Simon Patterson (born 1967) is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead, Surrey. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 for his exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery, the Gandy Gallery, and three shows in Japan. He is the younger brother of the painter Richard Patterson.
Simon patterson presents open up episode 160 25 02 2016
Life and career
Patterson attended Hertfordshire College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College between 1985 and 1989. At Goldsmiths he was included in the Freeze Exhibition organized by Damien Hirst, showing two wall text pieces, one simply showing the names Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the other, The Last Supper Arranged According to the Flat Back Four Formation (Jesus Christ in Goal) showing the names of the Apostles arranged as different football team systems with Jesus in goal.
He is perhaps best known for his work The Great Bear from 1992, an editioned print which reworks the London Underground map. Patterson is taking an order system that exists within the world and applies it to another set of subjects. In this case he switched the names from the stations with names from famous people. Each Line is a different group of people, like actors, philosophers, footballers etc. An edition was purchased by Charles Saatchi and shown in the Sensation exhibition of 1997 which toured London, Berlin and New York. An edition is in the Tate Gallery collection and is currently on display at Tate Britain in London.
Patterson has also created large scale projects such as Cosmic Wallpaper at the University of Warwick, a Wilfred Owen tribute (Maison Forestière) , and he also participated in the MoMA's "The Project Series, 70, Banners I". The projects goal for each Simon, Shirin Neshat and Xu Bing was to test the ramifications of the written word in their own unique perspective to be display at the Museum’s Fifty-third Street facade flanked by banners bearing MoMA’s logo from 22 November 1999 - 1 May 2000.
"Cartographers" Galerjie Grada Zagreba, Zagreb. Touring to Centre for Contemporary Art [9] (1997), Warsaw
"Manned Flight" Baskerville House [10] (1 November 2000 – 31 January 2001), London
"Sies+Hoeke Galerie" Solo Exhibition [11] (2001), Düsseldorf
"Manned flight and Colour Match" Solo Exhibition, Lille [12] (2001), France
"Exhibitions: Paper Democracy. Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper" Group Exhibition, Edifício Cultura Inglesa [13] (23 September - December 2004), São Paulo
"Domini Canes. Hounds of God" Lowood Gallery and Kennels [14] (1 November 2000 – 31 January 2001), London
"Come to Light, Cell Projects" [16] (2005), London.
"Tall Stories" MOT, Group Exhibition [17] (13 August - 17 September 2005), London.
"100 Artists see God" Independent Curators International (ICI), The Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Museum, Laguna California; ICA, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; and Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee; Group Exhibition [18] (2004–2006), San Francisco.
"Plantation Lane" Architecture on the streets of London with Arup Associates [19] (2006), London.
"Sarah and Simon" Platform Gallery [20] (2006), London.
"This will not happen without you: from the collective archive of the Basement Group" Projects UK and Locus+ 1977-2006, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, touring to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and Interface Gallery, Belfast [21] (2006), Belfast.
"(C)Artography: Mapmaking as Artform" Crawford Art Gallery, [22] (2007), Cork.
"No Future" Crawford Art Gallery, [23] (29 September – 10 November 2007), Bloomberg Space.
"Rights of Way" Café Gallery, [24] (17 May – 8 July 2007), Southwark Park.
"Mapping The Imagination" The Victoria and Albert Museum [25] (2007), London.
"Mapping" Bury Art Gallery, Museum and Archives [26] (1 April – 14 July 2007), Bury.
"Black-List" Solo Exhibition at Haunch of Venison Gallery [27] (19 January - 24 February 2007), London.
"Long Distance Information" British Council Arts, National Gallery of Bengal Arts in Dhaka, Bangladesh (24 January - 15 February), PNCA in Islamabad, Pakistan (5 March – 11 April 2008) and the Museum of Fine Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan from 29 April - 13 May 2008 [28] (24 January - 24 May 2008), London.
"International Match" at Carinthian Museum of Modern Art (Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten/MMKK) [29] (8 May - 29 June 2008), Klagenfurt.
"Simon Patterson: the Undersea World and Other Stories" Solo Exhibition, The National Maritime Museum [30] (4 May - 26 October 2008), Greenwich.
"Simon Patterson: In Orbit" Solo Exhibition, Roentgenwerke [31] (3 October - 3 November 2008), Tokyo.
"Dazzle Ships" Graniph Gallery, Solo Exhibition [32] (3 October - 3 November 2008), Fukuoka.
"Wilfred Owen : La Maison Forestière - Time Piece" Solo Exhibition [33] (26 April - 30 May 2008), Lille.
"Smoke" Pumphouse Gallery [34] (5 October - 14 December 2008), London.
"Print the Legend: the Myth of the West" Group Exhibition, The Fruitmarket Gallery [35] (1 March - 4 May 2008), Edinburgh.
