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Bio.

Tim Murdoch has lived and worked in Boston since 1990. He graduated from Montserrat College of Art in 1989 and received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2003. Over the years Tim has taken many jobs in support of his work including; carpenter, cabinetmaker, gym teacher and currently the sculpture professor at Clark University. His work has been shown at galleries and alternative spaces in Boston, New York and in Europe. Over the past two years Tim has won a Blanche Colman Grant, a Visual Arts Sea Grant, and an MCC finalist grant. Tim recently completed two public art installations, one a floating project in the Boston Harbor and the other in the atrium of Mass Art’s new campus center. Currently he is working on a permanent commissioned, kinetic, installation for a new dorm building under construction at Mass College of Art and Design.

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Selected Exhibitions

2011

“Wood” Higgins Art Gallery, West Barnstable, MA

March 2 – April 8.

2010

“Incidents and Reflections” Heidi Kayser and Tim Murdoch

Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA

“Yellow Show” Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA

“The new Media Curious: Experimental Moving Images Festival”

Axiom Center for New and Experimental Art, Jamaica Plain, MA

2009

“Timothy Murdoch Installations”, Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

“See Wall”, Fort Point Gallery, Boston Ma,

Juried by Raphaela Platow, Director, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati.

“Fort Point of View”, 119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford Street, Lowell, MA.

2008

“Reused Repurposed Reinvented” BHCC Art Gallery, 250 New Rutherford Ave. Boston, MA.

“Collision 1101: Superartificial” Axiom Center for New and Experimental Art, Jamaica Plain, MA.

“Smaller is Better” Schiltkamp Gallery, Worcester, MA.

2007

Site Specific Installation of “Evolving Sculpture” Midway Theater, Boston, MA

“Solo Installation Project” Studio Soto, Boston MA.

“Visiting Sculptor” Boston Convention Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA.

2006

“Reverberation” Tim Murdoch and Jon Petro Shiltkamp Gallery, Clark University Worcester, MA

“One is Better” Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2005

“Inside Out” Sculpture and Installations by Tim Murdoch, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA.

“Sensations” Paintings by Deborah Davidson and Tim Murdoch, Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College of Art

Visiting Artist – Montserrat College of Art.

2004

“Faculty Exhibition” Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA

“Touch You” Avery Street Window Installations, Boston, MA. A series of site specific installations, created within storefront windows along Avery Street in downtown Boston.

2003

“Touch Me” Avery Street Window Installations, Boston, MA. The first in a two part series of site specific installations running from October through April, sponsored by the Millennium Partners, Boston.

150 X 150 ” Mad Dash” Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA.

The 14th Annual Benefit Art Auction, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA.

MFA Thesis Show, Stephen Paine Gallery, Mass College of Art,

Boston, MA.

2002

“New Art ’02″, National Juried Show, Curator: Lelia Amalfitano. Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA.

“Midway Show” Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.

2000

“About Round”  Timothy Murdoch at Gallery M3, Boston, MA.

1999

“Repurpose” Timothy Murdoch, Geraldine Erman, Cornelia van den Broeke and Alyson Shotz. University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Curated by Mari Spirito.

Teaching

2004-Present, Visiting Lecturer Sculpture, Clark University, Worcester MA

2003-04, Sculpture Seminar, Mass Art 2002

2003, Mixed Media, Mass College of Art

Education

2003 Massachusetts College of Art – MFA

1994 La Acadamia Di Belle Arte, Viterbo, Italy

1985 – 1989 Montserrat College of Art

Awards / Commissions

2011 Massachusetts Cultural Commission, Finalist, Sculpture Installation

2011 New Dorm Commission, Mass College of Art and Design

2010 Appleton Mills Art Commission, Finalist

2010 Visual Arts Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island

2010 Friends of Fort Point Channel, Public Art Grant

2009 Blanche E. Colman Grant

2009 Atrium Sculpture Commission, Mass College of Art and Design

2003 Joan Mitchell Award, Nominee

2002 Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Artist Resource Trust Grant

1989 Liquitex Award

Collections

Deloitte and Touche, Boston, MA.

Hale and Dorr, Washington D.C.

Centre Solutions, The Bahamas.

Various individual collections, national and international.