Contact
me@simonfaithfull.org
born: 22/10/66

 

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Simon Faithfull - Selected Video Works, Gallerie Polaris, Paris.
2006 Ice Blink, Parker’s Box, New York, USA
Ice Blink, Stills, Edinbugh, Scotland
Ice Blink, Cell, London 
2005 Antarctica Dispatches, CCA, Glasgow (+screens at: ICA, Southampton City Gallery)
2004 Hard Drive, ICA (digital studio), London
Vanishing Point - Pump House, Battersea, London
30Km, Film and Video Umbrella Commission - Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2003 Dreamland, Turner Contemporary, Margate
30Km, Woolaton Hall (Now festival), Nottingham, (Film and Video Umbrella commission)
Terrestial Investigation #256, SPACE, London
2002 Dogends, Transit Space, London
Psychotopography, Artsway, Hampshire
2000 Moth Island, Lotts island and Watermans Arts Centre, London
1999 'Y', Veemvloer Gallery, Amsterdam
1998 Hertford Union , Chisenhale Gallery , London

 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2008 Simon Faithfull & Carla Guagliardi - Schwerlos. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Crows from Berlin – Tavistock Square, London. (part of In Transit ).
Fake Moon – nightly intervention for the Big Chill festival, UK.
Shy Fountain - Skulpturen im Park: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.
Art Futures - Bloomberg Space, London.
2007 [C]artography: Map Making as an Artform - Sept, Crawford Gallery, Cork
Inter-Faces - Sept, Soros Center for Contemporary art, Kazakhstan
New Forest Pavilion – 52nd Venice Bienalle, Italy
Artists' Airshow II, Gunpowder Park, London (Arts Catalyst event)
Nébuleuses – LIA, Grenoble, France
Selection Box – Parker’s Box, New York
Lost O – Ashford, UK
It Starts From Here – De La Warr Pavilion, UK
Experience Insulair – Credac, Paris
Animated Stories, CaixaForum Palma, Palma de Mallorca
Animated Stories, Le Fresnoy, France
Das Buch, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Germany
2006 Anstoß Berlin - Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Animated Stories - CaixaForum, Barcelona
Animated Stories - Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
Sarah & Simon Show - Platform, London
Timeless, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Strangers With Angelic Faces – Akbank Art Gallery, Istanbul
Strangers With Angelic Faces - Space Triangle, London
Tekenlust/Drawing Lust - Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium
Whistable Bienalle - Kent, UK
The Animators, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Wandering Rocks, Gimpel Fils, London
Videodyssey - Parker's Box, New York
Videodyssey - Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
2005 The Animators, Angel Row, Nottingham
To Be Continued, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland – British Council group show
Penguin Repopulation Project, London Zoo – commission for Zoo Art Fair
Dis&apparence, Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Switzerland
Beacon, Lincolnshire – site specific commissions
East05, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
The Mind is a horse (part II), Bloomberg Space, London

Draw!, Gallerie du Jour agnesB, Paris
The Future Is Stupid, MAMA, Rotterdam
Throb, Parker’s Box, New York
2004 No one knows the colours…, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Dwellen, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark
White Station, Pump House Gallery, London
Artist’s Air Show, Farnborough - Arts Catalyst curated live-event
Remote Control, Angel Row, Nottingham
Time On Your Hands, Standpoint Gallery, London
Artschool, Bloomberg SPACE, London
2003 13 messages, email project commissioned by low-fi for DMZ
Bag Lady, Cell, London
The Map is Not The Territory III, Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham Market Forces, group online project
Bad Quality, Winchester Gallery + Millais Gallery, Southampton
2002 Simon Faithfull & Bruno Peinado, Parker's Box, New York
The Map is Not The Territory, England & Co. - group show
EMail Art, Centre of Attention - email project
Border Line, Veemvloer Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland - group show
Flow, Regents Canal, London - site specific project
2001 A Record Of Events, Hales Gallery, London - group show
Drawing Quirks, 'Parker's Box', New York, USA - group show
Temporary Accommodation, Whitechapel Gallery, UK - 4 commissions
2000 Triangle, New York, USA - Residency
Parklight (6 artists commissions), Clissold Park, London - group show
Week of Small Miracles, Site-specific projects
Include Me Out, London - Group Show
1999 Land of Milk and Honey, Catalyst Arts, Belfast - group show
1998 Campaign Against Living Miserably, Royal College of Art - group show

 

Work in Public Collections

  Arts Council Collection - 30Km, video
Government Art Collection – 13, video
V22 Collection, London – 30km, video

 

Television Commissions

2004 ‘13’, 5min, Channel4/Arts council commission, screened C4, Nov 04 – writer/director
1996 Isle of Dogs, 10 min, BBC/BFI commission, screened BBC2 (96, 98, 99) - co-writer/director

 

Public Commissions

2006 Lea, Department of Culture, Media & Sport, London – permanent commission
2005 175ft above Birmingham, University Hospital, Birmingham – permanent commission
2000 Way, Mole Gap Trail, Surrey - permanent commission 

 

Residencies

2005 Helsinki + Lapland, British Council/HIAP
2004 Antarctic Residency with British Antarctic Survey
2000 Triangle, New York, USA – Residency
1997 Tulipamwe, Namibia - residency and exhibition
1995-98 Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxon, UK - co-founder & coordinator

 

Teaching

2003 - present Slade School of Fine Art – Lecturer
2000 - 2003 Goldsmiths University, Fine Art/ Hist. Of Art – visiting lecturer
2000 - 2003 Camberwell School of Art – visiting lecturer
2003   Nottingham Trent University – visiting lecturer
2002   University of Westminster - visiting lecturer
    University Of Birmingham – visiting lecturer
2001   Central St Martins School of Art – visiting lecturer
2000   University of East London, Architecture Dept. – visiting lecturer

 

Talks & Lectures

2007 Artists' Airshow II, Gun Powder Park, London - Gravity Sucks - an ‘illustrated lecture’
Pallazo Zenobia, 52nd Venice Bienalle, Italy - Ice Blink - an ‘illustrated lecture’
British Pavilion, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, - 'Engage' Pannel Discussion
Hayward Gallery, London (100 Ideas - AN EVENING OF OFF-THE-WALL ARTISTS' LECTURES) - Ice Blink
2006 Royal Antiquaries Society, London - Ice Blink - an ‘illustrated lecture’
National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh - Ice Blink - an ‘illustrated lecture’
Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York - Ice Blink - an ‘illustrated lecture’

Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin - Ice Blink - an ‘illustrated lecture’
2005 Helsinki Photography Festival - Ice Blink - an ‘illustrated lecture’
East05, Norwich Gallery, UK - Ice Blink - an ‘illustrated lecture’
Tate Britain - The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton and Simon Faithfull
2004 Workshop on the Preservation of Digital Art,CCA - speaker
Tate Modern, Thames Path, Workshop
Serpentine Gallery, Gallery talk (State of Play)
Tate Liverpool, Artist’s talk (Stage of drawing)
2003 Turner Contemporary, Margate, Artists talk
2002 CCA, Glasgow – speaker at new media conference
1999 Cruisin project - ICA Seminar (with Susan Collins) – speaker, chair
1999 Waiting Room - Photographers gallery - talk
1998 Curating the Net - ICA cached Seminar - Speaker

 

Selected Bibliography

2006 Simon Faithfull, Ice Blink, published by Bookworks ISBN 1 870699 92 0
Simon Faithfull, Lost, published by Laconic ISBN 3-00-018660-3
Die Metropole am Waldsee: Bald ist Anstoss, Monopol magazine, june/july
KATRIN BETTINA MÜLLER, Standort Stadtrand, Die Tageszeitung 22. Juni (Germany)
Gabriela Walde, Schaufenster Berlin, Die Welt, 22 June
Sarah Kent, Simon Faithfull, Review: Ice Blink –Cell, Time Out, April 19
Sarah Kent, Simon Faithfull, The art profile, Time Out, April 19
The New Yorker Simon Faithfull Galleries/Brooklyn, May 1st
Julia Dault, Visual stimulation:A guide to Images Festival, National Post, April13 (Canada)
GABRIEL COXHEAD, Drawing - Crossing the line, FinancialTimes, Weekend mag, 25 March
Angela Kingston, The Animators, Catalogue published by Angel Row Gallery, June
2005 Gabriela Walde, Der Kunstler, der in die Kalte fuhr, Die Welt, 8. January
2005 Colin Berry, Icy Palms, I.D. magazine, March/April
2005 Berg Watching, Guardian Unlimited, 14th Jan
2004 Sebastian Borger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec 2004
Alexander Menden, Nachrichten aus dem Nichts, Süddeutche Zeitung, 23 Nov
Roger Cox, Electronic lines on an epic voyage across the frozen Southern Ocean, The Scotsman, 14th December
Karin Goodwin, E-mail artist to send daily show from Antarctic trek, The Sunday Times – Scotland, 5th December
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Dwellen (catalogue for Dwellen exhibition, Copenhagen)
Martin Coomer, Simon Faithful – Pump House, Time Out 14th-21st July
Deborah Dean, Remote Control (catalogue for Angel Row exhibition, Nottingham)
Simon Faithfull, Ideas Vol.1 (published by Pump House Gallery )
2003 Donna De Salvo, Virtually Anywhere (essay), Dreamland (published by Turner Contemporary)
2002 Click Art, Design Week, 8th Aug
2002 Helen Sumpter, The Great Escape, The Big Issue, 18th-24th March
2002 Sally O’Reilly, Screen Works (Catalogue for Psychotopography exhibition), Artsway Publication
  Rebecca Geldard, Simon Faithfull – Transit Space, Time Out, 18th May
2001 Duncan McLaren, Temporary Accommodation – Whitechapel Art gallery, Independent on Sunday, 4th Feb
  Whitechapel Gallery, Temporary Accommodation, (catalogue for Temporary Accommodation exhibition – including interview with Faithfull by Laurence Sillars)
1998 David Lillington, Simon Faithfull – Chisenhale Gallery, Art Monthly, November
1998 Simon Faithfull, Adelaide (booklet published by Faithfull and Chisenhale gallery)
1997 Tripod, Faithfull Publications

 

Education

1994 - 1996 Master of Fine Art - Reading University
1986 - 1989 BA First Class - Central St Martins School of Art