Simon Willems - ArtFacts.Net

Simon Willems
127 Albion Road, London N16 9PL - 00 44 207 2415092/ 00 44 7791 443816
[email protected]
www.simonwillems.com
BORN
Shoreham-by-sea (UK), November 1971
EDUCATION
1998-00
1991-94
MA (RCA) Painting, Royal College of Art
BA (hons) Fine Art –1st Class, Nottingham Trent University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
(forthcoming) Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
2009
(forthcoming) Galerie Polaris, Paris
Charm Offensive, Het Oude Raadhuis, Hoofddorp, Netherlands
The advantages of failure, Vegas Gallery, London
Cloud Music, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
Determinator, Galerie Polaris, Paris
You must enjoy it like this, Galerie-Polaris, Paris
Don’t go weird on me, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
Strangeways here we come, Wallspace , New York
Recent cave painting and other exploits, Galerie-Polaris, Paris
Bad things even happen to nice people, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
Folk Law, Percymiller Gallery, London
Death to the Archers, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Percymiller Gallery, London
2008
2006
2005
2004
2002
2001
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
(forthcoming) I am by birth a Genovese, Galerie Forde Esapce D’art Contemporain, Geneva
(then touring to K3 Zurich, Switzerland)
(forthcoming) Phenomenon:New Perspectives in Painting Al-Sabah Art, Kuwait Art Foundation, Kuwait
Enjoy Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
The Open West, Summerfield Gallery, Pitville studios, Uni. of Gloucestershire
No end in sight Vegas Gallery London
(Salon du dessin contemporain Paris)
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
London Calling Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Duerle, Belgium
Awopbopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London
Terra Firma FOLD Gallery, London
Fake ID Vegas Gallery, London
l’experience utile, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Drawings Peacock Projects - Pullens Yard, London
No end in sight Galerie Polaris, Paris
Project (OR) Centrifugal Projects, Art Rotterdam
(Art Brussels, Art Amsterdam)
Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Galerie Polaris, Paris
Inter-view - galleryThe space, Seoul, Korea
Ground Zero, Size Zero, Vegas Gallery, London
A travers le miroir (le secret) -Musee d’art et d’Archeolgie, Aurillac, France
Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, Austria
(LA-Art in New York, Art Brussels, Art Chicago, Pulse-London, FIAC Paris, Salon du dessin contemporain
Paris, Pulse Miami)
Flow Charting Raid Projects, Los Angeles
London Elsewhere Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Manheim, Germany
Mon de l’ouvre – l’ouvre Galerie Polaris, Paris
Mark Moore Gallery Presents at Rokeby, London
Une simple question de temps, Musee Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay, France
(Art Brussels, Pulse-New York, Art Copenhagen, FIAC Paris, Pulse-Miami, NADA Artfair Miami)
Extensions du paysage - Espace Boudeville, Dompierre sur Besbre, France
FIAC Paris, Art Rotterdam, NADA Artfair Maimi.
39 Xmas show –, 39 Mitchell St - London
Soleil Vert Musse D’art Roger Quillot, France
Sale et Sucre - Galerie-Polaris, Paris
(Art Brussels, FIAC Paris, NADA Artfair Miami)
Side Track -, Percy Miller Gallery, London
2002
2001
2000
1999
1997
1996
1993
1992
Sale et Sucre –, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Western Spaghetti (Les nouveaux conquerants), Clermont Ferrand, France
La Maitre des ombres –, Fonds d’art et Contemporain, Montlucon, France
(Artissima Bologna, FIAC Paris, Art Brussels)
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Four Colleges (A T Kearney HQ), London
Reverbere Gallery, Lyon (France)
(Art Brussels, FIAC Paris, Art Turin, Art Cologne)
Miniature Madness –, Winkley St Studios, London
(Art Brussels, FIAC Paris)
Recent Works, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Soft & Gentle, Gallery Westland Place, London
Assembly-Project, Jubilee Street (Whitechapel), London
Together Again, Pumphouse Gallery, London
En-route , Galerie Claudia Gros-selbeck, Dusseldorf
(FIAC Paris)
RCA Group Show, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
Crinkle Wharf Gallery, London
Gilchrist Fisher Award, Cadogan Contemporary, London
Just Found , St.Baafsabdij (Gent) Belgium
NATFHE Headquarters, London
SELECTED BOOKS & CATALOGUES
2008
2006
2004
2002
2000
‘Cloud Music’ Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica (catalogue)
‘Vous Etes Ici’ FRAC Auvergne 2000-2006
‘Simon Willems – Bad things even happen to nice people’ FRAC Auvergne (100 p.)
‘Four Colleges Show’ (Catalogue) – AT Kearney
‘Assembly’ – (Catalogue) London
SELECTED ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Fall/Winter 2008
Eve Wood – ‘Art US’ Simon Willems at Mark Moore Gallery p.76
Autumn 2008
Ken Pratt- Only when I laugh – Simon Willems – WOUND magazine p.261-5
September 2008
Allison Gibson – ‘Beautiful Decay’ Cloud Music at Mark Moore gallery p.10
May 2008
critiCAL – ‘ARTslant Los Angeles’ Cloud Music at Mark Moore Gallery (online)
March 23rd 2007
Valerie Duponchelle, ‘Le Figaro’ (online)
Dec 2005
Art Review - Bright Young Things - p.103
May-Sep 2004
Eric Fayet – ‘Flashart’ – At the galleries – p.53
April 17th 2004
La Montagne Celebrer l’irrecevable (France)
April/May 2004
‘Particules’ (No.4) - (France)
Nov 1st 2002
Jessica Lack – ‘The Guardian’ (The Guide – Previews) – p.35
Mar 2002
ArtPress – Arthur Charles Bowyer – Promenade p.80 (France)
Jan 2002
‘Beaux Arts’ Magazine (France)
Jan 1st –7th 2002
‘Zurban-Paris’ (France)
Dec 10th-17th 2001 ‘A Nous Paris’ – N. 117 (France)
Nov 28th-Dec 4th 2001
Emmanuelle Lequex -‘Le Monde’ (Aden) ‘Les Arts’ – (France) –p.27
June 2001
Louisa Buck – ‘The Art Newspaper’ No.115 - , p.73
June 13-20th 2001
Jim Healy – ‘What’s On’, p.25
th
June 11 2001
Jessica Lack – ‘The Guardian’ (G2) ‘Picks of the week’ – p.18
May 2001
Art Review – p.55
9th Sep 2000
John Russell Taylor – ‘The Times’ (Metro), p.42.
20 Aug 2000
Charlotte Mullins – The New Sensation – Independent on Sunday
12th Jan 1996
Iain Gale – ‘The Week’ (Issue 32), p.18
6th Jan 1996
Iain Gale – ‘The Independent’
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Zabludovicz Collection
David Roberts Collection
Leonard Nimoy Collection
Art Review
FRAC Auvergne (France)
FRAC Haute-Normandie (France)
Fondation COLAS, (France)
Artothèque de Caen, (France)
Frederick Weisman Foundation
Various Private Collections worldwide