BORN
Shoreham-by-sea (UK), November 1971
EDUCATION
1998-00
MA (RCA) Painting, Royal College of Art
1991-94
BA (hons) Fine Art - 1st Class, Nottingham Trent
University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
A Certain Way to Fade, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
A Certain Way to Fade, Galerie Polaris, Paris
All Things For All People, Villa St.Cyr, Bourg-La-Reine,
France
2010
Altitude Sickness, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
How not to disappear completely, Galerie SE, Bergen, Norway
2009
Altitude Sickness, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Charm Offensive, Het Oude Raadhuis, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
2008
The Advantages of Failure, Vegas Gallery, London
Cloud Music, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
Determinator Galerie Polaris, Paris
2006
You must enjoy it like this, Galerie-Polaris, Paris
Don't go weird on me, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
2005
Strangeways here we come, Wallspace, New York
2004
Recent cave painting and other exploits, Galerie-Polaris,
Paris
Bad things even happen to nice people, FRAC Auvergne,Clermont
Ferrand,France
2002
Folk Law, Percymiller Gallery, London
2001
Death to the Archers, Galerie-Polaris, Paris
Percymiller Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Verlan, Twelve Around One Gallery, London
2011
Et plus si affinités..., Artothèque de Caen,
Caen, France
Life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing, Galerie Polaris, France
LVM (La Vie Moderne),works from the collection of FRAC Haute
Normandie, Diep Festival
de la Côte d’Albâtre - Château-Musée,
Dieppe, France
Caras y Máscaras, Identidad Primitiva y contemporánea,
Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
Please drive slowly through our village, Fold Gallery, London
2010
The Library of Babel/In and out of place, Project
176,
Zabludowicz Collection, London (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers)
Art for giving (Fundraiser), Saatchi Gallery, London
Fifty Ways To Keep Your Lover, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway
An Impossible Match, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Extension du domaine de la realité, Ecole Regionale
des Beaux Arts
de Rennes, France
The book of brilliant things, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
Exquisite Trove, House of Fairy Tales, Millenium Gallery,
St Ives
2009
Horn of Plenty, Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc., London
Exquisite Trove, House of Fairy Tales, New Art Gallery Walsall
Polari Vegas Gallery, London
(des) accords communs, Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
I am myself a Genevese and my family is one of the most
distinguished of
that republic,Galerie Forde Espace d'Art Contemporain, Geneva,
Switzerland
& touring to K3, Zurich
Take the A Train, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
The Open West, Summerfield Gallery, Pitfield Studios, University
of Gloucestershire
No end in sight, Vegas Gallery, London
2008
London Calling, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
Awopboopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London
Terra Firma, Fold Gallery, London
Fake ID, Vegas Gallery, London
Drawings, Pullens Yard, London
Project (OR), Centrifrugal Projects, Art Rotterdam
Art Brussels, (Brussels Expo)
No end in sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris
2007
Ground Zero- Size Zero, Vegas Gallery, London
Inter-View, galleryThe space, Seoul, Korea & touring
to London
Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Galerie Polaris, Paris
A travers le miroir (le secret), Musée d'Art et d'Archeologie,
Aurillac, France
2006
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
2005
Extensions du paysage - Espace Boudeville, Dompierre sur
Besbre, France
2004
39 Xmas show - 39 Mitchell St, London
Soleil Vert Musse D’art Roger Quillot, France
Sale et Sucre - Galerie-Polaris, Paris
2003
Side Track - Percy Miller Gallery, London
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
2002
Four Colleges (A T Kearney HQ), London
Reverbere Gallery, Lyon (France)
2001
Miniature Madness - Winkley St Studios, London
2000
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
1999
RCA Group Show, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
1996
Gilchrist Fisher Award, Cadogan Contemporary, London
1993
Just Found, St.Baafsabdij (Gent) Belgium
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2011
A Certain Way to Fade, Galerie Polaris (catalogue)
What's Up Pusseycat?, Torrance Art Museum (catalogue)
2010
Altitude Sickness, Galerie Polaris & Elaine Levy Project
(catalogue)
The Library of Babel, In and Out of Space, Zabludowicz Collection
(catalogue)
2009
Traits pour traits, FRAC Haute-Normandie- Drawings from the
collection
2008
Cloud Music, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica (catalogue)
2006
Vous etes ici, FRAC Auvergne 2000-2006
2004
Simon Willems - Bad things even happen to nice people; FRAC
Auvergne
(100 p.)
2002
Four Colleges Show (Catalogue) - AT Kearney
2000
Assembly (Catalogue) London
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2011
Sioux Magazine, (California), p 2-4
Rebecca Geldard, Art Review 'Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village',
p.134, October
Emmanuelle Lequex- 'Le Monde' (Culture)- France- April 17th-April
18th 2011
2010
Claude Lorent, La Libre Belgique (Culture) 10th September 2010 p.
9
Elephant Magazine, 'Stormtrooper Mourning The Loss of His Mother'
(Summer) p.104-109
2009
Emmanuelle Lequex- 'Le Monde' (Culture)- France- p21,
October 18th-19th 2009
Samantha Deman- 'Semeur de troubles', Les-amis-de Cimasie.fr (online),
May 30th
2008
Eve Wood- Art US Magazine (Fall/Winter) 'Simon Willems at
Mark Moore Gallery' p.76
Ken Pratt- Only when I laugh - Simon Willems - WOUND magazine p.261-5
Allison Gibson - 'Beautiful Decay' Cloud Music at Mark Moore gallery
p.28
critiCAL - 'ARTslant Los Angeles' Cloud Music at Mark Moore Gallery
(online)
2007
Le Figaro, Valerie Duponchelle, (March 23rd)
2005
Art Review - 'Bright Young Things' - p.103, (December)
2004
Eric Fayet - Flashart; - ‘At the galleries’ - p.53,
(May- September)
‘Celebrer l’irrecevable’ - La Montagne (France),
(April 17th)
2002
Jessica Lack - ‘The Guardian’ (The Guide - Previews)
- p.35 (November 1st)
‘Zurban-Paris’ (France) (January 1st-7th)
2001
‘A Nous Paris’ - N. 117 (France) (December 10th- 17th)
Emmanuelle Lequex- 'Le Monde'; (Aden) 'Les Arts' (France)
(November 28th-December 4th) p.27
Louisa Buck - ‘The Art Newspaper’ No.115 - p.73 (June)
Jim Healy - ‘What's On’ - p.25 (June 13th-20th)
Jessica Lack- The Guardian (G2)- 'Pick of the Week' p.18 (June 11th)
Art Review - p.55 (May)
2000
John Russell Taylor - ‘The Times’ (Metro), p.42. (9th
September)
Art Review - p.49 (September)
Charlotte Mullins - ‘The New Sensation’ - Independent
on Sunday (20th August)
1996
Iain Gale - ‘The Week’ (Issue 32), p.18 (12th January)
Iain Gale - ‘The Independent’ (6th January)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Zabludowicz Collection
Leonard Nimoy Collection
David Roberts Collection
Art Review
F.R.A.C. - Auvergne (France)
Artoteque de Caen
F.R.A.C- Haute Normandie (France)
British Airways
Frederick Weisman Foundation
Royal College of Art
Ville Bourg-La-Reine, France
Fondation COLAS
Various Private Collections
