Simon Birch

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Simon Birch in the Mojave Desert aircraft boneyard, 2016
Mojave Desert, 2016. Photo: Scott Sporleder

Born 1969, Brighton, UK. Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.

Large-scale installations

  • October 2027: The 14th Factory, London (upcoming)
  • 2017: The 14th Factory, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, USA (visited by more than 100,000 people)
  • 2012: Daydreaming With… The Hong Kong Edition, ArtisTree, TaiKoo Place, Hong Kong
  • 2010: HOPE & GLORY: A Conceptual Circus, ArtisTree, TaiKoo Place, Hong Kong

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2022: IGNITE 14: Recent Paintings, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, USA, in collaboration with GuY Hector (The Art House Global), 6 August – 1 October
  • 2015: The Inevitable, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
  • 2013: Hooligan, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
  • 2012: Clear Air Turbulence, Gallery Reis, Singapore
  • 2011: HOPE & GLORY, G-DOT Art Space, Beijing, China
  • 2011: Laughing With A Mouth Full Of Blood, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong
  • 2009: Raw And Loved, AE District, Miami, USA
  • 2009: Small Wonder, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2008: Simon Birch: Out Of the Darkness, Louis Vuitton Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2008: This Brutal House, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
  • 2007: Azhanti High Lightning, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
  • 2006: The Armenian, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected group exhibitions

  • 2012: Daydreaming with…, ArtisTree, TaiKoo Place, Hong Kong
  • 2011: Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2011: Daydreaming with…, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
  • 2010: Re-Creation 2, The Ogilvy Chocolate Factory, New York, USA
  • 2008: Looking for Antonio Mak, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
  • 2006: Outside Context Problem, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Annex, Hong Kong
  • 2004: Pop!, with Banksy, Jamie Hewlett, James Cauty and the New York collective Faile, Brighton Fringe Festival, UK

Collections

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), permanent collection

Residencies and awards

  • 2012: TWS Aoyama Creator-in-Residence Research Residency Program, Tokyo
  • 2007: Louis Vuitton Asian Art Prize, winner
  • 2004: Sovereign Prize, Manfred Schoeni Award, winner

Talks and panels

  • 2017: The Art of Disruption, in dialogue with Penny Rimbaud and Nigel Daly, The 14th Factory, Los Angeles
  • 2017: The Art Experience in the Age of Social Media, panel, The 14th Factory, Los Angeles
  • 2014: TEDxWanChai, Hong Kong: Art – life made me do it (published online September 2014)
  • 2012: Studio visit, University of Hong Kong Museum Society
  • 2011: Semi-Permanent Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 11–12 March: talk, and panel with Stanley Wong, Douglas Young, Rain Li and Danielle Huthart

Education

  • 2008: Master of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Press

Artforum, The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune, Time Out, The New York Times.