Simon Bedwell

Born in Croydon in 1963
Lives and works in London

From 1991-2002 worked almost exclusively under the name BANK, a studio-based collaborative practice. Since 2003 he has been working as a solo artist.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Painter of the Hole, MOT International, London
Asphalt World, Studio Voltaire, London

2007
The Receivers, MOT International, London
The Furnishers, White Room, White Columns, New York

2006
The Researchers, Byam Shaw School of Art gallery, London

2005
The Adverts, Rental, Los Angeles
Gents: A Melodrama with 2 Acts, Platform, London
Simon Bedwell, Ritter/Zamet, London

2004
Advertising Doesn’t Tell Anyone Anything Anyway. Piccadilly Circus Underground station concourse, Platform for Art, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Black Mirror: Art as a Social Satire, Saatchi Gallery, London

2016
In a Dream I Saw a Way to Survive and I Was Full of Joy, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

2014
First and Last Men Ha Gamle, Stavanger, Norway
Paradigm Store Howick Place, London

2013
The Banquet Years:Relics and Archives, Mgk Elaine, Basel
The Banquet Years Motinternational, London

2012
The Weight of Living Motinternational, London
Writer in Residence Ormeston House, Limerick, Eire
To Start with, Let's Remove the Colour, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Eire
Bank Self Portrait: Relics and Archives Treize, Paris

2011
The Hole the Hole, London
Cabaret Ramin Barquet, New York
We Are Grammar Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

2010
La Belle Dame Sans Merci Vagas Gallery. London
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter Roth, New York
Gallery, Galerie, Galleria Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin
Tublic Service Announcement Invisible Exports, New York
East End Promise: Shoreditch 1985-2000, London
La Belle Dame sans Merci Vegas, London
Rude Brittannia: British Comic Art Tate Britain, London
Grand National: Art from Britain Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway

2008
Other People’s Projects, White Columns, New York

2007
Last Of The Urgents, Colony Gallery, Birmingham
Second Life, Portman Gallery, London
Oliver Twist, Rental, New York

2006
Bring The War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Bring The War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles
I Am The Fly Franc-Paca, Marseilles
Pimps and Hookers 1000000mph, London
Simon/Sarah, Platform, London
Right on/Write Off, Chapman Fine Arts, London

2005
Paintings without Painters, Painters without Paintings, Orchard, New York
England Their England, Laden Fur Nicht, Leipzig
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
Brit Povera, Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Shouting At the Television (interview with Mustafa Halusi) online project

2004
Galleon and other Stories, Saatchi Gallery, London
Bech Futures 5, ICA, London and CCA, Glasgow
Grate Britain, Cell, London
Slimvolume 5, Redux, London
The Sound Of The Crowd, Ritter/Zamet, London
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London

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