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Simon Fujiwara

(British, born 1982)

who's bigger splash? (enter the blue) by simon fujiwara

Simon Fujiwara

Who's Bigger Splash? (Enter the Blue), 2022

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Simon Fujiwara

Who’s Big Identity Deep Dive? (Soul Searcher), 2022

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Biography

Timeline

2005
Received BA in Architecture, 1st Class Degree Honors with Distinction, Cambridge University
2008
Received a degree in Fine Art, Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste,Frankfurt am Main

Exhibitions

2016
Simon Fujiwara Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
The Humanizer, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (selected exhibition)
White Day, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (selected exhibition)
Pearl Diving, TARO NASU, Tokyo (selected exhibition)
YU-UN, Tokyo (selected exhibition)
The Way, The Obayashi Collection, Tokyo (selected exhibition)
Thicker Than Water: Concepts of the Family in Contemporary Art, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen
Making and Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London
Ich, Fellbach Triennale of Small-Scale Sculpture Since 1980, Fellbach
Berlin Biennale 9, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2015
Simon Fujiwara Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Modern Marriage, Public Art sculpture for the site of the new American Embassy, London (selected exhibition)
A Spire. Public Art Sculpture for the University of Leeds Laidlaw Library, Leeds (selected exhibition)
Lactose Intolerance, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (selected exhibition)
Peoples of the Evening Land, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (selected exhibition)
Drawn by its own memory, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
British Art Show 8, (Touring Venues) Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
13th Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum Festival, St. Petersburg
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
J’adore, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen
Presque rien, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Parasophia, Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Art, Kyoto
History is Now: 7 artists take on Britain, Hayward Gallery, London
2014
Simon Fujiwara Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Simon Fujiwara: Three Easy Pieces, The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (selected exhibition)
Jamaica Biennale 2014, Jamaica
Imagineering, Okayama
The Other Sight, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
La Photographie Performe, Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault
Berlin Heist, Poznan Biennale, Poznan
Studio Pieta, Centro de Arte Dos de mayo, Madrid
Les yeux seuls sont encore capables de pousser un cri, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Un Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2013
Simon Fujiwara Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Grand Tour, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (selected exhibition)
Studio Pietà (King Kong Komplex), Andrea Rosen, New York (selected exhibition)
Aphrodisiac Foundations (Imperial Hotel 1968, King Kong Komplex), TARO NASU, Tokyo (selected exhibition)
The Problem of the Rock, Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, Japan (selected exhibition)
Simon Fujiwara, ArtSonje Center, Seoul (selected exhibition)
Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Munich
Museum Off Museum, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Mingei: Are You Here?, Pace Gallery, London
Roppongi Crossing 2013, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Souvenir, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
Unattained Landscape, Japanses Foundation/Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice
Angel of History, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
13 rooms, Kaldor Public Art Project #27, Pier 2/3, Sydney
I Know You, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (cat.)
Sharjah Biennial 11, (cat.)
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
2012
Simon Fujiwara Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Rehearsal for a Reunion (with the Father of Pottery), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (selected exhibition)
The Museum of Incest, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (selected exhibition)
Simon Fujiwara: Since 1982, Tate St. Ives, Saint Ives, Cornwall (cat.) (selected exhibition)
Roundtable, 9th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju (cat.)
Modern Monsters/Death and Life of Fiction, Taipei Biennial 2012, Taipei (cat.)
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis, San Francisco
MOT annual 2012; Making Situations, Editing Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Reactivation, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (cat.)
12 Rooms, Ruhr Triennale, Essen
7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale. Shenzhen (cat.)
Made In Germany Zwei, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (cat.)
Duplicitous Storytellers, Casa Del Lago, Mexico City
These are not obligations but I want to (a response in two parts), CCS Bard, NY
Print /Out, MOMA, New York
2011
Simon Fujiwara Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: HAU 1, Berlin Performa 11, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco (selected exhibition)
Welcome to the Hotel Munber, The Power Plant, Toronto (selected exhibition)
Phallusies, Gio Marconi, Milan (selected exhibition)
Letters From Mexico, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (selected exhibition)
The Air We Breathe, SFMOMA (cat.)
The Museum Show Part 2, Arnolfini, Bristol (cat.)
Berlin 2000-2011 Playing Among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (cat.)
Arkhaiologia, CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne (cat.)
Entanglement, INIVA, London
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter, 4. Fotofestival, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg (cat.)
Humid but Cool - I think, TARO NASU, Tokyo
Based in Berlin, Berlin
11 Rooms, Manchester International Festival
Young British Art, (curated by Ryan Gander), Limoncello, London
X, Gio Marconi, Milan
Archive und Geschichte (n), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Palace Party, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
Open House, Singapore Biennale (cat.)
Simon Fujiwara, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Public Collections

The Tate Collection, London
American Embassy, London
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Leeds Univeristy, Leeds
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum of Modern Art, New Yor
The Prada Collection, Milan
Sammlung Verbund, Austria
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah

Literature

2016
Fujiwara, Simon. “Welcome to the Hotel Munber, 2009,” Queer (Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art), The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA: 132-135.
2015
Killian, Kevin. “The Harlequin Tea Set: On Simon Fujiwara’s Rehearsal for a Reunion (with the Father of Pottery) (2011),” Writers Respond: Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York:27-29.
2013
Hoffmann, Jens. Die Identitätsbildung, Kunstforum Bd.219 Jan.-Feb.2013, front cover, p.66-68, p.74, p.120
Velasco, David. Previews ‘Simon Fujiwara: Since 1982’, Tate St. Ives, ArtForum January 2012, p.119
Wullschlager, Jackie. Portrait of the artist as anyone else. Financial Times (UK). Jan. 18th 2012 p.13
Durrant, Nancy. Threads of fiction and myth. The Times (UK). Jan. 24th 2012 p. 12
Hudson, Mark. A self-portrait of the artist in bed with his Modernist hero. The Daily Telegraph (UK).Jan. 24th 2012, p. 27
Hasegawa, Yuko. Artist Interview: Simon Fujiwara, Bijutsu Techo, Jan. 2012 vol.64, p.233-241
Shaitly, Shahesta. Rising Star: Simom Fujiwara, Observer Magazine, The Observer on Sunday 8 April 2012, p. 6
UnFlop paper 3, SS 2012, Art Cover and Vinyl (Welcome to the Hotel Munber)
English (US)

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