Born in 1982 in London, Simon Fujiwara spent his childhood between Japan, England, Spain and Africa. In January 2012, Tate St Ives hosted his first major solo survey exhibition ‘Since 1982’ which was held in his hometown of St Ives and accordingly featured six of his key autobiographically charged installations.
In 2011 Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer theatre showed his first theatre work The Boy Who Cried Wolf which incorporated three of his acclaimed performances into a full three-act play which subsequently toured to New York’s Performa 11 Biennale and San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions around the world including Toronto’s Power Plant, New York’s MoMA, Artonje Centre, Seoul, and Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Singapore Biennale, Taipei Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, among others.
His installations have entered numerous prestigious international museums and foundation collections including the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Prada Foundation, Milan and the Tate collection, London.
In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious Baloise-Art Prize at Art Basel and the Cartier Award at Frieze Art Fair.
He has published two artist’s books, The Museum of Incest and 1982.
Simon Fujiwara lives and works in Berlin.
SIMON FUJIWARA
Lucky Dip (from the series Spanish Still Lives)
2013
Papier mâché, wrought iron guitar, metal chain, steel hooks,
terracotta vase and paint
42 x 39 x 317 cm
