Education  1997-2000 Leeds Metropolitan University (BA Hons.)

Selected exhibitions & projects

2008
Mould the Universe  The Window Box, The New Art Gallery, Walsall

Beck's Fusions  Contemporary Art Society, Castlefield Arena, Manchester

The Long Take  Moot, Nottingham

Folkestone Triennial: Tales of Time & Space  Folkestone, Kent (In collaboration with Nils Norman and Gavin Wade)

ARTfutures 2008  Bloomberg Space, London

.raw esperanto  Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam

2007 
The Ballad of Gunpowder Joe  MOT International, London (solo show)

Kiosk7:OudWestKiosk  SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (solo project with Gavin Wade, as Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor)

Among Us  Pavillion Projects/Pop Montreal 2007, Montreal

Binary Oppositions  CITRIC Gallery, Brescia

Propaganda Machine  Serpentine Gallery, London (MOT offsite project)

Kiosk6:Intellect&ComprehensionKiosk  Isola Di San Servolo, Venice (with Gavin Wade as Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor)

Wrong Time, Wrong Place  TENT, Rotterdam

KIOSK  Capital Art Projects, Birmingham

ARTfutures 2007  Bloomberg Space, London

2006-7
Thin Cities  Platform for Art, Piccadilly Line, London Underground, London

2006
Modes of Civic Life  Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (solo show)

Rotterdam [Inter]nationaal  Artstore Kunstambassade, Rotterdam

Eastside Arts Picnic  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (offsite project in collaboration with DJ Culpable)

Strategic Questions: Platform 06  Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna & De Appel, Amsterdam

Merz  Magazin 4, Bregenz (as Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor)

Various Positions  Het Wide Weten, Rotterdam (solo show)

NGA (Billboards project)  Various sites, Birmingham (organised by University of Central England)

The wide world is all about you  Ikon Gallery offsite project, Birmingham (solo project)

2005
The Artist with Two Brains  St Paul’s Church, Birmingham (MOT offsite project)

Public Structures  2nd GuangZhou Triennial, GuangZhou

Aw Jock Tamson’s Bairns  Changing Rooms, Stirling

All at once, together, at the same time  Colony Gallery, Birmingham

Art Sheffield 05: Spectator T  S1 Artspace & other venues, Sheffield

What are the senses?  Dudley Zoological Gardens, Dudley (solo show)

Fearless Vampire Killers  Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (contribution to project by Jedediah Caesar)

2004
Romantic Detachment  Grizedale Arts, PS1, New York (touring to Q Arts, Derby; Chapter, Cardiff & Folly, Lancaster)

Pilot:1  Pilot international art forum, Limehouse Town hall, London

And I and I and I and I  Locust Projects, Miami (contribution to project by Jedediah Caesar)

Strange Animal  LACE, Los Angeles (Contribution to project by Jedediah Caesar)

Nothing can equal so peaceful a charm  Space Banana, Birmingham (solo show)

2003
Roadshow  Grizedale Arts, Grizedale, Cumbria; (Touring to Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Lickey Hills, Birmingham; Real Institute, Blaenau Ffestiniog; Vilma Gold, London; Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee)

Publications

Thin Cities  Art on the Underground, London 2008

Folkestone Triennial: Tales of Time & Space  Cultureshock Media, London 2008

Platform for Art: Art on the Underground  Black Dog Publishing, London 2007

As if something once mentioned, now plain to see  Colony Publications, Birmingham 2007

Artist Links 2002-2006  British Council China & Arts Council England 2006

Merz  Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2006

Generator 1&2  Article Press, Birmingham 2006

Beck’s futures 06  ICA publications, London 2006

The second Guangzhou Triennial: Beyond: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization  Guangzhou Triennial, China 2006

What are the senses?  Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council 2005

Roadshow  Grizedale Books, Ambleside, Cumbria 2003

Grants & Residencies

Studio Residency, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, 2008

Epic Skate park residency, Birmingham, 2007

Het Wilde Weten guest artist residency, Rotterdam, 2006

Generator 1 Curatorial Research & Development Grant, UCE, Birmingham, 2006

Residency / Research & Development Grant, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, 2004-2005

International Research and Development Grant, Arts Council England, 2004