bio/cv
Tim Portlock was born in Chicago which inspired his lifelong interest in the dialogue between place and the formation of identity. Educated primarily as a traditional visual artist Portlock has worked in the past as a community-based muralist as well as a studio painter. His current body of work is created using 3D gaming technology to simulate real world and imagined spaces based on the abandoned and foreclosed buildings in biking distance of his home in Philadelphia.
Select Gallery Exhibitions
2011 "Here", Group exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. "Staged", Group exhibition, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA. "Construct”, the Icebox, Philadelphia, PA. “Photo Finish”, Group exhibition, Islip Museum of Art, Islip, NY. “Made in Woodstock”, Group exhibition, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
2010 “Context Ingeminate”, Group exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. “Ghost City”, Solo exhibition, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. “Ghost City”, Solo exhibition Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA. “House Warning” Group exhibition, Hopkins Hall Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. “No Soul for Sale”, Tate Modern, Group exhibition, as a member of the Philadelphia artist collective Vox Populi, London, UK. Roy G Biv Gallery, Two-person exhibition, Columbus, OH. “100 Covers”, Center of Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY. “New Visions”, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. CFEVA Fellows Exhibition, Group exhibition, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2009 “This is Not a Gateway”, Group exhibition of outdoor video projections, London, UK. “eSights, eSounds”, Brandywine Workshop, Group exhibition of outdoor video projections as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Fest 2009. Philadelphia, PA. “Ghost City”, Tennessee State University Art Gallery, Solo exhibition. Nashville, TN. “LACDA Top 40”, Group exhibition, California Museum of Photography, Los Angeles, CA. “Digital Graffiti 09”, Group exhibition of outdoor video projections, Aly Beach, FL. “Top 40“, Group exhibition, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA. “International Guerrilla Video Festival”, Group exhibition of outdoor video projections, Dublin, Ireland.
2008 “Exploding Language” Public Art Exhibition, Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, MN. “Interplay: The Evolution of the Artistic Process.”, Group exhibition, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY. “AIR”, Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. “404 Digital Art Festival 2008”, group exhibition, Trieste, Italy.
2007 “Through the Eye of International Artists”, group exhibition, Balatonfured, Hungary. “404 Digital Art Festival 2006”, Group exhibition, Rosario, Argentina.
2005 “Afro futurism”, Group exhibition, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN.
2002 "Orai" ISEA 2002 (International Society of Electronic Art), juried exhibition, Nagoya, Japan. "Version 02" Group exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
2001 "Super Spectacular" COSIGN (Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media Conference), Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Alive on the Grid: Super Spectacular" Virtual reality art exhibition. Ars Electronica Museum. Linz, Austria.