ARTIST NAME Simon Fujiwara
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XXVII, Oct 08 - Mar 09
DISCIPLINE Art
WEBSITE
BIO Born 1982 in London, United Kingdom
Lives in Berlin, Germany and Mexico City, Mexico

Education:
Art, Städelschule Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Architecture, 1st class degree Hons.with Distinction, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2013
- Performance at 'Homeworks', Studio Pieta, performance version, Beirut, Lebanon (Solo Exhibition)
- "Aphrodisiac Foundations (Imperial Hotel 1968, King Kong Komplex)", TARO NASU, Tokyo, Japan (Solo Exhibition)
- "The Problem of the Rock", Dazaifu Shinto Shrine, Dazaifu, Japan (Solo Exhibition)
- "Studio Pieta, (King Kong Komplex)" Opening of the Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Solo Exhibition)
- "Museum of incest," Mirror stage, Rehearsal for a reunion, ArtSonje, Seoul, Korea (Solo Exhibition)
- "Unattained Landscapes"at Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (Group Exhibition)
- "Rehearsal For a Reunion." L'Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (Group Exhibition)

2012
- "Rehearsal for a Reunion" (with the Father of Pottery), Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Solo Exhibition)
- "Museum of Incest," Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (Solo Exhibition)
- "Simon Fujiwara: Since 1982," Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom (Solo Exhibition & Publication)
- "Simon Fujiwara and Etti Abergel : "Smashing!"," Benyamini Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (Group Exhibition)
- "11 Rooms," Ruhr Triennale, Essen, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "Made In Germany Zwei," Sprengel Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany (Group Exhibition & Publication)
- "Print /Out," MOMA, New York, USA (Group Exhibition)
- The 9th Shanghai Biennale, China (Group Exhibition)

2011
- "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," HAU 1, Berlin; Performa 11, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco. (Solo Exhibition)
- "Welcome to the Hotel Munber," The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (Solo Exhibition)
- "Phallusies," Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy (Solo Exhibition)
- "Letters From Mexico," Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico (Solo Exhibition)
- "Humid but Cool - I think," TARO NASU, Tokyo, Japan (Group Exhibition)
- "Based in Berlin," Berlin, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "11 Rooms," Manchester International Festival, United Kingdom (Group Exhibition)
- "Archive and Histories," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "Palace Party," Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (Group Exhibition)
- "Open House," Singapore Biennale, Singapore, China (Group Exhibition & Publication)

2010
- "The Personal Effects of Theo Grünberg," Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, German (Solo Exhibition)
- "Welcome to the Hotel Munber," Neue Alte Brücke, Art Statements, Art Basel 41, Basel, Switzerland (Solo Exhibition)
- "Frozen," The Cartier Award, Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom (Solo Exhibition)
- "There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In", 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil (Group Exhibition & Publication)
- "The Lecture as a Work of Art," Public Art Fund, New York, USA (Group Exhibition)
- "One Could Speculate that what Happened Here Made a Difference to Somebody or Something," Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "Exhibition, Exhibition," Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (Group Exhibition & Publication)

2009
- "Frame," Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom (Solo Project)
- "The Collectors," 53rd Venice Biennale, Nordic Pavilion, Venice, Italy (Group Exhibition)
- "Liste Art Fair Curated Performance Project," Gallery Neue Alte Brucke, (Group Exhibition)
- "Friends of the Divided Mind," Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom (Group Exhibition)
- "Impersonator," MAK Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA (Group Exhibition)
- "Second Row (with Tobias Reheberger)," Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "What Is Not But Could Be If..," Caribic, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "Mock and Other Superstitions," Donlon Bookshop, London, United Kingdom (Reading)
- OTIS College of Art, Los Angeles, USA (Performance)
- "WorkSpace", Los Angeles, USA (Performance)
- "Arts Foundation Fellowship Award."(Award)
- OTIS College of Art, Los Angeles, USA (Teaching/Lecturing)

2008
- "Closet Gallery", The Architecture Foundation, London, United Kingdom Commission for pavilion. (Solo Exhibition)
- "The Incest Museum - A Guided Tour", Limoncello Gallery, London, United Kingdom (Solo Exhibition)
- "Invisible Archives", collaborative book project (Publication)
- "Residency Atelier Show", Kisa Logen Project Space, Kiasa, Sweden (Group Exhibition)
- "Site-Specific Comission", The London Festival of Architecture, curated by Eli Redstone, The Architecture Foundation, London, United Kingdom
- "Home is the Place You Left", Museum of Modern Art, Trondheim, Norway (Group Exhibition)
- "The Empire of Incest Museum", Performance at Limoncello Gallery, London, United Kingdom (Group Exhibition)
- Schindler Residency, MAK Center for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (Residency)

2007
- "Kein Trinkwasser", Gallery Stellwerk, Kassel, Germany (Solo Exhibition)
- "Gallery Exchange", Gallery Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "We´re All in This Together", Super Bien Projects, Berlin, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "Kein Trinkwasser", show review, PIN-UP Magazine for Art and Architecture (Publication)
- "The Erotics Project", ongoing writing project for Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts (Publication)

2006
- "Sarah&Simon", Platform Gallery, London, United Kingdom (Group Exhibition)
- "Renegade Cities - Pankof Bank Architects", The Architecture Foundation, London, United Kingdom (Solo Exhibition)
- "No Ball Games", site-specific project, The London Architecture Festival, United Kingdom
- "Dirt is a Never Ending Cycle", CQ Magazine (Publication)

2005
- "Supper-Market", Deptford X Art Festival, London, United Kingdom
- Rome Prize, Residency at British Academy in Rome, Italy (Residency)
PORTRAIT
Simon Fujiwara portrait
© Simon Fujiwara
FINAL PROJECT
"Impersonator," 2009 performance
"Impersonator," 2009 performance image
© MAK Center/Tom Queally

Project Details...
JURY
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou
Andrea Lenardin Madden
Gerhard Johann Lischka
Erwin Wurm
Peter Noever