b.UK 1984. Lives and works in Glasgow, UK.
Simon is the co-director of the Action Research Group DURTY BEANZ (DB). For information on DB projects, please visit their website.
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo & Two-person Exhibitions/Projects
2022 – The Master & Puzzler. Oreilles Internaxionales, Basel, CH
2020 – When the Language Leaves Me. The Tip, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2019 – BALK. With Lars Karl Becker. Govan Project Space. Glasgow, UK
2018 – Foundation Painting Show. With Othmar Farre. Glasgow International. Glasgow, UK
2017 – Cooperation Show (Best of BADWORLDS). With Hardeep Pandhal. Two Queens, Leicester, UK
2017 – I Learned to Say no and Walk Towards the Sun. AC Repair Co. Toronto, CA
2016 – Rot House. Tentacles Gallery, Bangkok, TH
2016 – As You Were, As We Are. Spreez Gallery, Munich, DE
2015 – Nothing Really Matters (Except Me). Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IC
2015 – EVIL EMPIRE. The Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2014 – The Bacon, The Cheese & The Lies. Schauspiel Commission, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Selected Groups Exhibitions
2024 – Atopia I. Dacodac. Zurich, CH
2019 – Next Top Model. Govan Project Space, Glasgow, UK
2018 – Silver Spoon. Bangkok Biennial with TheTip. Bangkok, TH
2017 – All You Need. Riverside Gallery. Bern, CH
2017 – Village of Hope Trees. Part 1. Koln, DE
2016 – Grand Opening (intervention at Othmar Farre & Raphael Linsi opening) Part 1. Koln, De
2016 – Í DRÖGUM / PREHISTORIC LOOM IV. Akueryri Art Museum. IC
2015 – Mediating Landscape. Flip. Napoli, IT
2013 – MFA Degree Show. Glue Factory. Glasgow, UK
Selected Performances
2022 – WORMS. Oreilles Internaxionales, Basel, CH
2018 – Tales from Autoscopy. Institut Kunst, Basel, CH
2018 – This is The Place. Natalie Portman Collective. Basel, CH
2018 – Nowhere. Take Me Somewhere Performance Festival. Tron Theatre, Glasgow, UK
2015 – The Relevance of Irreverence. The Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2015 – Words Don’t Come Easy. Harbinger Gallery, Reykjavik, IC
Selected Art Writing
2023 – Schattenspiel (a micro-remix). A short text accompanying Isadora Vogt’s exhibition Forbidden Cuteness. Derosia Gallery, New York City, US
2022 – All That’s Left. Parafictional essay for Alys Owen and Durty Beanz exhibition at Newcastle University, UK
2021 – Schattenspiel. A short text for Isadora Vogt. Published with: Kiefer Hablitzel & Göhner Kunstpreis, CH / AU
2021 – Turritopsis Dohrnii (an immortal jellyfish, Sarah Kane and Franz Kafka walk into a bar). Online text series for Machoire (Camille Brêteau)
2020 – Echo’s Bones. Beagles & Ramsay. Gallery text and catalogue essay (written in character) for Circular Holding Patten, GPS, Glasgow, UK
2020 – The Singular En Masse: Meditations on the collaborative practice of Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor. Commissioned Essay.
2020 – Foundation Painting Show Book. Co-editor with Othmar Farre. Published by If I Ran the Circus/Walther-Koenig, Koln, DE
2019 – The Kink in the Arc. Short text for The Sanatorium for the Weary Image. Edited by Paul Becker, UK
2019 – Bad Swimmer. Adrian Falkner Exhibition Text (written in character) for Circle Culture Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2018 – Birds, Rats and the Dark. Beth Shapeero and Fraser Taylor exhibition text for Govan Project Space, Glasgow, UK.
2018 – Out of Office Auto Reply. Map Magazine. Short fiction written with Dr Sarah Tripp, UK
2017 – Low Tides. Co-editor & designer. Bi-annual joke book, self-published with Scott Rogers, UK
2015 – Nothing Really Matters (except me). Solo-exhibition of wall-drawn dialogues. The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IC
Education
2015 – Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste
2013 – MFA, Glasgow School of Art
2010 – PG-Dip, Analytic Philosophy, Bristol University
2007 – BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of the West of England
For further information on any previous projects, contact me on:
simonisbuckley@gmail.com