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HIDE INFOB. 1971, Shoreham-by-Sea, UK
EDUCATION
1998-2000 MA (RCA) Painting, Royal College of Art
1991-94 BA (Hons) Fine Art – 1st Class, Nottingham Trent University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Rogue Elements, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid
2011
A Certain Way to Fade, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
All Things For All People, Villa St.Cyr, Bourg-La-Reine, France
A Certain Way to Fade, Galerie Polaris, Paris
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
2013
Pratique 2: La Coleur Code Noir FRAC Haute-Normandie (curated by Lidewij Edelkoort)
Sitting with the qualities of a mountain Blythe Gallery, Imperial College, London
Hospital Club, London
ARCO Artfair, Madrid
2012
Let The World Slip, Lion & Lamb Gallery, London
Verlan, Twelve Around One Gallery, London
2011
Et Plus Si Affinités, Artothèque de Caen, Caen, France
Caras y Máscaras, Identidad Primitiva y contemporánea, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
LVM (La Vie Moderne), Works from the Collection of FRAC Haute Normandie, Diep Festival de la Côte d’Albâtre – Château-Musée, Dieppe, France
Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village, FOLD Gallery, London
Drawing now Paris, Art Brussels, MACO Mexico City (artfairs)
2010
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Project 176, Curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Zabludowicz Collection, London
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
Book of Brilliant Things, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels
House of Fairy Tales, Millenium Gallery, St.Ives, UK
Exquisite Trove, House of Fairy Tales, Millenium Gallery, St Ives
Art Copenhagen (artfair)
2009
Exquisite Trove, House of Fairy Tales, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Polari, Vegas Gallery, London
Horn of Plenty, Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc., London
(des) Accords Communs, Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
I am by birth a Genovese, Galerie Forde Espace d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland & touring to K3, Zurich
Take the A Train, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Enjoy, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
The Open West, Summerfield Gallery, Pitfield Studios, University of Gloucestershire
No End In Sight, Vegas Gallery, London
Salon du dessin contemporain, Paris, France (artfair)
2008
London Calling, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium
Awopboopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London
Terra Firma, FOLD, London
Fake ID, Vegas Gallery, London
L’experience utile, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Drawings, Peacock Projects, Pullens Yard, London
No End In Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Project (OR) Centrifugal Projects (artfair) Art Brussels (artfair)
2007
Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Inter-View, galleryThe space, Seoul, South Korea
Ground Zero, Size Zero, Vegas Gallery, London
A Travers le Miroir (Le Secret), Musée d’Art et d’Archeologie, Aurillac, France
LA-Art in New York, Art Brussels, Art Chicago, Pulse-London, FIAC Paris, Salon du dessin contemporain Paris, Pulse Miami (artfairs)
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
Art Brussels, Pulse-New York, Art Copenhagen, FIAC Paris, Pulse-Miami, NADA Artfair Miami (artfairs)
2005
Extensions du Paysage, Espace Boudeville, Dompierre sur Besbre, France
FIAC Paris, Art Rotterdam, NADA Artfair Maimi (artfairs)
2004
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 (artfairs)
2003
Side Track, Percy Miller Gallery, London
Sale et Sucre, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Western Spaghetti (Les Nouveaux Conquerants), FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
La Maitre des Ombres – Fonds d’art et Contemporain, Montlucon, France
Artissima Bologna, FIAC Paris, Art Brussels (artfairs)
2002
Four Colleges, A T Kearney HQ, London
Reverbere Gallery, Lyon, France
Art Brussels, FIAC Paris, Art Turin, Art Cologne (artfairs)
2001
Miniature Madness, Winkley St Studios, London
Art Brussels, FIAC Paris (artfairs)
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
FIAC Paris (artfair)
1999
RCA Group Show, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
1996
Gilchrist Fisher Award, Cadogan Contemporary, London
1993
Just Found, St.Baafsabdij (Gent) Belgium
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2013
Blythe Gallery, Imperial College, London
2012
Let The World Slip, Lion & Lamb Gallery, London
2011
Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village, FOLD Gallery, London
2009
No End in Sight, Vegas Gallery, London
2008
No End in Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris
2001
Miniature Madness, Winkley Street Studios, London
2000
Soft and gentle, Gallery Westland Place, London
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2014
The Return of the Subject: Contemporary Figurative Painting Laurence King Publishing
2011
All things for all people, Villa Saint-Cyr, Bourge-la-Reine, France, Catalogue
A Certain Way to Fade, Galerie Polaris, Catalogue
2010
Altitude Sickness, Galerie Polaris & Elaine Levy Project, Catalogue
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Space, Project 176, Zabludowicz Collection
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, p. 100
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2012
Pablo Sobisch – ‘El Pais’ (magazine) Galerias p.39 (Spain)
The Drawer: Volume 2, La Métamorphose, France p. 52-7
2011
Sioux Magazine, California, p 2-4
Rebecca Geldard, Art Review Please Drive Slowly Through Our Village, October, p.134
Emmanuelle Lequex, Le Monde, Culture, France, April 17th-April 18th
2010
Caroline Laurent ‘Liberation’ (Blog) Les paysages figures de Simon Willems
Claude Lorent, La Libre Belgique, Culture, 10th September, 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, December, p.103
2004
Eric Fayet, Flashart, At the galleries, May- September, p.53
Celebrer l’irrecevable, La Montagne, France, April 17th
2002
Jessica Lack, The Guardian, The Guide – Previews, November 1st, p.35
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
Jim Healy, What’s On, June 13th-20th, p.25
Jessica Lack, The Guardian (G2), Pick of the Week, June 11th, p.18
Art Review, May, p.55
2000
Charlotte Mullins, The New Sensation, Independent on Sunday, 20th August
1996
Iain Gale, The Week, (Issue 32), 12th January, p.18
Iain Gale, The Independent, 6th January
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Review
Artothèque de Caen, (France)
British Airways Collection
David Roberts Collection
Fondation COLAS, (France)
FRAC Auvergne (France)
FRAC Haute-Normandie (France)
Frederick Weisman Foundation
Leonard Nimoy Collection
Royal College of Art,London
Ville de Bourg-la-Reine, (France)
Zabludowicz Collection
Various Private Collections worldwide
