SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 2023
  8 B.P.M. (Experiments with Time), Galerie Polaris, Paris
• 2021
  Fata Morgana, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Miami, USA
• 2020
  Memories From The Future, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
• 2019
  Fathom, The Exchange, Penzance, UK
• Koexistenz (Simon Faithfull+Sybille Neumeyer), Naturkunde Museum, Berlin
• Elsewhen, Hestercombe House, Sommerset, UK
• 2017
  Does The World Exist, When I’m Not There?, Galerie Polaris, Paris
• Video Art at Midnight #83: Simon Faithfull, Babylon Mitte, Berlin
• 2016
  Zero, Sprinhornhof Kunstverein, Germany
• 2015
  RECIF 2 : Traversée , Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France
• 2014
  RECIF 1: Antipode, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
• REEF, Fabrica, Brighton, UK
• 2012
  An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity, ArtConnexion, Lille
•  An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity, Phoenix Art Centre, Leicester, UK
• 2011
  Going Nowhere, New York, Parker’s Box, USA
• An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity, National Museum (Project Space), Berlin
• 2010
  Voyages Extraordinaires (Simon Faithfull+Christoph Keller), CRAC Alsace, France
• Recent Findings, Harris Museum, Preston, UK
• 2009
  Gravity Sucks, British Film Institute Gallery, London
• Schwerlos (Simon Faithfull+Carla Guagliardi), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
• 2008
  Simon Faithfull – Selected Video Works, Galerie Polaris, Paris
• 2006
  Ice Blink, Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Ice Blink, Cell Projects, London
• Ice Blink, Parker’s Box, New York
• 2005
  Antarctica Dispatches, CCA Glasgow
• 2004
  Vanishing Point, Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea, London
• 30Km, Aspex Gallery Portsmouth
• 2002
  Simon Faithfull & Bruno Peinado, New York, Parker’s Box, USA
• Psychotopography, Artsway, UK
• 1998
  Hertford Union, Chisenhale Gallery, London

Work in Public Collections

• Centre Pompidou Collection, France
• Government Art Collection, UK
• Frac Franche-Comté Collection, France
• FRAC Basse Normandie Collection, France
• MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
• University of Salford Art Collection, UK
• V22 Collection, London, UK
• LABoral, Gijon, Spain

PERMANENT PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

• 2023
  0°00 Navigation part 2 – A Journey Across Europe and Africa, The Line sculpture trail, London
• 2019
  The Cambridge Erratics, Cambridge University, UK
• 2015
  Viewing Device for the Planet, Nuffield Health, Cambridge, UK
• 2013
  Shy Fountain, Bristol Harbourside, UK
• 2010
  Liverpool to Liverpool (Liverpool Bienale), Lime St Station, Liverpool, UK
• 2006
  Lea, Department of Culture, Media & Sport, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS (since: 2015)

• 2024
  Fungi Forms – Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
• ZEITSCHICHTEN – Wehrmuehle Museum, Biesenthal, Germany
• Horizon and limit. Visions of landscape – CaixaForum Barcelona, Spain
• Marathon, La Course du Messager – Musée de la Post, Paris
• DECENNIUM – Hestercombe Gallery, UK
• Mythologíes – Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Brieuc, France
• Journal Intime, Carnet de Voyage, Livre de Board – CAC Meymac, France
• How to Whisper to the Ocean – Stade Nautique, Pau, France (Grand Palais ‘Art & Sport’)
• 2023
  Sea Change – curated by ‘Invisible Dust’ for Royal Docks, London
• Videoart at Midnight at BAW Garten – Neue Nationalgalerie
• Horizon and Limit, CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain
• Faut-il voyager pour être heureux?, Clermont Ferrand, France
• Watermark, Meadow Arts, Worcester, UK
• Lichtspiele, Axel Obiger Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
• 2022
  Faut-il voyager pour être heureux?, EDF Foundation, Paris
• Orbital no.2: Berlin, BERLIN-WEEKLY, Germany
• Le Monde Est Tout Ce Qui Est – OVNi Festival (Objectif Vidéo Nice), Nice, France
• Tipping the Drop, Kunstraum m3’ , Berlin
• The Sea Around Us, Artconnexion, Lille, France
• Tideline, Messums Wiltshire, UK
• 2021
  Rooms to Breathe, ‘The 5th floor’ , Tokyo, Japan
• The Fine Hands Show, Museum Ploschad Mira, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
• Estuary Festival, Margate + Southend, UK
• Where To Stand In The Wind, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, UK
• Bon Voyage, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
• SEA PIECES, Facts and Fictions, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
• 2020
  Un Été Indien, Frac Normandie Caen, France
• SEA PIECES – Facts and Fictions, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Germany
• Equilibrium Delay, KOGO Gallery, Estonia
• Navigating Berlin II – Design & Cognition, CLB Gallery, Berlin
• 2019
  The Final Frontier, The Artists Residence, Herzliya, Israel
• Taking The Leap (from University of Salford collections), PHOTOFAIRS, Shanghai, China
• Under Water, Filatoio di Caraglio, Cuneo, Italy
• Europe After The Rain (Curator), Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
• The Night Face Up, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland
• Ways of Seeing (Government Art Collection), Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019, London
• Lignes de Vies – Une Exposition de Légendes, Mac Val, Paris
• Water Rising, Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn, UK
• 2018
  Through The Looking Glass, Cob Gallery, London
• DEADPAN (Buster Keaton, Simon Faithfull, Tim Knowles), Galerie Andreas Schmidt, Berlin
• La No Comunidad, CentroCentro, Madrid
• Macro Asilo, MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma), Rome
• In Pursuit of Elusive Horizons, Parafin, London
• Il Sole é Cioce, Galerie Polaris, Paris
• L’Envol, ou le Rêve de Voler, Maison Rouge, Paris
• At Altitude, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
• Né(e)s de L’écume et des Rêves, MuMa, Le Havre, France
• Scaling The Sublime, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
• 4th Mardin Biennial, Turkey
• One Orbit of the Sun, Haus Am Waldsee @ Bikini Berlin (temporary project space)
• Oceans, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, France
• Expedition Nature, Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
• The Crisis of the Horizon, Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway
• 2017
  Connectivites, Mucem, Marseille, France
• Expedition Nature, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
• Private Choices (Collection Nicole et Olivier G.), Bruxelles, Belgium
• An Eyeful of Wry, Government Art Collection, University of Hull
• Cyclic Journey, The Geothe Institute, Barcelona
• L’Art Chemin Faisant, Atelier Estienne, France
• IM_MOBILITIES, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
• Caminar, Pensar …Derivar, CDAN, Huesca, Spain
• Counterpoints – Kunst im Park 2017, Schloss Grafenegg, Austria
• Between Spaces, ZK”R, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
• Wanderlust, The International 3, Manchester
• Somewhere Becoming Sea, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK
• La Vie Aquatique, MRAC, Sérignan, France
• Le Satellite, L’Art contemporain près de chez vous, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon
• 2016
  Club Monster, Asia Culture Centre, Gwanju, South Korea
• Linear Momentum, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
• Videocity, Videosea (Knut Åsdam, Marcel Dinahet, Simon Faithfull), FRAC Basse Normadie, France
• Images Festival, Vevey, Switzerland
• Sous le soleil exactement Coucher de soleil et lever de rideau, CAB, Grenoble, France
• Man Made, Raversyde Museum, Oostende, Belgium
• Innbundet / Ubundet, Norske Grafikere, Oslo
• Terrain: Land into Art, Hestercombe Gallery, UK
• 2015
  L’Epais Réel, La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
• They Shall Have Stars, NN – Contemporary Art Northampton, UK
• Hors les Murs, Musée des arts et métiers + Yia Art Fair #05, Paris
• Risk, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
• Urban Lights Ruhr, Hagen, Germany
• Linear Momentum, TBC Art Inc, Melbourne, Australia
• In Search of the Miraculous, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
• On the Edge, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, Germany
• Walking Sculpture 1967-2015, de Cordova Museum, USA
• Der Traum vom Fliegen, Mewo-Kunsthalle, Germany
• Sebald Variations, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
• Chercher le Garçon, MACVAL, Paris, France

Archive: 2014 – 1998 here

Selected Teaching

• 2003 – Ongoing
  Professor of Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
• 2019
  HfBK Dresden Academy, Germany – Workshop: ‘Elsewhen’
• 2016
  Bergen Academy of Art, Norway – ‘Navigation’ seminar/workshop
• 2012 – 2015
  Manchester Metropolitan University – External Examiner, Manchester, England
• 2011 – 2016
  Royal Academy of Art the Hague, Netherlands – PhD supervisor
• 2010
  HDK-Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden, – ‘Opponent’ for final exam
• 2000 – 2003
  Goldsmiths University, London, UK – Fine Art/ Hist. Of Art – visiting lecturer

Residencies

• 2021
  Finis Terrae, Centre d’art insulaire, Créac’h Lighthouse & Semaphore, Isle of Ouessant, France
• 2017
  Artsail, Florida, USA
• Terra Foundation of American Art, Giverny, France – Senior Fellow
• 2011
  Residency on P&O Ferry (Calais<–>Dover), through ‘ArtConnexion’, France
• 2010
  ‘Tracing Mobility’ / ‘SubArt’, Razanj, Croatia
• 2008
  ‘Tracing Mobility’, Schloss Bröllin, Brandenburg, Germany
• 2005
  British Council/HIAP – Helsinki + Lapland, Finland
• 2004 – 2005
  British Antarctic Survey + Arts Council England – International Fellowship in Antarctica
• 2000
  Triangle Arts Association – 97th Floor, World Trade Centre, New York, USA
• 1997
  Tulipamwe, Triange Network Worshop, Namibia
• 1995 – 1998
  Braziers International Artists Workshop – co-founder & coordinator

TELEVISION COMMISSIONS

• 2004
  ’13’ – for: Animate! (Channel 4/Arts Council England, UK) – writer+director
• 1995
  Isle of Dogs – for: 10 x10 (BBC2/BFI, UK) – co-writer + co-director

Publications

• 2023
  Faithfull – 0º00 Navigation Part II: A Journey Across Europe and Africa, The Line, London
• 2022
  Faithfull – 8 BPM, Art Connexion, France + Laconic, Berlin
• 2019
  Faithfull – Explaining Taxonomy to a Bird, ISBN 978-3-00-065778-8, Welcome, UK + Natural History Museum, Berlin + Laconic, Berlin
• 2016
  Faithfull – Does The World Exist When I’m Not There, ISBN 978-3-00-055136-9, Sprinhornhof Kunstverein, Germany + Laconic, Berlin
• 2014
  Faithfull – Things, ISBN 9783000455131, Hoodwink, UK + Laconic, Berlin
• 2012
  Faithfull – King’s Cross: A Pictorial Guide (Unreliable), ISBN 978-1-907208-27-0, Camden Arts Centre, UK
• Faithfull – An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity – ISBN 9783000376221, Art Connexion, France
• 2010
  Faithfull – Liverpool to Liverpool (essay by Joe Moran) ISBN 9781846314889, Liverpool University Press, UK
• 2009
  Faithfull – Accident Book, ISBN 9783000276750, UCLH Arts, UK & Laconic, Berlin
• Faithfull – Going Nowhere (essays: Robert Macfarlane, Alain de Botton, Philip Hoare, Lisa Le Feuvre), ISBN 9781904270317, FVU, UK
• 2006
  Faithfull – LOST, ISBN 3-00-018660-3, Whitstable Biennale, UK + Laconic, Berlin
• Faithfull – Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay, ISBN 1-870699-92-0, Book Works, UK
• 2003
  Faithfull – Dreamland (essay: Donna de Salvo), Turner Contemporary, UK

Education

• 1994 – 1996
  Reading University, UK – Master of Fine Art
• 1985 – 1989
  Central St Martins School of Art, London, UK – BA First Class