Simon Willems

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

The advantages of failure, Vegas Gallery, London, 2008

Cloud Music, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, 2008

Determinator, Galerie Polaris, Paris, 2008

You must enjoy it like this, Galerie-Polaris, Paris, 2006

Don’t go weird on me, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, 2006

Strangeways here we come, Wallspace , New York, 2005

Recent cave painting and other exploits, Galerie-Polaris, Paris, 2004

Bad things even happen to nice people, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France, 2004

Folk Law, Percymiller Gallery, London, 2002

Death to the Archers, Galerie-Polaris, Paris, 2001

Percymiller Gallery, London, 2001

Selected Group Exhibitions

No end in sight Vegas Gallery London, 2009

Phenomenon-New perspectives in painting Al-Sabah Art, Dubai, UAE, 2009

Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Duerle, Belgium, 2008

Abeebopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London, 2008

Terra Firma FOLD Gallery, London, 2008

Fake ID Vegas Gallery, London, 2008

l’experience utile, Galerie Polaris, Paris, 2008

Drawings Peacock Projects - Pullens Yard, London, 2008

No end in sight Galerie Polaris, Paris, 2008

Project (OR) Centrifugal Projects, Art Rotterdam (Art Brussels, Art Amsterdam), 2008

Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway, 2007

Galerie Polaris, Paris, 2007

Inter-view - gallery The space, Seoul, Korea, 2007

Ground Zero, Size Zero, Vegas Gallery, London, 2007

A travers le miroir (le secret) -Musee d’art et d’Archeolgie, Aurillac, France, 2007

Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, Austria, 2007

(LA-Art in New York, Art Brussels, Art Chicago, Pulse-London, FIAC Paris, Pulse Miami), 2007

Flow Charting Raid Projects, Los Angeles, 2006

London Elsewhere Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Manheim, Germany, 2006

Mon de l’ouvre – l’ouvre Galerie Polaris, Paris, 2006

Mark Moore Gallery Presents’ at Rokeby, London, 2006

Une simple question de temps, Musee Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay, France, 2006

(Art Brussels, Pulse-New York, Art Copenhagen, FIAC Paris, Pulse-Miami, NADA Artfair Miami), 2006

Extensions du paysage - Espace Boudeville, Dompierre sur Besbre, France FIAC Paris, Art Rotterdam, NADA Artfair Maimi, 2005

39 Xmas show –, 39 Mitchell St - London, 2004

Soleil Vert Musse D’art Roger Quillot, France, 2004

Sale et Sucre - Galerie-Polaris, Paris, 2004

(Art Brussels, FIAC Paris, NADA Artfair Miami), 2004

Side Track -, Percy Miller Gallery, London, 2003

Sale et Sucre –, Galerie Polaris, Paris, 2003

Western Spaghetti (Les nouveaux conquerants), Clermont Ferrand, France, 2003

La Maitre des ombres –, Fonds d’art et Contemporain, Montlucon, France, 2003

(Artissima Bologna, FIAC Paris, Art Brussels), 2003

Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, 2002

Four Colleges (A T Kearney HQ), London, 2002

Reverbere Gallery, Lyon (France), 2002

(Art Brussels, FIAC Paris, Art Turin, Art Cologne), 2002

Miniature Madness –, Winkley St Studios, London (Art Brussels, FIAC Paris), 2001

Recent Works, Galerie Polaris, Paris, 2000

Soft & Gentle, Gallery Westland Place, London, 2000

Assembly-Project, Jubilee Street (Whitechapel), London, 2000

Together Again, Pumphouse Gallery, London, 2000

En-route , Galerie Claudia Gros-selbeck, Dusseldorf (FIAC Paris), 2000

RCA Group Show, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1999

Crinkle Wharf Gallery, London, 1997

Gilchrist Fisher Award, Cadogan Contemporary, London, 1996

Just Found , St.Baafsabdij (Gent) Belgium, 1993

NATFHE Headquarters, London, 1992

Selected Books & Catalogues

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 & Reviews

Autumn 2008 Ken Pratt- Only when I laugh – Simon Willems – WOUND magazine p.261-5

September 2008 Allison Gibson – ‘Beautiful Decay’ Cloud Music at Mark Moore gallery p.10

May 2008 critiCAL – ‘ARTslant Los Angeles’ Cloud Music at Mark Moore Gallery (online)

March 23rd 2007 Valerie Duponchelle, ‘Le Figaro’ (online)

Dec 2005 Art Review - Bright Young Things - p.103

May-Sep 2004 Eric Fayet – ‘Flashart’ – At the galleries – p.53

April 17th 2004 La Montagne Celebrer l’irrecevable (France)

April/May 2004 ‘Particules’ (No.4) - (France)

Nov 1st 2002 Jessica Lack – ‘The Guardian’ (The Guide – Previews) – p.35

Mar 2002 ArtPress – Arthur Charles Bowyer – Promenade p.80 (France)

Jan 2002 ‘Beaux Arts’ Magazine (France)

Jan 1st –7th 2002 ‘Zurban-Paris’ (France)

Dec 10th-17th 2001‘A Nous Paris’ – N. 117 (France)

Nov 28th-Dec 4th 2001 Emmanuelle Lequex -‘Le Monde’ (Aden) ‘Les Arts’ – (France) –p.27

June 2001 Louisa Buck – ‘The Art Newspaper’ No.115 - , p.73

June 13-20th 2001 Jim Healy – ‘What’s On’, p.25

June 11th2001 Jessica Lack – ‘The Guardian’ (G2) ‘Picks of the week’ – p.18

May 2001 Art Review – p.55

9th Sep 2000 John Russell Taylor – ‘The Times’ (Metro), p.42.

20 Aug 2000 Charlotte Mullins – The New Sensation – Independent on Sunday

12th Jan 1996 Iain Gale – ‘The Week’ (Issue 32), p.18

6th Jan 1996 Iain Gale – ‘The Independent’

Selected Collections

Zabludovicz Collection

David Roberts Collection

Leonard Nimoy Collection

Art Review

FRAC Auvergne (France)

FRAC Haute-Normandie (France)

Fondation COLAS, France

Frederick Weisman Foundation

Various Private Collections worldwide