Born in 1982 in London, United Kingdom.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Education |
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| 2006-08 | Fine Art, Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2002-05 | Architecture BA, 1st Class Degree Hons with Distinction, Cambridge University |
Awards |
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| 2010 | The Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 41, Switzerland |
| The Cartier Award, Frieze Art Fair, UK | |
| 2009 | Arts Foundation Fellowship Award, National Prize, UK |
| 2008 | Schindler Residency, MAK Center for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2018 | Revolution, Lafayette Anticipations – Galeries Lafayette Corporate Foundation, Paris |
| Joanne, Galerie Wedding, Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin | |
| Hope House, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz | |
| 2016 | Figures in a Landscape, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf |
| Joanne, The Photographers' Gallery, London | |
| The Humanizer, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | |
| White Day, Tokyo Opera City Gallery | |
| The Way, Yu-un, Obayashi Collection, Tokyo | |
| 2015 | Modern Marriage, Public art sculpture (permanent), American Embassy Gardens, London |
| A Spire, Public art sculpture (permanent), Laidlaw Library, University of Leeds, Leeds | |
| 2014 | Three Easy Pieces, The Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| Rebekkah, Contemporary Art Society, London | |
| 2013 | Grand Tour, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig |
| The Problem of the Rock, Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, Fukuoka | |
| Simon Fujiwara, Art Sonje Center, Seoul | |
| 2012 | 1982, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives |
| 2011 | Welcome to the Hotel Munber, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto |
| 2010 | The Personal Effects of Theo Grünberg, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf |
| 2009 | Impersonator, Schindler House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2019 | Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal |
| Is This Tomorrow?, Whitechapel Gallery, London | |
| 2018 | Insane in the Membrane, Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf |
| Motherland in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow | |
| 2017 | Sur/Face: Mirrors, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2016 | The Happy Museum, Berlin Biennale 9, Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
| Joanne, Okayama Art Summit 2016, Okayama | |
| 2015 | Storylines, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
| 2014 | Un Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| 2013 | Sharjah Biennial |
| 2012 | Shanghai Biennial |
| Gwangju Biennial | |
| 2010 | São Paulo Biennial |
| 2009 | 53rd Venice Biennale |
Simon Fujiwara’s early installations and narrative performances (2008-2012) largely traced his own identity formation as a multi-part auto-fiction presented through therestaging of his own childhood events, reconstructions of historical places associated with his conception and the mythologizing of his origins as an artist. His work can be seen as a complex response and sometimes critique of the increasing cultural obsession with self-presentation that new technologies offered to his generation. Working often in collaboration with others in the telling of supposedly personal stories, Fujiwara's work explores the concept of the contemporary individual – self-determined, self-narrativised, unique – and presents a highly contingent notion of the self that can only be defined through the participation of others.
