Timothy Rollin Pickerill
br 1967, Nebraska, USA
Mr Pickerill is a poet and multimedia performance artist showing in America and abroad. He completed studies at San Francisco State University in 1998 majoring in Anthropology and Art, with an emphasis on installation and media. Since 1994 he has self produced twelve installation performances under the Omen Project, incorporating elements of photography, video, writing, performance, installation and his noise project. Mr Pickerill having painted since childhood continues to develop figurative painting series developing emotional and visceral content.Having practiced photography since childhood, and in studies in college, continues to develop many different series and techniques. While he waits for the return of Polaroid film he is in love with his Cannon G7 and the possibilities that come with digital photography. With both of these mediums as well as previous work using film, he has been developing a personal style capturing the time and movement of life, and a lusciousness and softness that can be captured in lengthy exposures. The photo series here were taken at Chelsea gallery openings with a one to two second exposure and then pushed in Photoshop. The name of this series is Bodies Into Light; 'there is only light, moving, never stopping.'
EducationCalifornia State University San Francisco (Video Anthropology/Media Arts)
Video Festivals and Screenings2010 ECP vol. 1, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 ECP vol. 1, Manipulated Image #10, Santa Fe, USA
2009 ECP vol. 1, VideoDanzaBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 ECP vol. 1, Artists Access Television, San Francisco, US
2009 ECP vol. 1, dconcept, São Paulo, Brazil
2009 Optica 2009, international festival of video arts, Cordoba, Spain
2009 ABSTRACTA 2009 International Abstract Cinema Exhibition, Rome, Italy
2009 Video Library 'a la carte,' Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France
2009 ECP vol. 1, Head Quarters, Melbourne, Australia
2009 ECP vol. 1, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI
2009 ECP vol. 1, Núcleo de Produção Digital Orlando Vieira, Aracaju, Brazil
2009 Hypogeum, the Tank, NY, NY
2009 Maximum Bonkers, Envoy Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2009 Flash, The Prospect Range, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Art Channel, www.artchannel.info, Paris, France
2009 ECP vol. 1, Formverk, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 ECP vol. 1, Formverk, Eskilstuna, near Stockholm, Sweden
2009 ECP vol. 1, The Lupa Art, Melbourne, Australia
2008 ECP (Exquisite Corpse Project) vol. 1, aluCine Toronto Latino Media Festival, National Film Board, Toronto, Canada
2008 Optica 2008, international festival of video arts, Gijon,Spain
2008 Optica 2008, international festival of video arts, Madrid, Spain
2008 Optica 2008, international festival of video arts, Paris, France
2008 Digital Fringe, international festival of digital arts, Melborne, Australia
2007 Story Tellers, group show of international video art, Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy
2007 The Man Show, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Broolyn, NY
2006 Pierogi Gallery, Flat file for video, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Optica 2006, international festival of video arts, Gijon, Spain
2006 Passion, Liverpool Bienneal Independents, The Projection Gallery, Liverpool, England
2006 The 2nd annual Pixel Pops!, at C2C gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2006 METU Video Festival, Ankara, Turkey
2003 Brave Destiny, International Surrealist Film Festival, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2004 BRIC Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2003 DUMBO General Store, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Body of Light, Uff Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
Performance2010 The Omen Project, Site Fest, 3RD Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2010 dancing with HoverBound dance co., Cool NY Festival @ White Wave, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Jared Withman Show, Brooklyn, NY2005 Plush, Brooklyn, NY2005 Noise! seen and unseen, Ontological Theater, NY, NY2004 Falling Off The Earth, Cave, Brooklyn, NY2002 Dada Fest, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA2002 Necropolis, Theater of Yugen, San Francisco, CA2001 Necropolis, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA2001 Dada Fest 2001, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA2001 Nowhere, Theater of Yugen / Noh Space, San Francisco, CA2000 NORCAL Noise Fest, with Gary Singh, Bo Jangles, Sacramento, CA2000 Dada Fest 2000, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA1999 Body of Light, The Lab, San Francisco, CA1999 the Messenger Service, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA1999 High Voltage Capacitor, Yuerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA1999 High Voltage Capacitor, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA1997 Ape Theater Presents Play Time, CCA Wattis ICA, San Francisco, CA1994 Ape Theater @ Desert Site Works, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV1994 7 Days, Desert Site Works, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV1994 Ape Theater Presents, the Tree of Life, San Francisco, CA1994 Burning Man Presents, SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions2004 BRIC Studios, Brooklyn, NY2003 DUMBO General Store, Brooklyn, NY1998 Body of Light, Uff Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
Group Exhibitions2009 Pierogi Gallery, Flat file, Brooklyn, NY2009 the Anarchist Art Show, Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, San Francisco, CA
2004 Night of 10,000 Drawings, benefit auction (sold,) Artists Space, Manhattan, NY2004 Falling Off The Earth, Cave, Brooklyn, NY2002 Dada Fest 2002, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA1998 Internal Drawing, National Exhibition of Miniature Drawings, juried, Nador Galeria, Budapest, Hungary1998 Anti Pessimism, Show N Tell, Nador Galleria, Budapest, Hungary1997 Art of Place, SFSU School of Creative Arts, Tiburon, CA1996 SF Street Theater Festival, Interactive Sculpture Garden, San Francisco, CA1995 Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV1995 Show N Tell, Show N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, CA1995 Mission Sole, juried exhibition, Collision Gallery, San Francisco, CA1994 SFSU Sculpture Dept., Clay Studio, San Francisco, CA1993 Object, juror: Armando Rascon, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Awards2004 Foundation For Contemporary Performance Arts, finishing grant
Bibliography2009 Ninja, January, issue #10, Paris, France1999 UFF Gallery 1997 -1999, Pub. Ujlak Foundation, Budapest, 1999, ISBN: 963 03 9111 21998 Internal Drawing, Pub. Belvarosi Muviszetek Tarsasaga, ISBN: 963 03 5970
