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Tim Ayres
1965, Hastings
lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 
    
  EDUCATION 
 1989-91 Rijksacademie
van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
 
  
 1988-89 Masters Degree,
Chelsea School of Art, London
 
  
1985-88 1st Class Honours B.A.,
Loughborough College of Art
 
    
  SOLO SHOWS 
     
2024STUDY FOR AN ITALIEN POEM (“ON BEAUTIFUL FOOLISH ARMS”), PS Project Space, Amsterdam

2020
Galerie Katwijk, Amsterdam (with Lynne Leegte)

2018  QUIETLY (QUIETLY), PS Project Space, Amsterdam 
    
 
 I’LL EXPLAIN ON THE WAY, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam 
    
 
 ROAD MOVIE, Art Chapel, Amsterdam 
    
2016  AS SUCH AND IN AS MUCH AS, PM/AM, London 
    
2014
 THE BEAUTIFUL THUD, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam 
    
2011
 THE GEILBELSTRASSE / VIA FONTANA MARTINA SERIES, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
RIJKSAKADEMIE ALUMNI (double solo with Juriaan Molenaar), Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
 
    
2010
 TIM AYRES AND HAN SCHUIL, Galarie Andreas Binder, München
TIM AYRES RECENT PAINTINGS, Henningsen Contemporary, Copenhagen
 
    
2009
 GLIMPSE; GLANCE; GLIMMER: NUDE; SEMI; DETAIL. VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam 
 
 TIM AYRES AND HERBERT HAMAK, Galerie Christian Roellin Project Space G27, Zurich
TO INCREASE ON RETURN, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
 
    
2008
 RATTLEBAG, Galerie Christian Roellin, St Gallen 
    
2007
 ON THE STATUS OF THE GLASS OF WATER AT ITS HALFWAY MARK, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam
PAINTINGS, Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca
 
    
2006
 ZU
GAST, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin.

Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
 
    
2005
 BARELY FLOWERS, AMONGST OTHERS,
VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam.
 
    
2004
 Stadsgalerij
Heerlen, NL-Heerlen

Galerie Andreas Binder, München
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia
DIALOGUE SERIES #4 (with Lucas Lenglet),
Markus Richter Gallery, Berlin
 
    
2003
 Paintbox Extensions, Copenhagen
THE FLOOR IS DRYING BECAUSE IT’S JUST BEEN CLEANED,
VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam
 
    
2002
 MEMO.:
Markus Richter Gallery, Berlin
BEING THERE WHEN,
VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam
 
    
2000
 PHEW!,
Markus Richter Gallery, Berlin

PHEW 2,
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
 
    
1999
 WASTED / HOLES,
Galerie Markus Richter

THE SOFTEST BULLET EVER SHOT, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
 
    
1998
 HARD LISTENING,
Galerie Andreas Binder, München
 
    
1997
 CONSTRUCTION / DECONSTRUCTION,
Galerie Markus Richter
(with Colin Ardley)
 
    
1990-97
 Onrust Gallery, Amsterdam 
    
1994
 Centraal laboratorium van de bloedtransfusiedienst,
Amsterdam
James van Damme Gallery, Antwerpen
 
    
1993
 WE’RE LIKE TWO INFLATABLE DOLLS IN A HOOKER´S
BAD DREAM
(with Inez van Lamsweerde),
Stedelijk Museum-Bureau Amsterdam
 
    
1992
 INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONGRESS, Rai Exhibition Centre,
Amsterdam
 
    
1990
 A HOLE IN MOTION, Fusion Gallery, London 
    
    
  GROUP SHOWS 
    
2012
 I WISH THIS WAS A SONG (music and contemporary art), Nasjonaal Museet, Oslo, Norway (cat.) 
    
2009
 Art Zuid, Open air sculpture, Amsterdam (cat.) 
 
 LATER ON… REDUX, PS, Amsterdam 
    
2008
 THERE IS DESIRE LEFT (KNOCK KNOCK), (works from Mondstudio),
Kunst Museum Bern / Museum Wiesbaden
 
    
2006
 IDEAL CITY – INVISIBLE CITIES,
Zamosc, Poland and Potsdam, Germany.

(cat.)
 
    
2005
 LATER ON WE SHALL SIMPLIFY THINGS (with Ab van Hanegem,
Jan van der Ploeg and Han Schuil),
Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca;
Stadsgalerij Heerlen (cat.)
 
    
2004
 MADE IN BERLIN, Art Forum, Berlin 
    
2003 DIE REALITÄT DER BILDEN,
Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin (cat.)
 
    
2002 HALLO HOLLAND! Art Directors Club, New York (cat.) 
    
2001 FOUR DUTCH PAINTERS, Galerie Gebroeders Lehmann, Dresden 
    
1999 GLAD IJS,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
BEACHPARTY 99, Galerie
Andreas Binder, Munich
 
    
1998 BLICK ZURÜCK NACH VORN,
Galerie Markus Richter, D-Potsdam
THE CENTER HOLDS, JUNGE KUNST AUS DEN NIEDERLANDEN, curated by Rudi
Fuchs, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
FAMA CRÉSCUIT ÉUNDO (HET GERUCHT GROEIT AAN TERWIJL
HET RONDE DOET), Bogardenkapel, Bruges
 
    
1997 AROUND EUROPE,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
 
    
1996 SUBLIME VORMEN MET ZICHT VANAF 5 M,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.)
 
    
1995 PAINTERS OPINION, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
PRIX NI, Galerie Nouvelles Images, NL-The Hague (cat)
TIM AYRES, NARCISSE TORDOIR AND ALAN UGLOW, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
KONTRAST (mit René Guiffrey, Serge Hélias and Michael
Ventrone), Pro Sieben, Munich
VOUS ETES ICI Editions,
Museum Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
 
    
1994 DE VERZAMELING, recent acquisitions,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
 
    
1992 TIM AYRES, MARIE-JOSÉ BURKI, HENRI JACOBS, ROBERT
SUERMONDT AND JAN DE VRIES, Galerie Bruges la Morte, Bruges
 
    
1991 HET KLIMAAT, Foreign artists working in The Netherlands, Rijksakademie Amsterdam (cat) 
    
1989 INTO THE NINETIES,
Mall Galleries, London (K)
JOHN MOORES 19, Walker City Art Gallery, Liverpool (K)
BARCLAYS´ PRIZE FOR YOUNG PAINTERS, RCA Galleries, London
 
    


photo Emily Bates