Joe Tilson Page 16: Ecology, Fire, Air, Water, Earth 1969
Joe Tilson Page 9: Black Dwarf 1969
Joe Tilson Zikkurat 9 1967
Biography
Joe Tilson was born in London in 1928. From 1944 to 1946 he worked as a carpenter and cabinet maker, and then served in the R.A.F. (1946 to 1949). He studied at St. Martin's School of Art (1949 to 1952) and at the Royal College of Art, London (1952 to 1955) where he received the Rome Prize, taking him to live in Italy in 1955. He returned to London in 1957, and from 1958 to 1963 he taught at St Martin's School of Art, and subsequently at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and The School of Visual Arts, New York. In 1961 he was represented at the Paris Biennale.
His awards include the Gulbenkian Foundation Prize (1960) and the Grand Prix d'Honneur, Biennale of Ljubljana (1996). He was elected Royal Academician in 1991 (ARA 1985) and lives and works in London and Cortona, Tuscany.
Exhibitions
2009
Alan Cristea Gallery, London (solo) Gatti, Modena, Italy
2008
"Tilson in Murano," Bugno Gallery, Venice
2007
Waddington Gallery, London
2006
"Eye on Europe," MOMA, New York Menhir Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy Palazzo Doria, Loano, Italy
2004
"Art & The 60s: This Was Tomorrow," Tate Britain, London Beaux Arts, London
2003
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
2002
Retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (Sackler Galleries) "New Paintings," Beaux Arts, London "Greek and Italian Imagery," Alan Cristea Gallery, London "Conjunctions," Menhir Arte Contemporanea, La Spezia, Italy
2001
Castlebasso, Abruzzo Giņ Marconi, Milan Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
