CV
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
- 2023 8 B.P.M. (experiments with time) - Simon Faithfull, Galerie Polaris, Paris
- 2021 Fata Morgana - Simon Faithfull, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Miami, USA
- 2020 Memories From The Future, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
- 2019 Fathom, The Exchange, Penzance, UK
- Koexistenz - Simon Faithfull & Sybille Neumeyer, Naturkunde Museum, Berlin
- Elsewhen, Hestercombe House, Sommerset, UK
- 2017 Does The World Exist, When I'm Not There?, Galerie Polaris, Paris
- 2016 Zero , Sprinhornhof Kunstverein, Germany
- 2015 RECIF 2 : Traversée , Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France
- 0º00 Navigation, The Edge, University of Bath, UK
- 2014 RECIF 1: Antipode, FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
- REEF, Fabrica, Brighton, UK
- 2012 An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity, ArtConnexion, Lille
- An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity, Phoenix Art Centre, Leicester, England
- 2011 Going Nowhere, New York, Parker's Box, USA
- An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity, National Museum (Project Space), Berlin
- 2010 Voyages Extraordinaires (Simon Faithfull/Christoph Keller), CRAC Alsace, France
- Recent Findings - Simon Faithfull, Harris Museum, Preston, UK
- 2009 Gravity Sucks, British Film Institute Gallery, London
- Schwerlos (Simon Faithfull & Carla Guagliardi), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 Simon Faithfull - Selected Video Works, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
- 2006 Ice Blink, Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Ice Blink, Cell, London
- Ice Blink, Parker's Box, New York
- 2005 Antarctica Dispatches, CCA Glasgow
- 2004 Hard Drive, ICA (Digital Studio), London
- Vanishing Point, Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea, London
- 30Km - Film and Video Umbrella Commission, Aspex
- 2003 Dreamland - Droit House, Turner Contemporary, Margate
- 2002 Simon Faithfull & Bruno Peinado, New York, Parker's Box, USA
- Psychotopography, Artsway, UK
- 1998 Hertford Union, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Projects and Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2023 Horizon and Limit, CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain
- Faut-il voyager pour être heureux?, Clermont Ferrand, France
- Vague, Lycée Condorcet in Belfort (France)
- Watermark - project by Meadow Arts, Worcester, UK
- Lichtspiele, Axel Obiger Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
- 2022 Faut-il voyager pour être heureux?, EDF Foundation, Paris
- Orbital no.2: Berlin, BERLIN-WEEKLY, Germany
- Le Monde Est Tout Ce Qui Est - OVNi Festival (Objectif Vidéo Nice), Nice, France
- Tipping the Drop, Kunstraum m3’ , Berlin
- Hay-Okee: Land of 'Grassy Waters, ArtServe Ft. Lauderdale, USA
- The Sea Around Us - (organised by Artconnexion), Lille, France
- Tideline, Messums Wiltshire, UK
- 2021 Rooms to Breathe, 'The 5th floor' , Tokyo, Japan
- The Fine Hands Show, Museum Ploschad Mira, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
- Estuary Festival - curated by Metal Southend and Cement Fields, Margate + Southend, UK
- Where To Stand In The Wind, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, UK
- Bon Voyage, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
- SEA PIECES - Facts and Fictions, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
- 2020 Un Été Indien, - Frac Normandie Caen, France
- SEA PIECES - Facts and Fictions, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Germany
- Equilibrium Delay, KOGO Gallery, Estonia
- Navigating Berlin II - Design & Cognition, CLB Gallery, Berlin
- 2019 The Final Frontier, The Artists Residence, Herzliya, Israel
- Taking The Leap - (from the collection of University of Salford), PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Under Water, Filatoio di Caraglio, Cuneo, Italy
- Europe After The Rain - Curator, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, UK
- The Night Face Up, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland
- Ways of Seeing - Government Art Collection, Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019, Walthemstow, London
- Lignes de Vies – Une Exposition de Légendes, Mac Val, Paris
- Water Rising, Groundwork Gallery, Kings Lynn, UK
- 2018 Through The Looking Glass, Cob Gallery, London
- Réouverture du Musée, Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, Besançon, France
- DEADPAN (Buster Keaton, Simon Faithfull, Tim Knowles) - Galerie Andreas Schmidt, Berlin
- La No Comunidad, CentroCentro, Madrid
- Macro Asilo, Macro (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma), Rome
- In Pursuit of Elusive Horizons, Parafin, London
- Il Sole é Cioce, Galerie Polaris, Paris
- L'Envol, ou le Rêve de Voler, Maison Rouge, Paris
- At Altitude, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
- Né(e)s de L’écume et des Rêves, MuMa, Le Havre, France
- Scaling The Sublime, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
- 4th Mardin Biennial, Turkey
- One Orbit of the Sun, Haus Am Waldsee/Bikini Berlin (temporary project space)
- Oceans, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, France
- Expedition Nature, Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
- The Crisis of the Horizon, Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway
- 2017 Connectivites, Mucem, Marseille, France
- Expedition Nature, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
- Private Choices - Collection Nicole et Olivier G., Bruxelles, Belgium
- An Eyeful of Wry - Government Art Collection, Brynmor Jones Library Gallery, University of Hull
- The Documentary Model, The National Museum (Project Space), Berlin
- Cyclic Journey, The Geothe Institute, Barcelona
- L’Art Chemin Faisant, Atelier Estienne, France
- IM_MOBILITIES, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
- Caminar, Pensar ...Derivar, CDAN, Huesca, Spain
- Counterpoints - Kunst im Park 2017, Schloss Grafenegg, Austria
- Zwischen Räumen , ZK"R, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
- Wanderlust, The International 3, Manchester
- Somewhere Becoming Sea, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK
- La Vie Aquatique, MRAC, Sérignan, France
- Video Art at Midnight #83: Simon Faithfull, Babylon Mitte, Berlin
- Le Satellite, L’Art contemporain près de chez vous - FRAC - Franche-Comté, Besançon
- 2016 Club Monster , Asia Culture Centre, Gwanju, South Korea
- Linear Momentum, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
- Videocity, Videosea - (Knut Åsdam, Marcel Dinahet, Simon Faithfull), FRAC Basse Normadie, France
- Images Festival, Vevey, Switzerland
- Sous le soleil exactement Coucher de soleil et lever de rideau, Centre d’Art Bastille (CAB), Grenoble, France
- Man Made - Raversyde Museum, Oostende, Belgium
- Innbundet / Ubundet, Norske Grafikere, Oslo
- Terrain: Land into Art, Hestercombe Gallery, UK
- 2015 L'Epais Réel - La Criée Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
- They Shall Have Stars, NN - Contemporary Art Northampton, UK
- Hors les Murs, Musée des arts et métiers + Yia Art Fair #05, Paris
- Risk, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
- Urban Lights Ruhr, Hagen, Germany
- Linear Momentum, TBC Art Inc, Melbourne, Australia
- Whatever the Weather - Ramm Museum, Exeter, UK
- In Search of the Miraculous, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
- On the Edge, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, Germany
- Walking Sculpture 1967-2015, de Cordova Museum, USA
- Der Traum vom Fliegen , Mewo-Kunsthalle, Germany
- Sebald Variations, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
- Chercher le Garçon , MACVAL, Paris, France
- 2014 Things - project via Hoodwink, Morrisons supermarket, Royal Tunbridge Well, Kent, UK
- The Vault, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, USA
- 7 Raumthesen - Curated by Susanne Neubauer, ROTWAND, Zürich, Switzerland
- Perduti nel Paesaggio, Mart, Rovereto, Italy
- 2013 The World Turned Upside Down - Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd, Meade Gallery, UK
- Nouvelles Vagues - Le Principe Galápagos, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- Re-Viewing the Landscape: A Contemporary Response, Compton Verney
- Verstand und Gefühl, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
- Ulysses, l’Autre Mer, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
- Witnessing the Wilderness, Wimbledon Space, London
- Des Mondes Possibles, FRAC Franche-Comté, France
- LA – BERLIN, &model, Leeds, UK
- Fake Moon, In Between Time Festival, Bristol, UK
- A Future Pump House: - Ideas, Thoughts and Plans, Pump House Gallery
- 2012 Yonder, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
- Tatton Park Biennial 2012, Tatton Hall, Manchester
- Climate Changing Stories, Science Museum
- Landscapes of Exploration, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth
- 2011 Tracing Mobility , Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany, Berlin
- Ficciones Urbanas, Spain, San Sebastian, Koldo Mitxelena
- Drawing in Relation, Germany, DNA galerie, Berlin
- Rohkunstbau XVIII, Schloss Marquardt, Potsdam
- Secret Satellites, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Belfast Exposed
- Broken Fall (Organic), Italy, Bologna, Galleria Enrico Astuni
- Lines Fiction - Galerie für Zeichnung, Fruehsorge
- Landings: re-viewing the world, Exeter, Spacex
- Uchronie - Galerie Klatovy + Galerie 35, Institut Français, Prague, Czech Republic
- lines, Israel, Jerusalem, Goethe-Institut
- Local Knowledge - (Lower Hutt), The Dowse Museum, New Zealand, Wellington
- Which of Them Went Before…, Birmingham, Grand Union
- 2010 Control Issues - Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), Boston, USA
- WEISS - Ice / White, Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen, Kunstverein KISS
- Collaborators 2, Room Artspace, London
- Actual Fears - Mixed Gaps & Vertigo, Switzerland, Neuchâtel, CAN
- Sameness & Difference - An Artist's Furniture Show, The Russian Club, London
- Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center
- Ten Years Hunting, New York, Parker's Box, USA
- Unwetter, Akademie die Künst, Berlin
- Spatial City: The Architecture of Idealism, Milwaukee, INOVA
- To the Elements! - Aesthetic Phenomena of Climate Change, Goethe-Institut
- 2009 Inclemencia del Tiepo, Uruguay, Montevideo, Subte
- Cargo, Auto Center
- Wunderland - Mobile Research Sation no.1, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum
- Animated, Grenoble, Centre d’Art Bastille
- Intémperie, Kiel, Stadtgalerie
- Look No Hands, Cell
- Drawing Quirks 3, Parker's Box
- Intempéries, São Paulo, OCA, Rio de Janeiro, Oi Futuro, Brazil
- Desaturated, Thailand, Bangkok, Art Centre Chulalongkorn
- Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Argentina, Ushuaia
- 2008 There is No Road - The Road is Made by Walking, Gijon, Laboral
- Horror Vacui, Austria, Vienna, Galerie Layrwuestenhagen
- Mortal Coil , New York, USA, Parker's Box
- Shy Fountain - Skulpturen im Park, Haus am Waldsee
- Fake Moon - nightly intervention at Big Chill festival, Eastnor Castle
- Art Futures, Bloomberg Space
- no. it is opposition, Toronto, Art Gallery of York University
- 2007 Freehand, Arratia Beer
- [C]artography - : Map Making as an Artform, Ireland, Cork, Crawford Gallery
- 100 VIDEOER = 100 DAGE, Denmark, Copenhagen, GL Strand
- Inter-Faces, Kazakhstan, Almaty, Soros Center for Contemporary Art
- Lost O, Ashford, St Mary’s Church
- It Starts From Here, Bexhill on Sea, De La Warr Pavillion
- 52nd Venice Bienalle - New Forest Pavilion, Venice
- Selection Box , New York, USA, Parker's Box
- Nébuleuses, France, Grenoble, Centre d’Art Bastille
- Expériences Insulaires, Credac
- Das Buch, Heidelburg, Heidelburg Kunstverein
- Animated Stories, Palma de Mallorca, CaixaForum Palma
- 2006 Animated Stories, Bilbao, Sala Rekalde
- Animated Stories, Le Fresnoy
- Beacon Art Projects, Lincolnshire
- Anstoß Berlin - Kunst Macht Welt, Germany, Berlin, Haus am Waldsee
- Whistable Bienalle - LOST, Whitstable, Whitstable Biennale
- Timeless - : Time, Landscape, New Media, Harbourfront Centre
- Videodyssey, Galerie Anne Barrault
- Videodyssey, Parker's Box, New York, USA
- Wandering Rocks, Gimpel Fils
- Animated Stories, Caixa Forum, Barcelona
- Strangers With Angelic faces, Turkey, Istanbul, Akbank Art Gallery
- The Animators, Hull, Ferens Art Gallery
- 2005 The Animators, Nottingham, Angel Row
- Zoo Projects - Zoo Art Fair, Zoo Art Fair
- To Be Continued - British Council group show, Finland, Helsinki, Taidehalli
- Dis&apparence, Freiburg, Fri-Art
- East International 05, Norwich, Norwich Gallery
- The Mind is a horse - (part II), London, England, Bloomberg Space
- Draw!, Gallerie du Jour, agnesB
- Throb , New York, USA, Parker's Box
- 2004 White Station, London, Pump House Gallery, England
- Artist’s Air Show - Arts Catalyst, Farnborough
- Remote Control, Nottingham, England, Angel Row
- No One Knows the Colours That You Bring, Ireland, Dublin, Temple Bar Gallery
- 2003 Bag Lady, London, Cell, England
- EMail Art - Centre of Attention, Centre of Attention
- The Map is Not The Territory III, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham
- Borderline, de Veemvloer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2001 A Record of Events - collaborations with Tomoko Takahashi, Hales Gallery
- Drawing Quirks, New York, USA, Parker's Box
- Temporary Accommodation, Whitechapel Gallery
- 1999 Land of Milk and Honey, Catalyst Arts
- 1998 Campaign Against Living Miserably, Royal College of Art
Permanent Public Art Comissions
- 2019 The Cambridge Erratics, Cambridge University, UK
- 2015 Viewing Device for the Planet, Nuffield Health, Cambridge, UK
- 2013 Shy Fountain, Bristol Harbour-side, UK
- 2010 Liverpool to Liverpool, Lime St Station, Liverpool
- 2006 Lea, Department of Culture, Media & Sport, London , Department for Culture Media and Sport
- 2005 175ft above Birmingham, University Hospital, Birmingham
Work in Public Collections
- 2016 Collection of FRAC Basse Normandie, France
- 2014 University of Salford Art Collection, Salford, UK
- MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
- 2011 Collection of Centre Pompidou, France
- 2009 Collection of Frac Franche-Comté, France
- 2008 Laboral, Gijon, Spain
- 2007 V22 Collection, London
- 2006 Government Art Collection, England
- 2003 Arts Council Collection, England
Selected Teaching
- Ongoing (since 2003) Slade School of Fine Art - Professor of Fine Art, UCL London
- 2019 Workshop: ‘Elsewhen’ / ‘Anderswann’, HfBK Dresden Academy
- 2016 Navigation Seminar, Bergen Academy of Art. Norway
- 2012 – 2015 Manchester Metropolitan University - External Examiner, Manchester, England
- 2011 – 2016 Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten - PHD supervisor, Den Haag
- 2010 Valand, University of Gothenburg - ‘Opponent’ for final exam, Sweden, Gothenburg
- 2004 Ruskin School Of Drawing & Fine Art - Visiting Tutor, Oxfoed
- 2003 Nottingham Trent University - Visiting lecturer, Nottingham
- 2002 University Of Birmingham - Visiting lecturer, Birmingham
- 2000 – 2003 Goldsmiths University - Fine Art/ Hist. Of Art – .2 visiting lecturer, London, England
- 2000 – 2002 Camberwell School of Art - Visiting lecturer, London, England
Residencies
- 2021 Finis Terrae - 'Centre d'art insulaire', Créac'h Lighthouse & Semaphore, Isle of Ouessant
- 2017 Artsail, Florida, USA
- Terra Foundation of American Art, Senior Fellow, Giverny, France
- 2011 Residency with P&O - Calais<>Dover (through ArtConnexion)
- 2010 SubArt - (Tracing Mobility), Croatia, Razanj
- 2008 Schloss Bröllin - (Tracing Mobility), Brandenburg
- 2005 British Council/HIAP - residency in Helsinki + Lapland, Helsinki, Finland
- 2004 British Antarctic Survey - Arts Council International Fellowship, British Antarctic Territories
- 2000 Triangle Arts Association - World Trade Centre, New York
- 1997 Tulipamwe - Triange Network Worshop, Namibia, Namibia
- 1995 – 1998 Braziers International Artists Workshop - ( co-founder & coordinator)
Television Commissions
Publications
- 2014 Faithfull, Simon. Things - ISBN 9783000455131, Hoodwink and Laconic
- 2012 Faithfull, Simon, King’s Cross: A Pictorial Guide (Unreliable) - ISBN 978-1-907208-27-0, Camden Arts Centre
- An Expanding Atlas of Subjectivity - ISBN 978-3-00-037622-1, Art Connexion
- 2010 Faithfull, Simon, Liverpool to Liverpool - (essay by Joe Moran) ISBN 9781846314889, Liverpool University Press
- 2009 Faithfull, Simon Accident Book - ISBN 978-3-00-027675-0, UCLH Arts & Laconic, Berlin
- Faithfull, Going Nowhere - (essays: Robert Macfarlane, Alain de Botton, Philip Hoare, Lisa Le Feuvre) ISBN978-1904270317, Film & Video Umbrella
- 2006 Faithfull, Simon, LOST - ISBN 3-00-018660-3, Whitstable Biennale & Laconic, Berlin
- Faithfull, Simon, Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay, - ISBN 1-870699-92-0, Book Works
- 2003 Faithfull, Simon, Dreamland,, Turner Contemporary (essay by Donna de Salvo)
- 2002 Faithfull, Simon, Screen Works, Artsway, Hampshire, UK
Education
- 1994 – 1996 Reading University - Master of Fine Art
- 1985 – 1989 Central St Martins School of Art - BA First Class, London