Simon Periton
Born 1964, Kent; Lives in London.
Education
| 1990 | St. Martin's School of Art |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2018 | ‘YOUR WAR, MY LOVE’, GS Artists, Swansea |
| 2015 | ‘Multiple Store at Canary Wharf’, One Canada + Jubilee Park, London |
| ‘Celestial Agriculture’, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury | |
| 2013 | ‘The Rose Engine’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| 2012 | ‘Bombyx Mori’, Firstsite, Colchester (Commission) |
| 2011 | ‘Simon Periton and Alan Kane, The Asbo Mystery Play and other public works’, Sadie Coles HQ, London (69 South Audley Street) |
| ‘Simon Periton and Alan Kane, The Gild The Lily Flies’, Sadie Coles HQ, London (9 Balfour Mews) | |
| 2009 | ‘Spirits of Salt’, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
| 2008 | ‘A Rabble of Butterflies’, Galerist, Istanbul |
| 2007 | The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| ‘Back to Nature’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| ‘Sordid Sentimental’, Vacio 9, Madrid | |
| 2005 | ‘The Penis Mightier than the Sword’, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
| ‘Simon Periton’, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh | |
| 2004 | ‘Street’, Changing Role Gallery, Naples |
| ‘The Edge of the World’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| ‘Ragamuffin’, Vacio 9, Madrid | |
| 2003 | ‘Flag’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds |
| ‘Mint Poisoner’, Inverleith House, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Snip Riot Omen’, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow | |
| ‘Premonitions’, Gorney Bravin | |
| 2002 | ‘Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus Quinquefolia)’, collaboration with Raf Simons, Paris |
| ‘Cut’, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 2001 | ‘Simon Periton’, Galerist, Istanbul |
| ‘Cold warmed up’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| ‘Simon Periton’, Jablonka Galerie Linn Lühn, Cologne | |
| 2000 | ‘Argy Bharji’, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Statements Booth, Basel Art Fair | |
| 1999 | ‘Barroquade, Simon Periton’, foyer project at the Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1998 | Camden Arts Centre, London |
| 1997 | British Council Window Gallery, Prague |
| Habitat, Kings Road (with David Thorpe) | |
| ‘Dandeliceum’, Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| Skinner's Cage, London | |
| 1994 | ‘Strange Spectacle’, Gallerie 217, Sportsverbande (with Alan Kane) |
| 1993 | ‘Weekender’, Caledonia Street, London (with Alan Kane) |
| ‘Gild the Lily’, E1, London (with Alan Kane) | |
| 1992 | Bipasha Ghosh, London |
| 1991 | ‘Hope Project’, Frieze Art Fair, London (with Georgie Hopton) |
| ‘Olde World’, The Caraway Installation, Butlers Wharf (with Georgie Hopton) | |
| ‘Seeds of Hope’, Wilson Hale, London (with Georgie Hopton) |
Group Exhibitions
| 2019 | ‘On Paper’, Gallery Oldham, Oldham |
| ‘Alan Kane’s 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal’, The New Art Gallery Walsall | |
| ‘State of the Arts’, Selfridges, London | |
| 2018 | ‘Frieze Sculpture 2018’, Regent's Park, London |
| 2016 | ‘The Peculiar People’, Focal Point Gallery, Essex |
| ‘Uncommon Chemistry’, Observer Building, Hastings | |
| 2014 | ‘Regenerate Art’, Kunstverein Munchen, Germany (with Alan Kane) |
| ‘5 Pancras Square’, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London | |
| ‘Return Journey’, Mostyn, Lladudno | |
| 2012 | Artpace, San Antonio (Dikeou Collection / Artpace exhibition swap) |
| ‘Red, White and Blue’, CHELSEA space, London | |
| 2011 | ‘Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection’, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
| ‘The Hepworth Wakefield: A Celebration Backbone: Modern British Sculptors’, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury | |
| 2010 | ‘Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds |
| ‘The Term (Reality)’, Paul Stolper, London | |
| ‘The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art’, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne | |
| ‘E&K Arts Launch Collection’, Sotheby's, London ('the exhibition') | |
| 2009 | ‘The Dark Monarch’, Tate St Ives, Cornwall |
| ‘Love Me or Fuck Me but don't do both’, Flowers, London | |
| ‘Scherenschnitte — Kontur pur’, Museum Bellerive, Zurich | |
| ‘Directions’, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia | |
| ‘Collection of Contemporary Drawing’, MoMA, New York | |
| ‘Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection of Contemporary Drawing’, MoMA, New York | |
| 2008 | ‘London Calling’, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium |
| ‘Three by Three (3)’, Sunbury House, London | |
| ‘The Dark Monarch’, Tate St Ives, Cornwall | |
| 2007 | ‘Effigies’, Modern Art, London |
| ‘Wunschwelten’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt | |
| 2006 | ‘Paper’, Platform 3, London |
| ‘Sarah & Simon’, Platform 3, London | |
| ‘Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires’, Ancient & Modern, London | |
| ‘Webs, Loops, and Skeins in Modern and Contemporary Art’, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence | |
| 2005 | ‘Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Zurich |
| ‘England Their England’, Laden Fuer Nichts, Leipzig | |
| 2004 | ‘Four-ply’, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York |
| ‘Paper’, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London | |
| ‘Stategies of Desire’, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel | |
| Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy | |
| ‘Angelo Filomeno, Simon Periton, Philip Taaffee, Francesco Vezzoli, Gorney Bravin + Lee’, New York | |
| 2003 | ‘Guided by heroes’, a project by Z33, Hasselt |
| ‘Cut Out’, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich | |
| Contemporary British Art Exhibition, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle | |
| ‘Twilight’, Gimpel Fils, London | |
| ‘Post Flat’, Lock, Philadelphia | |
| ‘Rendered’, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York | |
| ‘The Unhomely’, Kettles Yard, Cambridge | |
| ‘In Portraiture Irrelevance is Ugliness’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart and Museum Schloss Hardenberg | |
| 2002 | Summer Exhibition, Kagan Martos Gallery |
| ‘My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love’, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen | |
| ‘mixer02’, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago | |
| 2001 | ‘Tailsliding’, Kunsthall, Bergen (British Council touring exhibition. Touring to Kunsthall, Bergen; Centre of Contemporary Art, Vilnius; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn; House of Artists, Brno; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Turku Art Museum, Turku) |
| ‘A new horizon’, Art:Concept, Paris | |
| ‘City Racing 1988-1998: a partial account’, ICA, London | |
| ‘SchattenRisse/Shadows, Silhouettes and Cut-outs’, Lenbbachaus Kunstbau, Munich | |
| ‘The Multiple Store’, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury | |
| ‘Dead’, The Roundhouse, London | |
| ‘Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis’, Tate Modern, London | |
| ‘Carts and rafts!’, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London | |
| ‘Lebensmuster (patterns of life)’, Museum Schloss Hardenberg | |
| 2000 | ‘Konfrontace’, Czech Centre, London |
| ‘INNER CITY PRESSURE’, Galerie No-D (roxy), Prague (curated by Radek Vana) | |
| ‘Hoxton HQ’, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London | |
| 1999 | ‘Show It Off’, Art.TM Gallery, Inverness |
| ‘NewOldTown’, Casey Kaplan, New York (curated by Liam Gillick) | |
| ‘Limit Less’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (curated by Matthew Higgs) | |
| ‘Natural Dependency’, Jerwood Space, London | |
| ‘Phillip Treacy- Autumn/Winter 1999 Collection’, New York Fashion and London Fashion Week, New York/London (collaboration on hat design) | |
| ‘Gallery Swap’, Sadie Coles HQ at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin | |
| ‘European Factory’, Villa delle Rose, Bologna | |
| ‘A Radiant Future’, Forde, Geneva | |
| ‘Papermake’, Modern Art, London | |
| ‘The Order of Things’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool | |
| 1998 | ‘Inbreeder’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
| ‘Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th Century Vision’, Firstsite, Colchester | |
| ‘Kettle Blue’, Galerie Beaux Arts, Luxembourg | |
| ‘Multiple Store’, ICA, London (inaugural show) | |
| ‘View Four’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple) | |
| ‘Lovecraft’, South London Gallery, London | |
| ‘Surfacing: Drawings by 20 Contemporary Artists’, ICA, London | |
| 1997 | ‘B.o.n.g.o.’, Bricks and Kicks, Vienna |
| ‘Space Oddities’, Canary Wharf Window Gallery, London | |
| ‘Snowflakes Falling on the International Dateline’, Casco Projects, Utrecht | |
| ‘Fish and Chips’, Diverse Works, Houston (TX) | |
| ‘Landy, Periton, Simpson’, Habitat, Manchester | |
| ‘619 KBB 75, Mobile 2000’, Laurence Hazout, Paris | |
| ‘Victoria’, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London | |
| ‘Imprint 93’, Norwich Gallery, Norwich | |
| Zone Photographic Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| ‘Superstore’ | |
| ‘Let's Rock’, Alexandra Mansions, Norwich | |
| ‘Lovecraft’, CCA, Glasgow (The South London Gallery, London) | |
| ‘Popocultural 2’, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton | |
| 1996 | ‘21 Days of Darkness’, Transmission, Glasgow |
| ‘Supastore De Luxe’, Up & Co, New York | |
| ‘Poppocultural’, South London Gallery, London | |
| ‘Co-operators’, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton | |
| ‘Kiss This’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend | |
| 1995 | ‘Imprint 93’, City Racing, London |
| 1994 | ‘WM Karaoke’, Portikus, Frankfurt |
| ‘Constable, can't you see my predicament?’, Clacton-on-Sea | |
| 1993 | ‘Van de Siecle’, London |
| ‘Purpose-built New England’, Realartways, Hartford | |
| 1992 | ‘Modern Art’, Seven Sisters, London |
| 1990 | ‘A Summerplace’, Salama Caro, London (curated by Stuart Morgan) |
Bibliography
Press
| 2022 | Peter Nilson: ‘The art of the Elizabeth Line gives stations an identity’, Railway Technology, 01/06/2022 |
| 2009 | Lack, Jessica: ‘Artist of the week 32: Simon Periton’, The Guardian, 11/03/2009 |
| Sherwin, Skye: ‘Simon Periton’, Art Review, Issue 30 03/2009 | |
| Ward, Ossian: ‘In the studio: Simon Periton’, Time Out, 19/02/2009 | |
| Bracewell, Micheal: ‘Something Supernatural, This Way Comes’, Tate etc., 2009 | |
| 2007 | Schwabsky, Barry: ‘Simon Periton’, Artforum, 12/2007 |
| Mottram, James: ‘Ideas that look great on paper’, The Herald, 26/01/2007 | |
| McDermott, Leon: ‘Simon Periton’, The Metro, 24/01/2007 | |
| Lack, Jessica: ‘Serious Simon’, V&A Magazine, Number 12 2007 | |
| 2006 | Untitled: ‘Work in Progress: Italian Graffiti’, V magazine, 2006 |
| 2004 | Roberts, Bill: ‘Simon Periton’, Art Review, 12/2004 |
| O’Grady, Sean: ‘Britart Gets on its Scooter’, The Independent, 09/11/2004 | |
| Shuckburgh, Hannah: ‘Wheeler-Dealers’, Art Review, 11/2004 | |
| Thoburn, Russell: ‘Frieze! You’re Alive‘, The New Statesman, 31/10/2004 | |
| Güner, Fisun: ‘Scalpel Carves a Riot of Colour’, Metro, 27/10/2004 | |
| Casadio, Mariuccuia: ‘Not Allowed’, Vogue Italia, Number 649 09/2004 | |
| Clark, Robert: ‘Faces and Diamond Dust Volume One’, The Guardian Guide, 28/08/2004 | |
| Johnson, Ken: ‘Four-Ply’, The New York Times, 06/08/2004 | |
| Jana, Reena: ‘Four-Ply’, Time Out NY, Number 465 08/2004 | |
| Horsey, Len: ‘Strange Attractor’, Flux, 05/2004 | |
| Lafuente, Pablo: ‘Sample Simon’, Art Review, 04/2004 | |
| ‘Artists and Artworks’, Channel 4, 2004 | |
| Furniss, Jo-Ann: ‘Pop! And the art of Simon Periton’, Show, Issue 2 2004 | |
| 2003 | Wilsher, Mark: ‘Wittgenstein: Family Likenesses/The Unhomely’, Art Monthly, 12/2003 |
| Comer, Stuart: ‘Teenage Fan Club’, Art Review, 09/2003 | |
| Gale, Iain: ‘Getting back to Nature’, Scotland on Sunday, 13/07/2003 | |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Looking for trouble in paradise’, The Herald, 06/07/2003 | |
| Wilson, Sue: ‘The eyes nearly have it’, The Metro, 25/06/2003 | |
| Dallas, Sorcha: ‘Simon Periton: Snip Riot Omen’, The List, 10/04/2003 | |
| Kimmelman, Michael: ‘Simon Periton, Premonitions’, The New York Times, 07/03/2003 | |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Simon Periton’, Contemporary, Issue 50 2003 | |
| 2002 | Kino, Carol: ‘Report from London: Life after YBA-mania’, Art in America, 10/2002 |
| Wingfield, Jonathan: ‘Cutting Edge’, Numero, 07/2002 | |
| Dorment, Richard: ‘Academy of cool’, The Daily Telegraph, 05/06/2002 | |
| Potter, Peter de: ‘The things we do for art: Simon Periton’, i-D, Number 220 05/2002 | |
| 2001 | Buck, Louisa: ‘Untitled’, The Art Newspaper, Number 115 06/2001 |
| Clark, Paul: ‘Simon Periton’, Evening Standard, 31/05/2001 | |
| Güner, Fisun: ‘Simon Periton, Cold warmed up’, The Metro, 30/05/2001 | |
| Lack, Jessica: ‘Simon Periton, Cold warmed up’, The Guardian Guide, 26/05/2001 | |
| Sumpter, Helen: ‘‘Punk’s not dead. It’s just making paper doilies.’‘, The Big Issue, 21/05/2001 | |
| Morgan-Griffiths, Lauris: ‘The Last Round-Up’, Evening Standard, 02/03/2001 | |
| Exley, Roy: ‘Raids on the Beautiful’, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 17 02/2001 | |
| 2000 | Muir, Robin: ‘No frills’, The Independent, 09/2000 |
| Intra, Giovanni: ‘Simon Periton, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery’, artext, Number 69 05/2000 | |
| (illustration): ‘Periton, Simon’, The Face, 04/2000 | |
| Schlegell, Mark von: ‘Simon Periton, Argy Bharji - Karyn Lovegrove Gallery’, Zing Magazine, Number 12 2000 | |
| Leonforte, Pierre: ‘The New Maestros of Murano’, Vogues Hommes International, 2000 | |
| 1999 | Wakefield, Neville: ‘Three to watch’, Elle Dècor, 08/1999 |
| Clark, Robert: ‘Riddles wrapped in an enigma’, The Guardian, 24/04/1999 | |
| Guha, Tania: ‘Simon Periton, Camden Arts Centre’, Time Out London, 20/01/1999 | |
| 1998 | Searle, Adrian: ‘Come on, act your age’, The Guardian, 15/12/1998 |
| Grant, Simon: ‘Simon Periton’, The Guardian Guide, 05/12/1998 | |
| Windsor, John: ‘Dramatic ceramics reveal potted histories’, The Independent, 21/04/1998 | |
| Mahoney, Elisabeth: ‘Inbreeder’, Art Monthly, Number 215 04/1998 | |
| Buck, Louisa: ‘Simon Periton, (interview)’, The Art Newspaper, 01/1998 | |
| Grabner, Michelle: ‘Cut Out and Keep’, Frieze, Issue 42 1998 | |
| McEwen, Adam: ‘Simon Periton: Sadie Coles HQ’, Zing Magazine, Number 2 1998 | |
| 1997 | Lillington, David: ‘Simon Periton’, Metropolis M, Number 5 10/1997 |
| Craddock, Sacha: ‘Around the London galleries’, The Times, 15/07/1997 | |
| Timoney, Padraig: ‘Simon Periton’, Art Monthly, Number 208 07/1997 | |
| 1996 | Burrows, David: ‘Popoccultural’, Art Monthly, Number 202 12/1996 |
| Feldman, Melissa E.: ‘21 Days of Darkness’, Art Monthly, Number 195 04/1996 | |
| Barrett, David: ‘Kiss This’, Art Monthly, Number 195 04/1996 | |
| 1994 | Grant, Simon: ‘World Cup Karaoke’, Art Monthly, Number 179 1994 |
| 1993 | Conor, Joyce: ‘Modern Art’, Art Monthly, Number 163 02/1993 |
| 1992 | Michael Corris: ‘Invisible/ w. Attitude’, Artforum, 05/1992 |
| Corris, Michael: ‘Simon Periton’, Artforum, 1992 | |
| 1991 | Lillington, David: ‘Untitled’, Time Out London, 04/1991 |
| 1990 | Lillington, David: ‘Untitled’, Time Out London, 1990 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2013 | ‘Simon Periton "The Rose Engine" at The Modern Institute’, Mousse Blog, 06/03/2013 |
Publications
| 2015 | Pollinator, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford |
| 2012 | Simon Periton, Bombyx Mori, firstsite, Essex |
| 2011 | The Asbo Mystery Play and Other Public Works, Sadie Coles HQ, London |
| 2008 | Simon Periton, Walther Koenig, Cologne |
| 2003 | Simon Periton, SCHQ; TMI; Inverleith House |
| Simon Periton, (monograph), Sadie Coles HQ, London | |
| 2002 | Royal Academy Illustrated 2002, Royal College of Art, London |
| 1998 | Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th Century Vision, Hayward Publishing, London |
| Simon Periton, Camden Arts Centre, London |
Exhibition Publications
| 2011 | Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (Exhibition catalogue) |
| 2005 | Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt |
| 2004 | Sabine, Strategies of Desire, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel |
| 2002 | My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen |
| The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge | |
| 2001 | Patterns of Life, Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert |
| Tailsliding, British Council, London | |
| 1999 | Officina Europa/ European Factory, Villa delle Rose, Bologna |
| 1997 | Fish and Chips, Diverse Works Artspace, Houston |
| 1996 | Co-operators, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton |
| 1995 | We are Medi(eval), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main |
| 1993 | Van de Siecle, Lisson Gallery, London |
| 1992 | Modern Art, Seven Sisters, London |
| 1990 | A Summerplace, Salamo Caro, London |
| Strange Spectacle, Gallerie 217, Frankfurt am Main |