Artist's CV

EDUCATION
2004  Master of Fine Arts (Research), COFA, University of NSW
1997  Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1), Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Tim Silver, Ten Cubed Collection, Melbourne

2011    
Everything in its right place, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2010    
Untitled (Sleep), MOP, Sydney

2009    
Rory and Coming Around Again, BREENSPACE, Sydney

2008     
The Tuvaluan Project, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2007     
The Tuvaluan Project, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

2006    
Killing me softly, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
It’s moments like these, Firstdraft, Sydney
Killing me softly, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

2004    
New Work, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney

2002    
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Baby portable player sound: silver and cassidy, Gitte Weise Gallery, Room 35, Sydney

2000    
Forward through the rear view mirror: Silver and Cassidy, Gitte Weise Gallery, Room 35, Sydney

2001    
Viole(n)t crumble, Gallery 4a, Sydney

1998    
Smart, CBD Gallery, Sydney (with A. Whelan)
Monochrome painting, Grey Area Art Space, Melbourne
Tim Silver and Cherine Fahd, Gallery 4A, Sydney

1997    
Side On Inc, Sydney

1996    
It’s moments like these, Firstdraft, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Seven Points (Part Two): Daniel Boyd, Newell Harry, Kate Mitchell, Tim Silver, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC
Relationshippal: Mitch Cairns, Susan Jacobs, Tim Silver, BREENSPACE, Sydney
We used to talk about love, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

2012
Look Closely Now, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Variable Truth, Gallery 4A, Sydney
Parallel Collisions, 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Interior, curated by Catherine Benz, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield

2011    
60th Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
Dis-covery: Ten Days on the Island, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart

2010    
Wax On, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney
New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2009    
I-lands, Kunsthallen brandts, Copenhagen, Denmark
I Walk the Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Diorama of the city: between site and space, Artspace, Sydney
Horror come Darkness, Macquarie University Gallery

2008   
Diorama of the city: between site and space, Tokyo Wonder Site
Neo Goth, University of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Seamless, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
Down to earth, Academy Gallery, Launceston

2007     
The independence project, Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur
Snap freeze: still life now, TarraWarra Museum of Art, VIC

2006   
Heaven on earth: dream on, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
Xmas specials, MOP, Sydney
Art, life and confusion: 47th October salon, Belgrade
Flaming youth, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
Poor Yorick, Virginia Wilson Art, Sydney
Random access, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, VIC
Swell, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW

2005     
New acquisitions in context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Selecta, Westspace, Melbourne
You’re so vain, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne

2004  
Autofetish, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Drawn out, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
Out of the blue, MOP, Sydney

2003    
Fair game, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square
The way things are, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Gulliver’s travels, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide;
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

2002  
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Gulliver’s travels, Cast, Hobart; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Ridoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier
Objection, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney

2001    
Objection, Physic’s Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
I’m an artist and I need ma sleep, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney
That was now, this is then, Gitte Weise Gallery, Room 35, Sydney

2000    
Do they know it’s Xmas time?, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney
Useby, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne

1999    
Dazzle, 1st Floor, Melbourne
A wolf in sheep’s clothing, 1st Floor, Melbourne

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2013    Natasha Bullock, 'We used to talk about love', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012    Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor, ‘Preface’ and Lisa Slade ‘The Redux’ in Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, pp.148, 282–283
Christopher Allen, ‘Elastic Conceits’, Weekend Australian, Visual Arts, 31 March, pp.14–15
Dylan Rainforth, ‘Wandering between the lines’, The Age, Visual Arts, 4 April, p.17
Christine Morrow, ‘Parallel Collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’, Art and Australia, vol. 49, no. 4, p.677
‘Tim Silver: Pictorial’, dasSUPERPAPER, 22, March, pp.22–27
John McDonald, ‘Infinite Possibilities’, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 10–11 March, pp.12–13
Melissa Pesa, ‘Parallel Collisions’, Art Almanac, March
Lisa Slade, ‘Insiders View’, Art Guide Despatches #1, 15 March
Michael Desmond, ‘Tim Silver: Look upon my works ye mighty’, NEW V2: selected recent acquisitions 2009–2011, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, pp.63–65
2011    Elizabeth Fortescue, ‘Portrait of the Artist as a very Old Man’, Daily Telegraph, 29 September, p.67
‘Artist Interview: Tim Silver’, Australian Art Collector Online, 21 September 2011
‘Degenerative Sculptures by Tim Silver’, Colossal Art and Design, blog feature, 18 September 2011
2009    Russell Storer, ‘Point and Shoot’, Broadsheet, March 2009
‘You’ve melted my head’, MX Magazine 16 September 2009
2008    Reuben Keehan, ‘The Tuvaluan Project’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2008
Ashley Crawford, ‘Found in Translation: Australian Art in Tokyo’, Photofile, no. 85, December 2008–March 2009
Ulanda Blair, ‘Tim Silver’, Art and Australia, vol. 26, no. 2, Summer 2008, p326
Judy Annear, ‘Photography and Place’, Broadsheet, vol. 37, September     2008, pp204–207
2007    Carmel Dwyer, ‘Tim Silver–50 Most Collectible’, Australian Art Collector, January–March 2007
Blair French, ‘Art/photography,’ Broadsheet, vol. 35, no. 4, 2007
Glenis Israel, Essential art: Victorian essential learning, John Wiley and Sons, Milton, Queensland, 2007
Michael Desmond, ‘Tim Silver: Killing me softly,’ Art Asia Pacific, no. 51, Winter 2007
Sunanda Creagh, ‘Open Gallery–Tim Silver,’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 12–13 August 2007
2006    Megan Backhouse, ‘Art around the galleries’, The Age, 16 September 2006
Tanya Peterson, ‘Killing me softly’, Killing me softly, GRANTPIRRIE, 2006
Edward Colless, ‘Kiss of the vampire,’ Australian Art Collector, July–September 2006
Andrew Frost, ‘Tim Silver–50 Most Collectible’, Australian Art Collector January–March 2006
2005    ‘Gallery by John Kaldor’, Art and Australia, vol. 42, Winter, no. 4, 2005
Indigo Clarke, ‘Beautiful impermanence’, Oyster Magazine, no. 56, 2005
Andrew Frost, ‘Tim Silver–50 Most Collectible’, Australian Art Collector, January–March 2005
2004    Renai Grace, ‘Drawn out,’ catalogue essay, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
Dominique Angeloro, ‘Hi-ho Silver,’ The Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16–22 July 2004
Peter Hill, ‘Alchemy of silver’, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10–11 July 2004
Stuart Koop, ‘New Work’, catalogue essay, GRANTPIRRIE, 2004
2003    Peter Hill, ‘Fame by other names’, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30–31 August 2003
Dominique Angeloro, ‘Critic’s picks’, Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22–28 August 2003
Russell Storer, ‘The art of falling apart’, Eyeline, no. 51, Winter 2003
Lenny Ann Low, ‘A big stretch’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23–24 August
Andrew Best, ‘Gulliver’s travels,’ Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 2, 2003
Jaqueline Milner, ‘Primavera’, Broadsheet, vol. 32, no. 1, 2003
Lenny Ann Low, ‘Bowled over’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5–6 October 2003
2002    Lenny Ann Low, ‘The mod squad’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19–20     October 2002
Peter Hill, ‘Critic’s picks’, Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4–10 October     2002
Benjamin Genocchio, ‘They must have imagined it all’, The Weekend Australian, 3–4 August 2002
Peter Hill, ‘There be giants..and little things too’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 July 2002
Lenny Ann Low ‘New wave artists give tradition the brush off’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2002
Helen Cooper, ‘Scribbling no more’, Oyster, June / July 2002
Scott Rochfort, ‘Untitled (art)’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22–24 March     2002
Anne Loxley, ‘Upstairs, a few objections’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13     March 2002
2001    Russell Storer, ‘Play things,’ Artlink, vol. 21, no. 2, 2001
Victoria Hynes, ‘Weird science,’ Metro, The Sydney Morning Herald, 22–28     June 2001
Courtney Kidd, ‘When junk’s no longer rubbish, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 2001
2000    Mark Feary, ‘Useby’, Log Illustrated, no. 12, 2000
Anna Clabburn, ‘New frontier comes with risk,’ The Australian, 13 October 2000
Tessa Dwyer and Sarah Tutton, ‘Useby’, catalogue essay, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2000
Russell Storer, ‘Forward through the rear view mirror’, catalogue essay, 2000
1999    Russell Storer, ‘Dazzle’, 1st Floor, Melbourne 1999
1998    Russell Storer, ‘Monochrome painting’, Grey Area Art Space, Melbourne,     1998
Russell Storer, ‘Leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again’,     catalogue essay
Bruce James, ‘Galleries’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May 1998
1997    Front cover image, untitled (jaffa life), Art Almanac, December 1996–January 1997

GRANTS    
Asialink Residency Grant, (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 2008
Australia Council New Work Grant 2006
Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship 2004
Australia Council New Work Grant 2003
Australian Post Graduate Award 2002-03
NSW Ministry for the Arts Touring Grant 2001
Artspace Studio Residency 2001, 2000
Arts NSW Marketing Grant 2000, 1999, 1998
Pat Corrigan Artist Grant 2000, 1999

COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australia Council for the Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Ten Cubed Collection, Melbourne
University of Queensland Art Museum Collection