Simon Martin (artist)

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Simon Martin (born 1965) is an English artist living and working in London, known for his video works. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

Martin was born in Cheshire, England, in 1965. [4] [5] He attended the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, between 1985 and 1989. [6]

Career

In 2005, Martin showed his video work Wednesday Afternoon in solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York City; Counter Gallery, London; [7] and The Power Plant, Toronto. [8] Reviewing the New York exhibition in The New York Times , Roberta Smith called the work a "a minor masterpiece of poetic discretion". [9]

In 2011, his film Louis Ghost Chair, commissioned by the British organization Film and Video Umbrella, premiered at the Holbourne Museum in Bath. [10] [11] [12] His film Lemon 03 Generations (Turn it Around version) was presented as an outdoor projection by the Henry Moore Foundation in December 2014. [13] [14]

In 2015, he presented his film UR Feeling in a solo show at the Camden Arts Centre. [1] [15] [16] Known until this point for his films that portrayed only static objects, [17] UR Feeling was his first work to use human performers. [18]

He was included in the 2006 Tate Triennial. [19] [20]

In 2008, he received the £45,000 Paul Hamlyn Foundation visual-arts award. [21] [22]

Since 2005, he has worked in sound art.

Collections

Martin's work is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art [23] and the Tate Museum, London. [19]

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  1. 1 2 "Simon Martin". MAP Magazine. 1 March 2009.
  2. ↑ Colin Ledwith; Polly Staple (11 May 2007). You Have Not Been Honest: Contemporary Film and Video from the UK. British Council. ISBN   9780863555824.
  3. ↑ "Here's Looking at You". Frieze (113). 2 March 2008.
  4. ↑ "Simon Martin Born 1965". Tate.
  5. ↑ "British Artist Simon Martin's New Exhibition 'UR Feeling' Opens at Camden Arts Centre". artdaily.com.
  6. ↑ "Simon Martin". Goldsmiths, University of London.
  7. ↑ "Simon Martin at Counter Gallery". Artforum .
  8. ↑ "The Power Plant – Simon Martin: Wednesday Afternoon – 2006 – Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre". The Power Plant . Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  9. ↑ Smith, Roberta (9 September 2005). "Art in Review; Simon Martin". The New York Times .
  10. ↑ Clark, Robert; Sherwin, Skye (28 January 2012). "This Week's New Exhibitions". The Guardian .{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ "Simon Martin's Louis Ghost Chair Installation Premieres at The Holburne Museum in Bath". Culture24.
  12. ↑ Gosling, Emily (19 December 2011). "Louis Ghost Chair".
  13. ↑ Guido Reuter; Ursula Ströbele (2017). Skulptur und Zeit im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. pp. 169–. ISBN   978-3-412-50453-3.
  14. ↑ "Event Sculpture 4: Simon Martin, 'Lemon 03 Generations (Turn it Around version)' (2014) - Online papers - Research - Henry Moore Foundation". Henry Moore Foundation.
  15. ↑ "Simon Martin: UR Feeling". Wall Street International. 10 March 2015.
  16. ↑ "Simon Martin: UR Feeling, Camden Arts Centre - exhibition review". Evening Standard . 23 April 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  17. ↑ "Kunstverein » Simon Martin".
  18. ↑ "Simon Martin: UR Feeling - Art in London". Time Out London . 22 July 2015.
  19. 1 2 "'Wednesday Afternoon', Simon Martin, 2005". Tate.
  20. ↑ "'Carlton', Simon Martin, 2006". Tate. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  21. ↑ "Recipients of Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Martha Hill Achievement Awards". Artforum .
  22. ↑ "Paul Hamlyn Foundation Announces The Recipients Of The 2008 Awards for the Visual Arts and Composers". classicalsource.com.
  23. ↑ "Wednesday Afternoon – DMA Collection Online". Dallas Museum of Art.
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