SIMON WILLEMS

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Reading

PhD Fine Art, University of Reading

MA (RCA) Painting, Royal College of Art

BA (hons) Fine Art –1st Class, Nottingham Trent University

Jugg Art Foundation, Ipswich, UK

How Not to Disappear Completely, Elephant West, London, UK

Art of Management & Organisation Conference, University of Brighton, UK

Killing Me Softly, Galerie Polaris, Paris

Killing Me Softly, Atlas House, Ipswich, UK

Universal Solutions Incorporated, Xero, Kline & Coma, London

Universal Solutions Incorporated, Galerie Polaris, Paris

Rogue Elements, Michel Soskine Inc. Madrid, Spain

A Certain Way to Fade, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA

All Things for All People, Villa Saint-Cyr, Bourg-La-Reine, France

A Certain Way to Fade, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Altitude Sickness, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium

How Not to Disappear Completely, Galleri SE, Bergen Norway

Altitude Sickness, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Charm Offensive, Het Oude Raadhuis, Hoofddorp, Netherlands

The Advantages of Failure, Vegas Gallery, London, UK

Cloud Music, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Determinator, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

You Must Enjoy it Like This, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Don’t Go Weird on Me, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Strangeways Here We Come, Wallspace , New York, USA

Recent Cave Painting and Other Exploits, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Bad Things Even Happen to Nice People, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France

Folk Law, Percymiller Gallery, London, UK

Death to the Archers, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Percymiller Gallery, London, UK

The Bruise, Long Story Short, New York (curated by Richard Wathen)

Habiter Autrement pour Les Enfants, FRAC Haute-Normandie, La Médiathèque De Netreville, Évreux, France

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (Curated by Karen Densham & Annabel Dover), Art Station, Saxmondham, UK

Do They Owe Us a Living? Royal Standard, Liverpool (in collaboration with the Art of Management & Organisation conference co-hosted by the Bluecoat and the University of Liverpool)

Green, House of Ebata, Tokyo, Japan

The Collection – A Gift from Basil Alkazzi, National Museum of Gdansk, Poland

Silent Disco, Greystone Industries, Wickham Market, Suffolk

Happy Together – Collection Gilles Balmet, Pavillion Carré de Baudouin, Paris

Memento, La Collection du FRAC Auvergne, Musée Crozatier, Le Puy, France

From Bacon to Zeller – Works on Paper, Michel Soskine Inc. Madrid, Spain

The Time Is Now, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

This Not an Oak Tree, Jugg Art Foundation, Ipswich

Á L'ombre des Grands Arbres, Lycée Lafayette, Brioude - Oeuvres du FRAC Auvergne

The Window, 1909 7th Ave. Los Angeles, USA

Le Monde Réel est en Noir et Blanc, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Uncommon or Garden, Jugg Art Foundation, Ipswich Biennial, Ipswich

3-5 Silent Street, Ipswich Biennial, Ipswich

Fasten Your Seatbelts, It's Going to Be a Bumpy Night, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Espace Interieur, Centre Hospitalier du Rouvray, Sotteville-lés-Rouen, France

Il Sole é Cieco (Chapitre1), Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Les Intentionnels, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Atlas House, Sluice Biennial, London

Á Quoi Tient la Beauté des Étreintes - La Collection du FRAC Auvergne, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Now's the Time, Galerie Polaris, Paris,France

Maisons pour Insomniaques, Rêve 1, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Le Garage, Saint-Saëns, France

De la Ruine á L'Architecture Utopique, Musée d'art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France

Elément Terre, FRAC Auvergne, Espace Culturel Européen, Le Monastier sur Gazeille, France

Autofiction d'une Collection : Ramus del Rondeaux Accrochage, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Summer Mix, Turps Gallery, London

Il Sole é Cieco, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Une Partie de Campagne, St.Briac-sur-mer, France

Collection Gilles Balmet, Le Vog Centre D'art Contemporain, Fontaine, France

Summer Saloon, Lion & Lamb Gallery, London (touring to Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout, Suffolk)

Si on n'a pas vu le Bonheur dans L'image, on en verra le noir ( Sans soleil - Chris Marker ), Galerie Polaris in collaboration with Galerie Anne Barault (curated by Ramuntcho Matta) Paris, France

Sitting with the Qualities of a Mountain, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London

Pratique 2: La Coleur Code Noir FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France (curated by Lidewij Edelkoort)

Let the World Slip, Lion & Lamb Gallery, London

Verlan, Twelve Around One Gallery, London

Et Plus Si Affinités, Artothéque de Caen, Caen, France

Caras y Máscaras. Identidad Primitiva y Contemporánea (Faces: Primitive and Modern Identities), Michel Soskine Inc. Madrid, Spain

LVM (La Vie Moderne) exposition d'oeuvres du FRAC Haute-Normandie

Diep festival de la Côte d'Albâtre – Château-Museé, Dieppe, France

Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village, FOLD gallery, London, UK

Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place Project 176 (Zabludowicz collection) London (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers) UK

Art of Giving, (Fundraiser) Saatchi Gallery, London UK

Fifty Ways to Keep Your Lover, Galleri SE,Bergen, Norway

An Impossible Match, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France (curated by Liberty Roy)

Extension du Domaine de la Realite, Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts de Rennes, France

Book of Brilliant Things, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels, Belgium

House of Fairy Tales, Millenium Gallery, St.Ives, UK

Exquisite Trove, (House of Fairy Tales) Newlyn Art Gallery, UK

Exquisite Trove (House of Fairy Tales), The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK

Polari, Vegas Gallery London, UK

Horn of Plenty (House of Fairy Tales), Viktor Wynd Fine Art inc. London, UK

(Des)Accords Communs, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France

I am by Birth a Genovese, Galerie Forde Espace D'art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Take the A Train, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Enjoy, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium

The Open West, Summerfield Gallery, Pitville studios, Uni. of Gloucestershire, UK

No End in Sight, Vegas Gallery London, UK

London Calling, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Duerle, Belgium

Awopbopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London, UK

Terra Firma, FOLD Gallery, London, UK

Fake ID, Vegas Gallery, London, UK

L'Experience Utile, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Drawings, Peacock Projects - Pullens Yard, London, UK

No end in Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway

Inter-view - GalleryThe space, Seoul, South Korea

Ground Zero, Size Zero, Vegas Gallery, London, UK

A Travers le Miroir (Le Secret), Musee d'art et d'Archeolgie, Aurillac, France

Flow Charting, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA

London Elsewhere, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Manheim, Germany

Mon de L'ouvre – L'ouvre, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Mark Moore Gallery Presents, Rokeby, London, UK

Une Simple Question de Temps, FRAC Auvergne Musee Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay, France

Extensions du Paysage, FRAC Auvergne - Espace Boudeville, Dompierre sur Besbre, France

39 Xmas show, 39 Mitchell St, London, UK

Soleil Vert, FRAC Auvergne, Musse D'art Roger Quillot, France

Sale et Sucre, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Side Track, Percy Miller Gallery, London, UK

Sale et Sucre, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Western Spaghetti (Les nouveaux conquerants), FRAC Auvergne, France

La Maitre des Ombres, Fonds d'art et Contemporain, Montlucon, France

Four Colleges, (A T Kearney HQ), London, UK

Reverbere Gallery, Lyon, France

Miniature Madness, Winkley St Studios, London, UK

Recent Works, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France

Soft & Gentle, Gallery Westland Place, London, UK

Assembly-Project, Jubilee Street (Whitechapel), London, UK

Together Again, Pumphouse Gallery, London, UK

En-route, Galerie Claudia Gros-selbeck, Dusseldorf, Germany

RCA Group Show, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

Gilchrist Fisher Award, Cadogan Contemporary, London UK

Just Found, St.Baafsabdij (Gent), Belgium

Do They Owe Us a Living? Royal Standard, Liverpool (in collaboration with the Art of Management & Organisation conference co-hosted by the Bluecoat and the University of Liverpool)

City Lit Art Screenings, The Conservatoire, London

Sitting with the Qualities of a Mountain, Blyth Gallery (Imperial College) London

Let the World Slip, Lion & Lamb Gallery, London

Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village, Fold Gallery, London

No End in Sight, Vegas Gallery, London

No End in Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris

Miniature Madness, Winkley Street Studios, London

Soft and Gentle, Gallery Westland Place, London

Killing Me Softly, Galerie Polaris, Paris

A Brush With The Real: Figurative Painting Today (Laurence King)

All Things for All People, Villa Saint-Cyr, Bourge-la-Reine, France (catalogue)

A Certain Way to Fade, Galerie Polaris, Paris (catalogue)

Altitude Sickness, Galerie Polaris (Paris) & Elaine levy Project (Brussels)

Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place - Project 176, Zabludowicz Collection

Traits pour Traits, FRAC Haute-Normandie - Drawings from the collection

Cloud Music, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica (catalogue)

Vous Êtes Ici, FRAC Auvergne 2000-2006

Simon Willems – Bad Things Even Happen to Nice People, FRAC Auvergne (100 p.)

Samantha Deman – Interview: Etre dans le monde avec Simon Willems artshebdomedias.com (online)

Pablo Sobisch – 'El Pais' (magazine) Galerias p.39 (Spain)

The Drawer: Volume 2 La Métamorphose (France) p.52-7

Sioux Magazine (California) p. 2-4

Rebecca Geldard – 'Art Review' Please drive slowly through our village p.134

Emmanuelle Lequex - 'Le Monde' (Culture)– (France)

Caroline Laurent 'Liberation' (Blog) Les paysages figures de Simon Willems

Claude Lorent – 'LaLibre Belgique' (Culture) p.9

Elephant – Simon Willems Stormtrooper mourning the loss of his mother p.104-9

Emmanuelle Lequex - 'Le Monde' (Culture)– (France) –p.21

Samantha Deman – Semeur de troubles Les amisde Cimasie.fr (online)

Eve Wood – 'Art US' Simon Willems at Mark Moore Gallery p.76

Ken Pratt- Only when I laugh – Simon Willems – WOUND magazine p.261-5

Mark Westall – fadmagazine.com – Simon Willems: Advantages of Failure at Vegas Gallery (online)

Allison Gibson – 'Beautiful Decay' Cloud Music at Mark Moore gallery p.10

critiCAL – 'ARTslant Los Angeles' Cloud Music at Mark Moore Gallery (online)

Valerie Duponchelle, 'Le Figaro' (online)

Art Review - Bright Young Things - p.103

Eric Fayet – 'Flashart' – At the galleries – p.53

La Montagne Celebrer l'irrecevable (France)

Jessica Lack – 'The Guardian' (The Guide – Previews) – p.35

Zurban-Paris' (France)

'A Nous Paris' – N. 117 (France)

Emmanuelle Lequex - 'e Monde' (Aden) 'Les Arts' – (France) –p.27

Jim Healy – 'What's On' p.25

Jessica Lack – 'The Guardian' (G2) 'Picks of the week' – p.18

Art Review – p.55

Charlotte Mullins – The New Sensation – Independent on Sunday

Iain Gale – 'The Week' (Issue 32), p.18

Iain Gale – 'The Independent'

AoMO Conference Bursary, University of Brighton

Research Travel Grant, Reading University

Swedish Embassy Doctoral Research Travel Award

London Arts Council Funding Award

Stephenson Harwood Prize, Royal College of Art

T.I. Group Scholarship, Royal College of Art

Basil H Alkazzi Travel Award to New York

Worshipful Painter-Stainers Award

Gilchrist Fisher Landscape Award (runner-up)

TEMPUS Travel Award