Education
2005-2006
Guest Student Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
2002-2005
BA Fine Art: Goldsmiths College
2001-2002
Foundation in Art, Cambridge Regional College
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Door de bomen het bos, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
2023
Song of Songs, Seventeen, London U.K
Full of Days, Gallery of Everything, London UK
2020
Structure of Feeling (Ghost Train), Block 336, London
2019
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Cinema Museum, London
Natural Selection, Shetland Arts, Shetland
Natural Selection, Bristol Museum
Natural Slection, Hospitalfields/Arbroath Law Courts, Scotland
2018
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Natural Selection, CAST, Cornwall
Natural Selection, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Natural Selection, Leeds Art Gallery
2017
As Speed Increase Objects can Ben in Several Places At Once, Lancaster Arts
2016
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Wasps, Glasgow International
2015
Towards a Unifie Theory of M!MS, Kunsthall Winterthur
It’s Only Bondage was the Circling Sky, SVA/Site Festival, Stroud
2014
Towards a Unified Theory of M!MS, Spike Island, Bristol
2013
Towards a Unified Theory of M!MS, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Folly and Landscape, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2012
The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time, Cubitt
Stalagmite Rock Club, Art Rotterdam, solo presentation
Cookham Erratics, Works|Projects, Bristol
2011
Chewy Cosmos Thingly Time, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge
Cookham Erratic, Benaki Museum, Athens
2010
Art Now:Andy Holden, TATE Britain
Permanent Vacation, Bureau Manchester
2009
Desert Project, Works/Projects, Bristol
A Series of Small Encounters, Hidde van Seggelen*
Two Short Works In Time, Performance, Odeon Cinema, Covent Garden
2008
The World is Round and Mr Wrigley Makes Chewing Gum, Kunstfort, NL
You Go On Without Me, Hex Projects, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Auguries, Permanent public sculpture commission, Wakefield U.K
Behold, Hypha Studio’s, London UK
Amber Rooms, Matt’s Gallery, London U.K
2022
British Art Show 9, Whitworth, Manchester UK
British Art Show 9, Box, Plymouth UK
Raw Nerves, Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham, UK
Ghost Show, Copeland Park, London
Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro, London
Empathy for People, Empathy for Things, University of Hatfield Gallery, UK
For the Birds, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, USA
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
2021
Unnatural History, Herbert Coventry
Arcadia, Bold Tendencies, London
Collected Domestic Conceptualism, Pitt Studio, Worcester
British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
Beano: Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House (Curator)
To the Edge of Time, The Leuven University Library, Belgium
House Share, First Site, Colchester
2020
Unexpected Views, lecture at National Gallery, London
What am I? Simon Munnery Retrospective, SVA, (Curator)
2019
Fragile Earth, MIMA
Invisible, Science Gallery, Dublin
What Am I? – An Exhibition by Simon Munnery (Curator),
Hippo Campus, Newlyn Art Exchange
Dark Matter, Science Gallery. London
Cartoony, New Media Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2018
Good Grief Charlie Brown, Somerset House, London
Natural Selection/Laws of Motion, Front International, Cleveland, USA
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (live), Alserkal Avenue Project Space, Dubai
Animals and Us, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (live), Groundwork, Cornwall
Rinnzekete bee bee nnz err müü, Kunstverein Weisbarden (Group show)
Opposite of Time, Henry Moore Studio, Mutch Hadam (performance)
Silly Symphony, Ex-Baldessarre Bedford (Curator)
Estate of Hermione, Ex-Baldessarre, Bedford (Curator)
2017
Natural Selection, Artangel at Former Newington Library, London
Laws of Motion, Kunsthalle Viborg, Denmark (off site in Laws Court)
World as Cartoon, Tate Britain, Performance
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine
Future Generation Art Prize at Venice Biennale
50 Years of Milton Keynes, M!MS Dream Sequence, Milton Keynes Gallery
2016
The Practice of Theories, Wysing Arts Centre, group exhibition
Secret Surface, K-W Berlin, group exhibition
Playing by the Rules, Royal Standard, Liverpool, group show
Pitt Projects: Music vs Ceramics, at Pulse New York, new works editions and films
TEFAF Maastricht, NL, Installation with Hidde van Seggelen,
2015
20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection
Lecture on Nesting, Bristol Museum with Spike Island
2014
The Politics of Friendship Tour, tour of nine artist-run spaces around the UK with the Grubby Mitts
inc: Primary, S1 Artspace, Rhubaba, Supercollider, Karst, Aid and Abet, Grand Union, Open School East
Hey I’m Mr Poetic, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Cacotopia / Peach Blossom Spring, Kui Yuan Gallery, China (touring)
Hello, Welcome, performance for Art Licks Weekend
On the Devolution of Culture, Rob Tufnell, London
The Proper Situation is Sublime, commission for Cambridge Hospital
2013
Seven Short Works in Time, Hospitalfield Arts, Angus
Lecture on Nesting, Performa 13, New York, USA
As real as walking down the street and going to the grocery store, Rowing, London
Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Hayward Touring curated by Mark Leckey
Liverpool Bluecoat, Nottingham Contemporary, De la Ware Pavilion
Version Control, Arnolfini, Bristol
Random Acts, film for Channel 4, commissioned by TATE Media
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Arnolfini, Bristol (stage production)
2012
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston
Soundworks, ICA London
Becoming Thing, Whitechapel, performance with Ed Adkins
Nothing Like Something Happens Anywhere, Chapter, Cardiff
Lecture on Nesting, Penzance Convention, performance with Peter Holden.
Lecture on Bird Song, House of Beasts, Attingham Park, performance.
Latitude Contemporary Art, Latitude Festival, Suffolk
Discussing Metamodernism, Gallery Tanja Wagner, Berlin
A Plea for Tenderness, Seventeen Gallery, Curated by David R Conroy
Grubby Mitts, Performance at First Site, Colchester
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, Hay-on-Wye festival, performance
Brief Interview’s with Hideous Men, ICA, two night production in collaboration with David Raymond Conroy
Grubby Mitts single launch, Old Queen’s Head, Islington
Human Made Things, Aspex, Portsmouth
Occupants, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston
2011
Transcendental Empiricism, Rob Tufnell, London
Art Now Live, Tate Britain (Lecture on Birdsong)
BruderKreigSoundSystem, ICA, London, cuarted by Mark Leckey
I Promise To Love You, Kunsthalle Rotterdam
A Fire in the Master’s House is Set, Chapter, Cardiff.
Life of the Mind (Grubby Mitts performance), New Art Gallery, Walsall,(Curated by Bob and Roberta Smith)
Off the Record, Resonance 104.4Fm, curated by Royal College curating MA
2010
Be Glad for the Song Has No End ~ a Festival of Artists Music (curator)
Props, Events and Encounters, Hub, Athens
Six Short Works in Time, Victoria University Gallery, Liverpool
Daily, Action, Poetry, (with Grubby Mitts), Hayward Gallery
Lecture on Nesting, London Festival of Architecture
The Eccentric, The Idiosyncratic and the Unpredictable, Schirman & de Beaucé, Paris
Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia
Three Short Works in Time, TATE Britain (performance with Grubby Mitts)
2009
Lecture on Migration, performance, Transition Gallery, London
Performed, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Abstract, Almost Abstract 2 , Gallerie van Gelder, NL
2008
Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Poldergeist, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL
2006
The Thing in Itself, Peles Empire, curated by Mark Leckey
Publications
Collected Free Labour, Slimvolume, 2021
Natural Selection, Artangel, 2017, with essays by Helen MacDonald and Darian Leader
M!MS, Zabludowicz Publishing, 2013
Chewy Cosmos Thingy Time, Kettles Yard Catalogue
The World is Round and Mr Wriggly Makes Chewing Gum, Catalogue, NL
The Art of Not Making, Thames and Hudson, 2011
Spacecraft, Hideouts, & Fleeting Architectures II, Gestalten, 2009
Spacecraft, Hideouts, & Fleeting Architectures, Gestalten, 2007
The Object, Documents in Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery,
Disgography
Lenny 12″ Vinyl, ed 100, Holden
After the Fact, CD, ed 300, The Grubby Mitts
To a Friend’s House 7″, ed 500, The Grubby Mitts
Standard 7″, ed 300, The Grubby Mitts
What the World Needs Now Is, CD, ed 1000, The Grubby Mitts
Music of Exhaustion, unique 7″, ed 300, The Grubby Mitts
Towards a Unified Theory of M!MS, 12″, edition 250, Holden
Awards
Paul Hamlyn Award, 2012
Stanley Picker Fellowship, Kingston University, 2011-12
Boise Travel Award, Slade/UCL, 2008
