TIM SPELIOS
6063 Palmetto St • Queens, NY 11385 • 917.445.5812 • speliosstudio@nyc.rr.com • timspelios.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Before Disembarking, Studio 10, Bklyn, NY
2013 Do Not Blow Horn Use Bell, Studio 10, Bklyn, NY
2012 a trampoline was found in a tree, Studio 10 at Buschwick Basel, Starr Space, Bklyn
Scissors, Paper, Glue, and Books I Can’t Cut Up, Studio 10 , Bklyn, NY
2006 No Tweeters Allowed, Long Island University (Brooklyn campus), Bklyn, NY
2000 A Shaker Under the Influence, Brooklyn Public Library, Installation, Bklyn, NY
1997 Almost Continuous, I Space, Chicago, IL, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1995 Wingnut Wing, Century 23, Bklyn, NY
1991 Ocarina, Knitting Factory, NYC, NY
1986 Drawings and Sculpture, Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC, NY
1984 Sculpture, Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 NomenColorature, Studio10, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Checkered History, Outpost, Queens, NY
2014 Redacted, Islip Museum, Islip, NY
Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, Williamsburg, BKLYN
2013 Clouds, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC, NY
2011 Collage, Big & Small Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Summer Collage Show, Valentiine Gallery, Queens, NY
2010 Ten Years Hunting, Parker’s Box, Bklyn, NY
Works on Paper, Big & Small Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2009 Twin Twin lll, participating artist in Matt Freedman’s solo show, Big & Small
Casual Gallery, LIC, NY
Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NY
2007 The Building Show, Exit Art, NYC, NY
2006 B-Side, at Sarah Bowen Gallery, Bklyn, NY
2004 Six Outdoor Projects, Long Island University (Brooklyn campus), Bklyn, NY
Chicken Coop, collaboration with J. Muthata, Five Myles, Bklyn, NY
Power T’s at Pierogi, Pierogi Gallery, Bklyn, NY
2003 The Decade Show, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Bklyn, NY
2002 Drawing Quirks 2, Parker’ Box, Brooklyn, NY
25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, NYC, NY
2001 Meditations, Project, Toronto, Canada
Cross Pollination, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Bklyn, NY, and the Los Angeles
Arboretum, LA, CA
2000 The Last Thing I Remember, IM n IL Gallery, Bklyn, NY
The Super Duper New York Show, Pierogi, Bklyn, NY
1999 Natural Histories, Smack Mellon, Bklyn, NY
Spelled Out, Keane Univ., James Howe Gallery, Wayne, NJ
1998 Late Stages of Organic Life, Space Untitled, NYC, NY
Stairmasters, Stairmaster Gallery, NYC, NY
The Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
Lost and Found, Smack Mellon Studios, Bklyn, NY
Hybrid No. 15, The Kitchen, NYC, NY 1997
Current Undercurrents, Pierogi 2000 flatfile at the Brooklyn Museum, Bklyn, NY,
Bedbugs at Snorewalls, Art Moving trilogy at 4 Walls, Bklyn, NY
Mold Meets Team Fungus, Art Moving trilogy at Clementine & Team Gallery, NY
1996 Low Tide, Sauce Gallery, Bklyn, NY
The Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
The Art Exchange Show, Pierogi 2000, NYC, NY
1995 Show and Tell, Bookworks, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, NY
Other Rooms, Pierogi 2000, at Feldman Gallery, NYC, NY
Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
Indoor/Outdoor, Century 28, Bklyn, NY
1994 The Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
1993 Out of Town, the Williamsburg Paradigm, Krannert Art Museum,
Univ. of IL at Urbana/Champaign
1992 The Salon of Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, Bklyn, NY
1991 Loose Fit, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, NY
1990 Three, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
SOUND
2016 - Endless Broken Time: Tim Spelios and Matt Freedman, a monthly performance with
2015 Matt Freedman at Studio 10
2014 The Chairs, at Studio 10
2013 Discussion/Performance: Tim Spelios and Matt Freedman, A Short History of the
con-TRAP-tion-SETor Fly Swatters on Calf Heads, Studio 10, BKLYN NY
2012 Mr. Klopp, in association with his solo exhibition Scissors, Paper, Glue, and
Books I Can’t Cut Up, recorded by and shown on Vernisage TV, Studio 10 , Bklyn, NY
2010 The Light Show, Boiler, Pierogi, Bklyn
2009 Rare silent films from the collection of Mark Newgarden, guest with Dewanatron,
the Boiler, Bklyn
2007 The Nancy Boys, w/Matt Freedman + David Weinstein at the SCOPE art fair NYC, NY,
The Whole Kit and Caboodle, w/Matt Freedman, BAM Brooklyn Next Festival
at Five Myles, Bklyn
2006 Theador Geisel Temporary Quartet, Roulette Intermedium Foundation, NYC, NY
2005 PS1 RADIO, guest DJ w/David Weinstein, gulf coast music survey after Katrina
2004 Off, David Weinstein and Tim Spelios at Location One, NYC, NY
2004 Lightening Sketch, performance with Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios at the Brooklyn
Museums “Open House” exhibition
2002 Mir, Smack Mellon, sound track for Ward Shelley and collaborators’ space station
installation, Bklyn
2002- Impossible Music, loop based electronic band toured internationally (founded in
1990 by Tim Spelios and David Weinstein)
2001 Radio Show, CKLN in Toronto, Canada, “High and Dry”, a sound collaboration
with Caroline Cox
2000 Bed of Sound, PS1, Long Island City, recordings by “Impossible Music”
Sound Bytes, Rotunda, performances w/Gene Pool and David Weinstein, Bklyn, NY
1998 Art at the Anchorage, “Not the Four Walls Slide and Film Club”, Creative Time,
Bklyn, NY
1994- No Safety, experimental rock band that toured internationally, and produced
1989 two CDs on KnittingFactory Works, “Spill“ and “Live at the Knitting Factory”
1992 John Zorn’s Cobra, Live at the Knitting Factory, Knitting Factory Works
1991- Chunk, an electronic drumming trio, toured internationally and produced the “Life of 1989 Crime”, CD on Knitting Factory Works
1988- Jole Blonde / The Bedesman, PS122, NYC, NY
1980 The Chairs, Roulette, Intermedium Foundation, NYC, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios’s Endless Broken Time, Ander Mikalson,
Bomb Magazine, NYC, fall 2015
2015 Best of Brooklyn Art 2015: The Past Conditional Edition, Paul D’Agostino,
Brooklyn.com, NYC, 12/21/2015
Bushwick’s 10 Best Contemporary Galleries, Ngoc Doan, Brooklyn.com,
NYC, 12/12/2015
2013 Of Amoebas and Cinema: Tim Spelios, Paul D’Agostino, The L Magazine,
NYC, 9/11/2013
A Long Short List Of Gallery Shows to See This Fall, Jillian Steinhauser,
Hyperallergic, 9/2013
2012 Vernissagetv.com, Scissors, Paper, Glue, and Books I Can’t Cut Up,
Tim Spelios at Studio 10
Hyperallergic, Alissa Guzman, Bushwick Basil very small art fair, June 4, 2012
Bushwick Art Openings, L-Magazine, Mar 5, by Paul D’Agostino
2008 Foundations of Art & Design, Alan Pipes, Laurence King Publishing, UK
2007 The Village Voice, March 8, The Building Show, R.C. Baker 2006
The New York Times, April 14, Ken Johnson
2000 Art Since 1940, Strategies of Being, Jonathan Fineberg, published by Abrams
The New York Times, December 15, Holland Cotter
1999 The Brooklyn Bridge, Sept/Oct, “Greetings From Greenpoint”, Tom Gilbert
1998 The Village Voice, June 23, 1998, Karen Angel
The New York Times, May 1, Holland Cotter
The New York Times, Nov 6, Roberta Smith
Waterfront Week, March 26 to April 8, Susan Hamburger
1997 American Music in the Twentieth Century, Kyle Gann, published by Wadsworth
1996 Time Out, June, Sarah Schmerler
1989 The New York Times, February 19, Jon Pareles
The New York Times, September 13, Peter Watrous
VISITING ARTIST AND TEACHING
2008- Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, Bklyn, NY
2016
2008 Fri. Gallery Talk: Artist & Professor Tim Spelios on Bruce Nauman,
Hirshhorn Museum, Wash, DC
2008- Adj Professor, Center for the Study of Modern Art, Univ. of Illinois
2006 at Phillips Collection, Wash, DC
2000 The Allen-Stevenson School, taught art and woodshop to K-9 grades, NYC
CURATING
2002 - Co-Founder and Co-Director of Flipside, an alternative exhibition space in
1997 Williamsburg, Bklyn, NY that promoted the exploration of diverse ideas and ways
of working; Flipside’s eighteen exhibitions included seventy artists from 1997-2001
EDUCATION
1978 B.F.A. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
6063 Palmetto St • Queens, NY 11385 • 917.445.5812 • speliosstudio@nyc.rr.com • timspelios.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Before Disembarking, Studio 10, Bklyn, NY
2013 Do Not Blow Horn Use Bell, Studio 10, Bklyn, NY
2012 a trampoline was found in a tree, Studio 10 at Buschwick Basel, Starr Space, Bklyn
Scissors, Paper, Glue, and Books I Can’t Cut Up, Studio 10 , Bklyn, NY
2006 No Tweeters Allowed, Long Island University (Brooklyn campus), Bklyn, NY
2000 A Shaker Under the Influence, Brooklyn Public Library, Installation, Bklyn, NY
1997 Almost Continuous, I Space, Chicago, IL, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1995 Wingnut Wing, Century 23, Bklyn, NY
1991 Ocarina, Knitting Factory, NYC, NY
1986 Drawings and Sculpture, Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC, NY
1984 Sculpture, Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 NomenColorature, Studio10, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Checkered History, Outpost, Queens, NY
2014 Redacted, Islip Museum, Islip, NY
Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, Williamsburg, BKLYN
2013 Clouds, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC, NY
2011 Collage, Big & Small Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Summer Collage Show, Valentiine Gallery, Queens, NY
2010 Ten Years Hunting, Parker’s Box, Bklyn, NY
Works on Paper, Big & Small Casual Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2009 Twin Twin lll, participating artist in Matt Freedman’s solo show, Big & Small
Casual Gallery, LIC, NY
Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NY
2007 The Building Show, Exit Art, NYC, NY
2006 B-Side, at Sarah Bowen Gallery, Bklyn, NY
2004 Six Outdoor Projects, Long Island University (Brooklyn campus), Bklyn, NY
Chicken Coop, collaboration with J. Muthata, Five Myles, Bklyn, NY
Power T’s at Pierogi, Pierogi Gallery, Bklyn, NY
2003 The Decade Show, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Bklyn, NY
2002 Drawing Quirks 2, Parker’ Box, Brooklyn, NY
25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, NYC, NY
2001 Meditations, Project, Toronto, Canada
Cross Pollination, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Bklyn, NY, and the Los Angeles
Arboretum, LA, CA
2000 The Last Thing I Remember, IM n IL Gallery, Bklyn, NY
The Super Duper New York Show, Pierogi, Bklyn, NY
1999 Natural Histories, Smack Mellon, Bklyn, NY
Spelled Out, Keane Univ., James Howe Gallery, Wayne, NJ
1998 Late Stages of Organic Life, Space Untitled, NYC, NY
Stairmasters, Stairmaster Gallery, NYC, NY
The Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
Lost and Found, Smack Mellon Studios, Bklyn, NY
Hybrid No. 15, The Kitchen, NYC, NY 1997
Current Undercurrents, Pierogi 2000 flatfile at the Brooklyn Museum, Bklyn, NY,
Bedbugs at Snorewalls, Art Moving trilogy at 4 Walls, Bklyn, NY
Mold Meets Team Fungus, Art Moving trilogy at Clementine & Team Gallery, NY
1996 Low Tide, Sauce Gallery, Bklyn, NY
The Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
The Art Exchange Show, Pierogi 2000, NYC, NY
1995 Show and Tell, Bookworks, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, NY
Other Rooms, Pierogi 2000, at Feldman Gallery, NYC, NY
Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
Indoor/Outdoor, Century 28, Bklyn, NY
1994 The Crest Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Bklyn, NY
1993 Out of Town, the Williamsburg Paradigm, Krannert Art Museum,
Univ. of IL at Urbana/Champaign
1992 The Salon of Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, Bklyn, NY
1991 Loose Fit, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, NY
1990 Three, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
SOUND
2016 - Endless Broken Time: Tim Spelios and Matt Freedman, a monthly performance with
2015 Matt Freedman at Studio 10
2014 The Chairs, at Studio 10
2013 Discussion/Performance: Tim Spelios and Matt Freedman, A Short History of the
con-TRAP-tion-SETor Fly Swatters on Calf Heads, Studio 10, BKLYN NY
2012 Mr. Klopp, in association with his solo exhibition Scissors, Paper, Glue, and
Books I Can’t Cut Up, recorded by and shown on Vernisage TV, Studio 10 , Bklyn, NY
2010 The Light Show, Boiler, Pierogi, Bklyn
2009 Rare silent films from the collection of Mark Newgarden, guest with Dewanatron,
the Boiler, Bklyn
2007 The Nancy Boys, w/Matt Freedman + David Weinstein at the SCOPE art fair NYC, NY,
The Whole Kit and Caboodle, w/Matt Freedman, BAM Brooklyn Next Festival
at Five Myles, Bklyn
2006 Theador Geisel Temporary Quartet, Roulette Intermedium Foundation, NYC, NY
2005 PS1 RADIO, guest DJ w/David Weinstein, gulf coast music survey after Katrina
2004 Off, David Weinstein and Tim Spelios at Location One, NYC, NY
2004 Lightening Sketch, performance with Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios at the Brooklyn
Museums “Open House” exhibition
2002 Mir, Smack Mellon, sound track for Ward Shelley and collaborators’ space station
installation, Bklyn
2002- Impossible Music, loop based electronic band toured internationally (founded in
1990 by Tim Spelios and David Weinstein)
2001 Radio Show, CKLN in Toronto, Canada, “High and Dry”, a sound collaboration
with Caroline Cox
2000 Bed of Sound, PS1, Long Island City, recordings by “Impossible Music”
Sound Bytes, Rotunda, performances w/Gene Pool and David Weinstein, Bklyn, NY
1998 Art at the Anchorage, “Not the Four Walls Slide and Film Club”, Creative Time,
Bklyn, NY
1994- No Safety, experimental rock band that toured internationally, and produced
1989 two CDs on KnittingFactory Works, “Spill“ and “Live at the Knitting Factory”
1992 John Zorn’s Cobra, Live at the Knitting Factory, Knitting Factory Works
1991- Chunk, an electronic drumming trio, toured internationally and produced the “Life of 1989 Crime”, CD on Knitting Factory Works
1988- Jole Blonde / The Bedesman, PS122, NYC, NY
1980 The Chairs, Roulette, Intermedium Foundation, NYC, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios’s Endless Broken Time, Ander Mikalson,
Bomb Magazine, NYC, fall 2015
2015 Best of Brooklyn Art 2015: The Past Conditional Edition, Paul D’Agostino,
Brooklyn.com, NYC, 12/21/2015
Bushwick’s 10 Best Contemporary Galleries, Ngoc Doan, Brooklyn.com,
NYC, 12/12/2015
2013 Of Amoebas and Cinema: Tim Spelios, Paul D’Agostino, The L Magazine,
NYC, 9/11/2013
A Long Short List Of Gallery Shows to See This Fall, Jillian Steinhauser,
Hyperallergic, 9/2013
2012 Vernissagetv.com, Scissors, Paper, Glue, and Books I Can’t Cut Up,
Tim Spelios at Studio 10
Hyperallergic, Alissa Guzman, Bushwick Basil very small art fair, June 4, 2012
Bushwick Art Openings, L-Magazine, Mar 5, by Paul D’Agostino
2008 Foundations of Art & Design, Alan Pipes, Laurence King Publishing, UK
2007 The Village Voice, March 8, The Building Show, R.C. Baker 2006
The New York Times, April 14, Ken Johnson
2000 Art Since 1940, Strategies of Being, Jonathan Fineberg, published by Abrams
The New York Times, December 15, Holland Cotter
1999 The Brooklyn Bridge, Sept/Oct, “Greetings From Greenpoint”, Tom Gilbert
1998 The Village Voice, June 23, 1998, Karen Angel
The New York Times, May 1, Holland Cotter
The New York Times, Nov 6, Roberta Smith
Waterfront Week, March 26 to April 8, Susan Hamburger
1997 American Music in the Twentieth Century, Kyle Gann, published by Wadsworth
1996 Time Out, June, Sarah Schmerler
1989 The New York Times, February 19, Jon Pareles
The New York Times, September 13, Peter Watrous
VISITING ARTIST AND TEACHING
2008- Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, Bklyn, NY
2016
2008 Fri. Gallery Talk: Artist & Professor Tim Spelios on Bruce Nauman,
Hirshhorn Museum, Wash, DC
2008- Adj Professor, Center for the Study of Modern Art, Univ. of Illinois
2006 at Phillips Collection, Wash, DC
2000 The Allen-Stevenson School, taught art and woodshop to K-9 grades, NYC
CURATING
2002 - Co-Founder and Co-Director of Flipside, an alternative exhibition space in
1997 Williamsburg, Bklyn, NY that promoted the exploration of diverse ideas and ways
of working; Flipside’s eighteen exhibitions included seventy artists from 1997-2001
EDUCATION
1978 B.F.A. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
