Simon Willems.com

 

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 Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
2010 Altitude Sickness, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels (forthcoming)
  How not do 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
2001 Percymiller Gallery, London
   
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2010 The Library of Babel/In and out of place, Project 176, Zabludovicz Collection, London (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers)
  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
  Phenomenon: New Perspectives in Painting, Al-Sabah Art, Kuwait Art Foundation, Kuwait City
  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
  (forthcoming) & 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), Musee d'Art et d'Archeologie, Aurillac, France
  Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, Austria
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 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
  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
1997 Crinkle Wharf Gallery, London
1996 Gilchrist Fisher Award, Cadogan Contemporary, London
1993 Just Found , St.Baafsabdij (Gent) Belgium
1992 NATFHE Headquarters, London
   
   
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
   
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
   
2009 Emmanuelle Lequex- 'Le Monde' (Culture)- France- p21, October 18th-19th 2009
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
2008 Ken Pratt- Only when I laugh - Simon Willems - WOUND magazine p.261-5
2008 Allison Gibson - 'Beautiful Decay' Cloud Music at Mark Moore gallery p.28
2008 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)
2004 ‘Celebrer l’irrecevable’ - La Montagne (France), (April 17th)
2004 ‘Particules’ (No.4) - (France), (April-May)
2004 ArtPress - ‘Exporama’ - (France) p.10, (March)
2004 ‘L’Oeil’ Magazine (France) - p.10, (March)
2002 Jessica Lack - ‘The Guardian’ (The Guide - Previews) - p.35 (November 1st)
2002 ArtPress - Arthur Charles Bowyer - ‘Promenade&rsquo (France) p.80 (March)
2002 ‘Beaux Arts’ Magazine (France) (January)
2002 ‘Zurban-Paris’ (France) (January 1st-7th)
2001 ‘A Nous Paris’ - N. 117 (France) (December 10th- 17th)
2001 ArtPress - ‘Exporama’ - (France) p.10 (December)
2001 Emmanuelle Lequex- 'Le Monde'; (Aden) 'Les Arts' (France) (November 28th-December 4th) p.27
2001 Le Journal Des Arts (France) - N.136 - p.18 (November 9th-22nd)
2001 Jean-Pierre Frimbois - ‘Agenda-Paris’ (France) (Art Actuel) p.16 (November)
2001 Louisa Buck - ‘The Art Newspaper’ No.115 - p.73 (June)
2001 Jim Healy - ‘What's On’ - p.25 (June 13th-20th)
2001 Jessica Lack- The Guardian (G2)- 'Pick of the Week' p.18 (June 11th)
2001 Art Review - p.55 (May)
2000 Il Giornale Dell’Arte (Italy) - N.193 - p.57 (November)
2000 John Russell Taylor - ‘The Times’ (Metro), p.42. (9th September)
2000 Art Review - p.49 (September)
2000 Charlotte Mullins - ‘The New Sensation’ - Independent on Sunday (20th August)
1996 Iain Gale - ‘The Week’ (Issue 32), p.18 (12th January)
1996 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)
Frederick Weisman Foundation
Fondation COLAS
Various Private Collections