Curriculum Vitae

 

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Solo exhibitions & projects 

2009

My Native Vale  Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

As long as it lasts  Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds

Hey for Lubberland!  Ikon Gallery (offsite) Birmingham

As long as it lasts  Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge

As long as it lasts  Eastside Projects, Birmingham

2008

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

2007 

The Ballad of Gunpowder Joe  MOT International, London

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

2006

Modes of Civic Life  Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

Various Positions  Het Wide Weten, Rotterdam

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

2005

What are the senses?  Dudley Zoological Gardens, Dudley

2004

Nothing can equal so peaceful a charm  Space Banana, Birmingham

Group exhibitions & projects

2010

The decade 2010-2020'. The museum as hostage to fortune. An Endless Supply #12,  The Pigeon Wing, London,  17 April - 15 May (Curated by An Endless Supply)

Euphorbia Serrata  Sils, Rotterdam

A Stranger's Window  Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham (Curated by Moot)

2009

The Lobby  Cell Project Space, London

Extra Extra China Art Objects, Los Angeles

Neither Here, Nor There  Leicester City Gallery, Leicester

2008

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

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

Thin Cities  Platform for Art, Piccadilly Line, London Underground, London

Rotterdam [Inter]nationaal  Artstore Kunstambassade, Rotterdam

Eastside Arts Picnic  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 

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

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

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

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

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)

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

We Love Artists: Artists Residencies Around the World Someone's Garden/BNN, Tokyo, 2009

Art & Text  Black Dog Publishing, London 2009

Grizedale Arts - Adding Complexity to Confusion  Grizedale Books, Ambleside, Cumbria 2009

Simon & Tom Bloor: As long as it lasts  Eastside Projects, Birmingham 2009

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