Tim Gordon Oakland CA tgordon510@hotmail.com Education MFA Photography 2001 California College of the Arts BS Photography 1998 James Madison University Professional Experience 2009- Director of Photography Material Mississippi documentary film and photography project about the lives and art of 6 Mississippi Delta Artists 2007 - present –Director of Photography www.MaterialMississippi.org a web site showcasing creative individuals in the Mississippi Delta 2006 -Photographer and Videographer, Let The World Listen Right, documentary video about Hip Hop in the Mississippi Delta 2005 -Photographer and Videographer, Home of the Double Headed Eagle, documentary video of artists Rev. H.D. and Margaret Dennis. 2004 Project Director, Photography Road Show, Delta State University, -Documentary Photography Instructor, Delta Center for Culture and Learning, Delta State University 2002 -Art Installer / Deinstaller, The Jewish Museum San Francisco CA 1999-01 -Real Estate Photographer, IPIX.com Walnut Creek, CA 1997-99 -Proprietor and Operator of Tim Gordon Photography Richmond, VA 1997-99 -Laboratory Manager, Old Dominion Camera Shoppe Richmond, VA 1998 -Elementary School Student Teacher of Art, Westwood Hills Elementary Waynesboro, VA 1997 -Photography Instructor, Appel Farm Center for Music and Art Elmer NJ Taught beginning and advanced black and white as well as color printing and film processing. Other Work Experiences 2007-2008 Territory Manager, Prestige Wine Distributors Chapel Hill, NC 2004-2007 Sommelier, Bin 54 Restaurant, Chapel Hill, NC 2003-2004 Wine Steward, Chez Philippe Memphis TN 2002 General Manager Morgan Freeman’s blues club Ground Zero Clarksdale MS Exhibition Record Selected Solo Exhibitions 2008 -Material Mississippi Center for Southern Studies UNC, Chapel Hill NC -Royal Quiet Deluxe NYC, Mexico City 2007 -Material Mississippi Sawhill Gallery JMU, Harrisonburg VA 2005 -Legacies and Legends Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale MS 2003 -Nose Drawing Liminal Gallery, Oakland CA 2001 -The Blue Urine Project CCAC, San Francisco CA -Pictures from Richmond, Virginia Bruce Gallery San Francisco -Manipulations Long and Pollack Gallery San Francisco -Country Stars Shooter’s Nashville TN and The Hotel Utah, San Francisco CA 1999 -The Great Pull Test Strip Gallery, Oakland CA -Suspensions Photography Alive Gallery, Richmond VA -The Royal Quiet Deluxe Performance The Artspace, Richmond VA Selected Group Exhibitions 2010 (upcoming)- Spiritual Advisor to the World with Bruce West and Ali Neff Smithsonian’s Anacostia Museum, Washington D.C. 2009 (upcoming) – A White Dress and a Blue Dream with Reece Carter San Francisco Art Institute New Genres 2004 -New Sounds in Bay Area Audio Genres curated by Jarrett Mitchell Warehouse 3201, San Francisco CA -The Main Event curated by Isaac Randossi Studio Z, San Francisco CA 2003 -Something Scripted curated by Liz Cohen San Francisco Art Institute, CA 2001 -The Gigantic Show Photography curated by Trevor Stone Studio N-15 San Francisco CA -Keep A Breast Inhumane Gallery, New York NY and Red Five Gallery, San Francisco CA 2000 -Funkhaus Annual Art Exhibition, Harrisonburg VA Fuzzy Logic curated by Tom Finkelpearl Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco CA 1998 -Funkhaus Annual Exhibition, Harrisonburg VA 1997 -Faculty Show Appel Farm Center for Music and Art, Elmer NJ -Politically Incorrect The Atlanta Photo Gallery, Atlanta GA Material Published About -www.materialmississippi.org -Let the World Listen Right: Hip Hop at the Crossroads of the Mississippi Delta Ali C. Neff, U. of Mississippi Press 2009 -www.myspace.com/swankband -Hip Hop at the Crossroads Endeavors Magazine winter 2007 Chapel Hill NC -5000 Miles per Thumb III Billy Tumbleweed Slap Magazine, April 2005 -New Sounds in Bay Area Audio Genres LP 2004 -An Interview with the Artist Tim Gordon Jeff Bostik Lurker Magazine February 2002 -Absolute Art Matt Gill August Cutter Spring Volume 2002 -The Unbearable Lightness Jamie Cortez Stretcher June 28th 2002 -Jack Ass Art: San Francisco Performance Artists are Jerking Art Around Paul McEnery San Francisco Bay Guardian cover June 6th 2001 -The Independent weekly Rock Lotto III Nathan Brown Raleigh NC Dec 12 2000 -www.plainparade.org/rocklotto/about.html Published Photography 2009 Let the World Listen Right: Hip Hop at the Crossroads of the Mississippi Delta Ali C. Neff, U. of Mississippi Press. cover photo plus photos inside 2007 -www.MaterialMississippi.org -Hip Hop at the Crossroads Endeavors Magazine winter Chapel Hill NC 2003 -Extreme Elvis Ali Neff Concussion Magazine Issue 21 Richmond CA -The Anti-Capitalist Reader Joel Schalit, Akashic Books, New York 2000 -Funkhaus Biannual Art Exhibition, Catalog Cover Harrisonburg VA 1994-present -Countless CD, album, and single covers and various published photography for articles in The SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Concussion Skate Magazine, Clarksdale Press Register, and the Roanoke Times Visiting Artist and Guest Lectures 2006 UNC-Chapel Hill NC Guest Lecturer for Dr. William Ferris’ class “Music of the South” 2005 Delta State University, Cleveland MS Photography Roadshow 2002 CCA, San Francisco CA Guest Lecturer for Larry Sultan’s class “Graduate Photography/ Male Aesthetic” 2000 San Francisco Art Institute, Guest Lecturer for Tony Labat’s class “New Genres and Performance Studies” Grants, Awards and Distinctions 2008 Mississippi Humanities Council, media grant for video leg of www.MaterialMississippi.org 2007 Mississippi Humanities Council, planning grant for www.MaterialMississippi.org 1999 CCAC Graduate Merit Scholarship 1998 JMU Senior Art Achievement Award Nominee 1997, 1998 JMU President’s List 1996 Created Rock Lotto, -www.plainparade.org/rocklotto/about.html 1996 Golden Key National Honor Society 1993 Most Valuable Wrestler, LBHS Varsity Squad