SIMON ALDRIDGE
Biography
Born in London 1974,
currently lives and works in New York.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
A
Place to Play without
getting Hurt, Cohan and Leslie, New
York, 2005.
Wallride and Glue Paintings, Mark
Pasek Gallery, New
York, 2001.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Gangbusters,
Plane
Space, New York, 2008.
Jaguar Art Cars, Jaguar North America and W-Magazine, Southampton, New York, 2005.
Pinata Party, Passerby, Gavin Brown’s
Enterprise, New York, 2004. Curated by Itcanchange.
Sadie Hawkins Show, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, 2004.
Benefitting LMCC, DKNY Soho and World Financial
Center, New York,
2004.
Abstraction with a Twist, Elga
Wimmer, New York,
2004.
Architextures, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, 2004. Curated by Samantha Dorfman.
Framing Architecture, Elga Wimmer, New York, 2003 - Simon
Aldridge, Eric Brown, Terence Gower, Wade Guyton, Patrick Meagher, Anton Vidokle. Curated
by Daniel Marzona.
Subject Space, TURF at Felissimo
Design House, New York, 2003. Curated by Jane
Simon.
Shadow Cabinets, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2003. Curated by ItCanChange.
After Matisse Picasso, P.S.1 Moma Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2003.
New York Fucking City, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn,
2003.
Painting as Paradox, Artist's Space, New
York, 2002. Catalogue.
Simon Aldridge, Ellen Altfest,
Judith Eisler, Karel Funk,
Michael Phelan, Kelley Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and
others, curated by Lauri Firstenberg.
Microviews,
Municipal Art Society, New York,
2002.
Curated by
Moukhtar Kocache.
Retrofit, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New
York, 2002. Simon Aldridge, Fabian Birgfeld, Michael Phelan,
Kelley Walker and others, curated by Lauri Firstenberg.
The Meaning of Style, Brooklyn
Front, Brooklyn,
2002.
Curated by
Anne Ellegood.
Reactions, Exit Art, New
York, 2002.
Pentagon Memorial Competition, National
Building Museum, Washington, DC,
2002.
World Views, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, 2001. Curated by Moukhtar
Kocache.
Art Heals Auction for WTC Orphans, Eyebeam Atelier, New York, 2001. Featuring Rita Ackerman, Simon Aldridge, Jennifer Anniston and
others.
Minimal to Excess, Bucheon
Gallery, San Fransisco, 2001. Curated by Mery
Lynn McCorkle.
Groundzero:01, 129 Lafayette, New York, 2001. Curated by Erin
Donnelly and Susanna Cole.
Paper, Mark
Pasek Gallery, New
York, 2001.
Hello…My Name Is, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, 2001.
Works on Paper, Carpenter Center for
The Visual Arts, Harvard University,
1997.
RIBA Medal Winners, Royal Institute of
British Architects, London,
1996.
Wembley, London Transport Museum, London,
1994.
Awards and Fellowships
Jury Selection, Pentagon Memorial Competition, 2002.
New York Foundation For The Arts - NYARF Grant, 2002.
New York Association For New Americans Grant, 2002.
Pollock-Krasner Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 2001.
World Views Artist-In-Residence at the World Trade Center,
91st floor, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, 2001.
The Robert Gavron Award, The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust, London, 1998.
Kennedy Scholarship (2nd year
award)
to Harvard University,
Kennedy Memorial Trust, 1997.
Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard University,
Kennedy Memorial Trust, 1996.
RIBA Medal for Architecture in Education, Royal
Institute of British Architects, 1995.
Art Prize and Drew Fellowship
Award, Winchester College, 1992.
Queen’s
Trust Award, Queen’s Royal Anniversary Trust, 1992.
Books and Catalogues
Site Matters published by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, 2004.
Office Manual by Simon Aldridge,
Simon Aldridge Studio Press, Brooklyn,
2004.
Misspent Youth by Simon Aldridge, Simon
Aldridge Studio Press, Brooklyn,
2003.
Painting as Paradox, edited by Lauri
Firstenberg, Artist's Space, New
York, 2002.
Isolation House by Simon Aldridge,
Simon Aldridge Studio Press, New
York, 2002.
Death, edition of 100, edited and produced by Patrick McNeil (Faile),
New York, 2001.
Operation Orange, edition of 49, produced by Patrick McNeil (Faile)
with Cedric Jeanson, 2001.
Studioworks 5, Harvard University Press, 1998.
Aldridge, Simon.
"Museum of the 20th Century", Artifice,
McCorquodale, Duncan, Ed. University College Press, London, 1996.
Selected Bibliography
Gran Turismo
Art,
(carbongeek.com, April 20, 2005).
Rare
Weekend - Simon Aldridge is our kind of guy, (Rarei,
April 14, 2005).
Robinson, Walter. Weekend Update, (artnet.com, April 7, 2005).
Haber, John. Simon Aldridge, Ingrid Calame, Pat Steir, and Ernst Haas, (2005).
Cotter,
Holland. Sadie Hawkins Dance,
(The New York Times, June 25, 2004).
Cotter,
Holland. Weekend Fine Arts
and Leisure, (The New York Times, Feb
21, 2003).
Halken, Talya.
In with the New, (The New
York Sun, December 12, 2002).
Sundell, Margaret. Life
after Death - A new survey at Artist's Space takes the
pulse of contemporary painting, (Time Out New York, November 21, 2002).
Gute, Charles, Ed. with Menin, Samuele and Robecchi, Michele. Focus Painting Part
One - Contemporary Painting Today, (Flash Art, No.226, October 2002).
Pentagon Memorial...Simon Aldridge, CNN, (Friday August 31st, 2002).
Cash, Stephanie. Studios
in the Sky, (Art in America, March 2002).
Simon Aldridge Interview on World
Views,
New Museum of Contemporary Art, (NY1 interview, 2001).
Desai, Anuj. Death, (BlackBook, Winter
2001-02 progressive urban culture, 2001).
Section: The
Arts/Cultural Desk, (The New York Times, November
28, 2001).
Cash, Stephanie. Downtown Arts Groups, (Art in America 2001).
Park, Jennifer. Simon Aldridge,
(substancezine.com, first issue, 2001).
Reid, Calvin. The
East Village Revisited, (artnet.com, August 2000).
RIBA
Medal Winners, (Architects' Journal, Vol. 202, No. 23, 1995).
Simon Aldridge wins RIBA, (Building Design
Magazine, December 15, 1995).
Selected Writing and Discussion
New Voices on Modernity at Pratt Institute, 2004. Panel discussion featured artist Simon Aldridge, the Whitney Museum's Shamim Momin, Dr. Damien P. O'Doherty from the University of Manchester, and Pratt's
John Szot speaking on the relevance of modernity to
today's cultural production. Organized by XMAC - the
Experimental Modern Arts Collective.
Painting as Paradox - Roundtable Discussion - Artist's Space, New
York, 2002. Ellen Harvey, Darren Wardle, Simon Aldridge, Kehinde
Wiley and others, moderated by Lauri Firstenberg.
All Over My Body Inside My Head...An Artist's
Statement, Aldridge, Simon. Bakke, Erik, Ed.,
(NY Arts, Vol. 7 No. 6, June 2002).