                   Installation, Gallery Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany

InstallationKunstler Haus, Dortmund,Germany

 

1994           Installation, Experimental IntermediaGallery, Ghent, Belgium

 

1992           You’llHave to Be Put in a Bowl to Beg, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

 

1991           But the Ball is Lost and the Mallet Slipped,North Carolina Museum of

Art,Raleigh, NC

                   The Mickey Ruz, White Columns, New York,NY

 

1989           Up in the Bogs, Stux Gallery, New York,NY

 

1988           Bearingthe Rabbit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

Have You Gone with the Snows of Last Winter?,City Place, Boston, ME

 

1987           Installation,Mobius, Congress Street, Sound Art Festival, Boston, MA

A Peculiar Hunger,The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Be the Holy,Art Alliance Museum, Philadelphia, PA

 

1986           He Will Not Come and Still I Wait,Maudslay State Park,

Newburyport,MA

 

1985           Tell Me Why You Hurry So, Helen ShleinGallery, Boston, MA

                   I Speak That Am But a Fool, Bess CutlerGallery, New York, NY

 

1983            WhatBurns Where the Flame Used to Be, Helen Shlein Gallery,

Boston,MA

 

1981           NowDo You Know, part of “Three Installations,” DeCordova Museum,Lincoln, MA

 

1980           Ah But I Being Young and Foolish, HelenShlein Gallery, Boston, MA

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2001                  The Armory Show 2001 with Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

BeleitzHeilsttaten, Germany

 

2000            TheArmory Show 2000, with Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

                   Betweenthe Bridges, Waschaus, Potsdam, Germany

                   Photography,Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

 

1999           A Horse Man Rode Out, Inauguralexhibition, Stedelijk Museum

voorActuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), curated by Jan Hoet, Ghent, Belgium

                    TheBerlin Art Fair, with Lutz Teutloff, Germany

E VA,curated by Jan Hoet, Limerick, Ireland

 

1999            WhoFound Me, Contemporary Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

                   LimerickCity Gallery, Limerick, Ireland

                   The Armory Show 1999, with Stefan StuxGallery, New York

 

1998           Summer Review ‘98, Stefan Stux Gallery,New York

The Gramercy International Fair,with Stefan Stux Gallery, at the Chateau

Marmont,Los Angeles

 

1995           Eutopia, City of Potsdam, Germany

 

1993           Time Migration Identity, AtaturkCultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey

 

1992           Translation, Center for ContemporaryArt, Warsaw, Poland

 

1991           Update, White Columns, New York, NY

 

1989            Upin the Bogs, Project Installation, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

 

1987           Be the Boys, part of “Boston Now: Sculpture,” The Institute of

ContemporaryArt, Boston, MA

                   New England Now, Traveling Show

                   Drawings,Staviridis Gallery, Boston, MA

 

1984           BostonNow: Sculpture, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

 

1983         Not a Drum Was Heard Not a Funeral Beat,Brooklyn Art Museum

TriennialInvitation Exhibition, Brockton, MA

                Time Up (for Nana), Danforth Musuem,Framingham, MA

 

1982         Just Knock Three Times and Whisper Low,New Works, DeCordova

Museum,Lincoln, MA

 

 

COMMISSIONS

 

2001         CulturalCommission of Beelitz Heilstalten

2000         IrishArts Council and City of Limerick, Ireland

1999         Waschhaus,Stadt Brandenburg, Germany

                IrishArts Council and City of Limerick, Ireland

                LimerickCity Art Gallery, Ireland

1997         Penetrate the Polished Surface, AMHawerkamp, Munster, Germany

1996         Who Blows Death’s Feather, Waschhaus,Potsdam, Germany

1995         C.U.B.A.,Munster, Germany

                GalleryMoltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany

                Kunstler Haus, Dortmund, Germany

                Cityof Potsdam, Germany

1994         ExperimentalIntermedia Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

1993         AtaturkCultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey

1992         AldrichMuseum, Ridgefield, CT

1988         BowdoinCollege Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
1987         Mobius Theatre MassachusettsArts & Humanities Foundation,

Boston,MA

                Instituteof Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

                ArtAlliance Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1986         MassachusettsDepartment of the Environment

1984         Instituteof Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1983         Brockton Art Museum, Massachusetts Arts& Humanities Foundation,

Framingham,MA

1982         ExteriorWork at the DeCordova Museum, Massachusetts Arts &

HumanitiesFoundation, Lincoln, MA

1981         DeCordovaMuseum, Lincoln, MA

 

 

 

 

AWARDS

 

1987         NewWorks, Grant, MA Arts & Humanities at Mobius, Congress

Street,Boston, MA

1987         Fellow,Massachusetts Arts & Humanities Fellowship Program

1983         New Works, Grant, Massachusetts Arts& Humanities Foundation at Danforth Museum, Lincoln, MA

1982         New Works, Grant, Massachusetts Arts& Humanities Foundation at DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

 

 

VISITING ARTIST / TEACHINGAPPOINTMENTS

 

1994         Academyof Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

1994         Universityof Colorado, Boulder, CO

1991         Universityof North Carolina, Raleigh, NC

1989         BowdoinCollege, Brunswick, ME

1988         MassachusettsCollege of Art, Boston, MA

1987         Universityof Colorado, Boulder, CO

1986         Schoolof the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

András, Edit, “Visszaszámlálás az ezredvéghez III,”Müvészet, Hungary, October, 1998

Art in America, “Report from Boston,” May 1983

Art New England, July 1984, March 1983, December1980

Bonetti, David, Boston Phoenix, July 1987

Boston Citizen, October 190

Boston Globe, June 1983, June 1979

Boston Herald American, July 1984

Boston Ledger, July 1984

Boston Magazine, “Best of the Years,” August 1988

Boston Phoenix, July 1984

Boston Sunday Globe, July 194

Brenson, Michael, The New York Times, February 1985

Christian Science Monitor, June 1983

Circle, Irish Contemporary Art, Paul O’Reilly, Feb,2001

Concord Journal, October 1981, March 1981

Coolibri: “Godfather of Ambient,” June 1995

Dunne, Aidan, Irish Times, November 2000

Halperen, Max, News & Observers, Raleigh, NC,November 1991

Hall, Michael, D., “Art in Public,” Boston Review,June 1988

Hogrefe, Jeffrey. The New York Observer, January1999

Kiliszek, Joanne, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland,July 1992

Kimbel, Lucy, Voice, Warsaw, Poland, July 1992

KistersJurgenKolnerAnzeiger, July 1995

Koplos, Janet, Greenwich Times, November 1989

Koplos, Janet, Review, Art in America, July 1999

Levin, Kim, Village Voice, 1991, March 1989,February 1985

Monectain, Bernie, Brunswick Times Record, June1988

Montague, Cyrus, Art New England, 1986

New Bedford Standard Times, May 1978

New York Observer, Feb. 1, 1999, Jeffrey Hocrefe

Philadelphia Enquirer, March 1988

Portland Review, July 1988

Ranelli, Dan, Art New England, July 1988

Skrodzki, Wojciech, Zychie Waszawy, Warsaw, Poland,July 1992

Sourse, Ireland’s Photographic Review, John Duncan,March 2001

Sozanski, Edward J., Philadelphia Enquirer,February 1987

Stapen, Nancy, Boston Herald, March 1988, July 1987

Tarlow, Lois, “Profile,” Art New England, March1987

Taylor, Robert, Boston Globe, July 1987, March1981, August 1980

Temin, Christine, Boston Globe, March 1988;“Perspectives,” March 1988; “Profile,”

July 1987

Waz, “Sie Wischen Ihre Kunste,” June 1995

Wilson, Diedre, BerkshireEagle, March 1988

Yalin Guat, Savat Cevresi, Istanbul, March 1993

Zimmer, William, The New York Times, November 1989

 

 

 

 

COLLECTIONS

 

1991         NorthCarolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

1990         AldrichMuseum, Ridgefield, CT

1989         WalkerArt Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

1981         DeCordovaMuseum, Lincoln, MA