Simon Willems

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B. 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

 

<b>Title: </b>Lend Me Your Prophet (2)<br /><b>Year: </b>2008<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil & acrylic on linen<br />
<b>Title: </b>Cloud Music<br /><b>Year: </b>2008<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil on canvas<br />
<b>Title: </b>Headspace<br /><b>Year: </b>2013<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on linen<br /><b>Size: </b>60 x 70 cm
<b>Title: </b>From an edition of Galician paperweights (2)<br /><b>Year: </b>2012<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on paper<br /><b>Size: </b>30 x 30 cm
<b>Title: </b>From an edition of Galician paperweights (3)<br /><b>Year: </b>2012<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on paper<br /><b>Size: </b>30 x 30 cm
<b>Title: </b>From an edition of Mediterranean paperweights (1)<br /><b>Year: </b>2012<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on paper<br /><b>Size: </b>30 x 30 cm
<b>Title: </b>From an edition of Mediterranean paperweights (2)<br /><b>Year: </b>2012<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on paper<br /><b>Size: </b>30 x 30 cm
<b>Title: </b>Magic Combo Project (Master)<br /><b>Year: </b>2010<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on linen<br /><b>Size: </b>70 x 90 cm
<b>Title: </b>Meal Deal Archive (2)<br /><b>Year: </b>2010<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on linen<br /><b>Size: </b>35 x 30 cm
<b>Title: </b>O Aleman (Living at the Edge of the Universe) detail<br /><b>Year: </b>2011<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on canvas<br /><b>Size: </b>85 x 95 cm
<b>Title: </b>O Aleman (Living at the Edge of the Universe) detail<br /><b>Year: </b>2011<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on paper<br /><b>Size: </b>21 x 16 cm
<b>Title: </b>O Aleman (Living at the Edge of the Universe)<br /><b>Year: </b>2011<br /><b>Medium: </b>Oil and acrylic on paper and canvas<br /><b>Size: </b>Dimensions variable