| 1964 | Born in Kent, England |
| 1986-90 |
St Martin’s School of Art, London, England |
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Lives and works in London, England |
Solo Exhibitions
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Group Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room/Tannery Arts, London, England |
| 2022 |
REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2021 |
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room and Cromwell Place, London, England |
| 2020 |
Summer Exhibition 2020, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England |
| 2019 |
On Paper, Gallery Oldham, Oldham, England (touring) |
| 2018 |
On Paper, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales Frieze Sculpture 2018, Regent's Park, London, England Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line, Crossrail presentation, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England |
| 2017 | Drawing Room Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, England |
| 2016 | The Peculiar People, Focal Point Gallery, Essex, England Uncommon Chemistry, Observer Building, Hastings, England |
| 2015 |
Cue, Play, Pause, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London, England Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950-2015, Chatsworth, Bakewell, England |
| 2014 | Regenerate Art, Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich, Germany 5 Pancras Square, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London, England Return Journey, Mostyn, Lladudno, England |
| 2012 | Red, White and Blue, CHELSEA space, London, England Dikeou Collection / Artpace exhibition swap, Artspace, San Antonio TX, USA |
| 2011 | The Hepworth Wakefield: A Celebration Backbone: Modern British Sculptors, NewArtCentre, Roche Court, Salisbury, England Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Museum of Art, RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, England |
| 2010 | Undone: Making and Unmaking in Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England The Term (Reality), Paul Stolper Gallery, London, England The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, England E&K Arts Launch Collection (“the Exhibition”), Sotheby’s, London, England The House of Fairy Tales, Millennium, St. Ives, Cornwall, England |
| 2009 | Love Me or Fuck Me but don’t do both, Flowers, London, England Horn of Plenty, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London, England Scherenschnitte – Kontur pur, Museum Bellerive, Zürich, Switzerland The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives, St Ives, England Directions, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection of Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2008 | Three By Three (3), Sunbury House, London, England London Calling, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium Mixed Emotions: Apuntes para una colección del siglo XXI, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain |
| 2007 | Effigies, Modern Art, London, England Wunschwelten, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2006 | Sarah & Simon, Platform 3, London, England Paper, Platform 3, London, England Webs, Loops, and Skeins in Modern and Contemporary Art, RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, USA Multiplication, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient & Modern, London, England 2006 Blind Date: Recent Acquisitions of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Blind Date Seligenstadt, Galerie Kunstforum Altes Haus, Seligenstadt & prelacy of the Benedictine monastery (touring) |
| 2005 | England Their England, Laden Fuer Nichts, Liepzig, Germany Private View, 1980-2000 Collection Pierre Huber, Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany |
| 2004 | Angelo Filomeno, Simon Periton, Philip Taaffe, Francesco Vezzoli, Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York NY, USA Paper, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London Strategies of Desire, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England Four-ply, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York NY, USA Francesco Vezzoli, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York NY, USA |
| 2003 | Twilight, Gimpel Fils, London, England Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York NY, USA Sadie Coles HQ @ The Breeder Projects, The Breeder, Athens, Greece Independence, South London Gallery, London, England Guided By Heroes, a project by Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, curated by Raf Simons micro/macro British Art 1996-2002, Mucsar nok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary, curated by the British Council Post Flat, Lock, Philadelphia PA, USA Cut Out, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany My head is on fire but my heart is full of love, British Council Window Gallery, Prague 17 reasons, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England |
| 2002 | In Portraiture Irrelevance is Ugliness, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart and Museum Schloß Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany Summer Exhibition, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York NY, USA mixer02, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago IL, USA My head is on fire but my heart is full of love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark Cut, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2001 |
Carts and rafts!, Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England Tailsliding, British Council; Bergen Centre for Contemporary Art, Bergen, Norway; Vilnius Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallin, Estonia; Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland; Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic (touring) Lebensmuster - patterns of life, Museum Schloß Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany |
| 2000 | INNER CITY PRESSURE, Galerie No-D (Roxy), Prague, Czech Republic, curated by Radek Vana Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London, England Konfrontace, Czech Centre, London, England |
| 1999 | Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England Papermake, Modern Art Inc, Glasgow, Scotland Limit Less, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, curated by Matthew Higgs A Radiant Future, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland European Factory, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy Gallery Swap, Sadie Coles HQ at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany The Order of Things, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England Show It Off, Art.TM Gallery, Inverness, Scotland, England Philip Treacy- Autumn/Winter 1999 Collection (collaboration on hat design), New York and London Fashion Week New Old Town, Casey Kaplan, New York NY, USA, curated by Liam Gillick |
| 1998 | Multiple Store, ICA Institute of Contmporary Arts, London, England Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th Century Vision, Firstsite, Colchester, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA (touring exhibition) Surfacing: Drawings by 20 Contemporary Artists, ICA Insitute of Contemporary Art, London, England View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple Kettle Blue, Galerie Beaux Arts, Luxembourg Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th Century Vision, Firstsite, Colchester, England Inbreeder, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1997 | Let’s Rock, Alexandra Mansions, Norwich, England Victoria, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, England Fish and Chips, Diverse Works, Houston TX, USA Landy, Periton, Simpson, Habitat, Manchester, England Supastore, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England 619 KBB 75, Mobile 2000, Laurence Hazout, Paris, France Love Craft, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland Imprint 93, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England Space Oddities, Canary Wharf Window Gallery, London, England B.o.n.g.o., Bricks and Kicks, Vienna, Austria Snowflakes Falling on the International Dateline, Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands Popocultural 2, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England Zone Photographic Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| 1996 | Popocultural, South London Gallery, London, England Supastore De Luxe, @ Up & Co, New York NY, USA Co-operators, (Hope), Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England Kiss This, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, England 21 Days of Darkness, Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1995 | Imprint 93, City Racing, London, England |
| 1994 | WM Karaoke, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany Constable, can’t you see my predicament? Clacton-on-Sea, England |
| 1993 | Purpose-built New UK, (Hope), Realartways, Hartford CO, USA Van de Siecle, London, England |
| 1992 | Modern Art, Seven Sisters, London, England |
| 1990 | A Summerplace, Salama Caro, London, England curated by Stuart Morgan |
Commissions and Collaborations
| 2022 | Avalanche and Spectre, Crossrail Art Programme, Farringdon Station, London, England |
| 2021 | Anguilla anguilla, Simon Periton and Brandlehow Primary School, Osiers Road, Wandsworth, London, England |
| 2016 | North Wharf Gardens, London, England |
| 2015 |
The Alchemical Tree, ROQ Oxford, Site-Wide Project, Oxford, England (Ongoing) Resistance is Fertile, Parterre, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, England |
| 2014 | Bodypopper, Commission for Camden Council, 5 Pancras Square, London, England |
| 2013 | Shed, Brentford Lock, Grand Union Canal, Brentford, England |
| 2012 | Bombyx Mori, Firstsite, Colchester, England Garden of Reason, Ham House, Richmond, England |
| 2010 | Outdoor commission for Great Britain Trust, Bristol, England Claudia Schiffer art project, Vogue Deutsch The Beelzebag, commissioned by Elvis & Kresse Arts, Kent, England |
| 2007 | Collaboration with Giles Deacon for Another Magazine, March issue The Anti Room of the Mae Queen, commission for new entrance to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England |
| 2006 | French Letter, commissioned by Vamp for UBS launch in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London Future Punk, Selfridges, London |
| 2005 | Charm Bracelet, commission for the Home Office by the Government Art Collection on behalf of Bouygues UK Limited, London, England Haberdasher, commission for the British Home Office building of the Deputy High Commission, Chennai, India |
| 2004 | Banner, temporary commission for opening of BBC Media Centre, Wood Lane, London, England Strange Attractor, commission for London Headquarters of Channel 4 Television, London, England Collaboration on fashion shoot for British Vogue, Feb. issue |
| 2003 | Junya Watanabe/Comme des Garçons, collaboration on prints for fabrics, Collection Autumn/Winter Paris 2003-04 Vol-au-Vent, permanent sculptural commission, British Airways Headquarters, Heathrow Airport, London, England |
| 2002 | Pulp – Greatest Hits, CD album cover commission Atlantic Bar and Grill, anarchy membership card commission Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus Quinquefolia) collaboration with Raf Simons, Autumn/Winter Paris 2002-03, 26 Jan. 2002 British Council, Brussels, window design for new building Free Radicals, façade light projection, commission for 150th Anniversary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Hole, window design for the British Council building in Brussels, Belgium |
| 2000 | Anarchy Veil commission for Isabella Blow |
| 1999 | Philip Treacy- Autumn/Winter 1999 Collection, collaboration on hat design, New York and London Fashion Week |
Talks
| 2018 | Soup Talk-Tim Davies in conversation with Simon Periton, GS Artists, London, 02 December |
Public collections
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Arts Council Collection, London, Enlgand |