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Born 1972, London, England
Lives and works in Berlin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Simon Evans, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2012
How to Be Alone When You Live With Someone, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
2011
Shitty Heaven, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Simon Evans, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
2009
Island Time, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (November)
2005
How to get about, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
The Bulletin Board, White Columns, New York, NY
In the Country of Uncles, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SECA Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2003
Your Shits Stuff, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
The Third Eye (Unseen Seen), Fountain House, New York, NY
First We Make the Rules, Then We Break the Rules, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yes Naturally, how art saves the world, GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), The Hague
Day After Day, University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY February 5 - April 6 2013
2012
First We Make the Rules, Then We Break the Rules, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Art of the Joke, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Funny, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Now Here is also Nowhere, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Textual Attraction, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Cut with the kitchen knife, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, touring to the Art Space Wodonga, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Central Goldfields Gallery, East Gippsland Gallery
A Perfect Day, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Artists Tell Stories (mostly about themselves), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
New Acquisitions 2009-2011 , Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
People Don’t Like To Read Art, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Free Poems, Podium, Oslo, Norway
The 12th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (September 17- November 13, 2011)
cartoGRAPHIC, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY (February 17 – March 19, 2011)
2010
Ground Level: Hayward Touring Curatorial Open 2010-11, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and touring to Quad Derby; Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno; Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, United Kingdom
2009
The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
31º Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2008
DARKSIDE: Part 1: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2007
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London
Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
May the Twelfth, Store Gallery, London
All About Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006
27th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artist's Books, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Terra Incognita, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Victoria, Australia
2005
We Disagree, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2004
2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Continuities: Themes from the Fine Art Collection Reflected in Recent Northern California Art, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA
Topographies, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003
Dropout!, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013
Finley, Jean, ed. Day after Day: The Diaristic Impulse. Albany: University Art Museum, 2013.
2012
Evers, Elodie, and Holzhey, Magdalena, eds, Simon Evans & Öyvind Fahlström: First We Make the Rules, Then We Break the Rules, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012, exhibition catalogue.
Wolff, Rachel. “Capturing New York in Scraps of Paper.” The Wall Street Journal 25 May 2012.
2011
Hellberg, Fatima, “Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial)” KALEIDOSCOPE blog!, October 12, 2011.
Horan, Tom “Istanbul biennial: art at the crossroads of the world,” The Telegraph, September 30, 2011.
Gibbons, Fiachra, “10 of the Best Exhibitions at the Istanbul Biennial,” The Guardian, September 21, 2011.
Donoghue, Katy, “Simon Evans: Shitty Heaven”, Whitewall, 27, June, 2011.
2010
“Shortcuts,” Sleek Magazine for Art and Fashion, Spring 2010
Jack Hanley, "Everyone You End Up with Stinks," HighStreet February 1, 2010
2009
Goleman, Daniel, “How green is green?” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Summer 2009
Kold, Anders, “Simon Evans,” The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2009
“Light Centre - LIFE GARAGE SALE,” ARTe MEDIA, October 30, 2009
Harmon, Katharine, “Inner Visions Map of Invented Places,” The Map as Art, 2009
RNK/TRIFECA.ORG, “Simon Evans,” Lodown Magazine, No.66, May/June 2009
Lachut, Scott, “Simon Evans, Living on “Island Time,”” FreeWilliamsburg.com, March 26, 2009
“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, March 16, 2009
“Simon Evans: Island Time,” Flavorpill, February 19, 2009
“Meeting of Minds: Simon Evans puts five questions to Sean Landers,” Art + Auction, February 2009
2008
Ryan, Jeffrey, “Simon Evans,” Frieze, March 2008
“Dear Diary,” Art on Paper, July/August 2008
2006
"THE KEY PORTFOLIO; Roman à Clef,” The New York Times, September 10, 2006
Helfand, Glen, "Simon Evans at Jack Hanley Gallery", Art on Paper, January - February
2005
Dexter, Emma, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon Press
Kurtz, Katie, "Critic's Choice: Art", San Francisco Bay Guardian , October 26
Berger, Jamie, "14 Reasons to Look at Simon Evans", Planet Magazine , Fall Issue
Helfand, Glen, "New Drawings in San Francisco", Art on Paper , May/June
Cotter, Holland, "Review: We Disagree", The New York Times , February 4
Spears, Lori, "New Sensation", San Francisco Bay Guardian , February 2
Helfand, Glen, "Wheelin' and dealin'", San Francisco Bay Guardian , February 2
2004
Higgs, Matthew, "First Take: 12 New Artists", Artforum , January
2003
Ventriglia, Ilaria, "Review", Flash Art , October
Swanhuyser, Hiya and Joyce Slaton, "Review", SF Weekly , September 3 - 9
Bing, Allison, "7 Reasons Why Simon Evans is Your New Best Friend",www.sfgate.com,
August 27 - September 3
Westbrook, Lindsay, "Critic's Choice: Art", San Francisco Bay Guardian , August 27
Sullivan, James, "15 Under 30", San Francisco Chronicle Magazine , July 20