SIMON DENNY





1982    Born, Auckland, New Zealand

2004    BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand

2009    Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (prof. Willem De Rooij)

2010    Studio program, Kölnischer Kunstverein



Simon Denny currently lives and works in Auckland and Cologne.





SELECTED EXHIBITIONS



2010

Introductory Logic Video Tutorial, Artspace, Sydney (solo)

Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Strait Line, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (group)

Upcoming

Simon Denny, Matthew Buckingham, Will Bradley, Landings, Vestfossen, Norway (group)

Permanent Mimesis: an Exhibition on Realism and Simulation, GAM-galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Torino, Italy (group)

Let Us Compare Mythologies, Witte De With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (performance series)

Der Western leuchtet, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (group)

More Pricks Thank Kicks, David Roberts Foundation, London, England (group)

2009

Deep Sea Vaudeo, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (solo)

Starting from behind, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Watching Videos Dry, T293, Naples, Italy (solo)

Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (group)

Seven Drunken Videos, Luttgen Meijer, Berlin, Germany (solo)



2008

Aquarium Paintings (with Nick Austin), Centre, Berlin, Germany (two-person)

Witte de Withe curated section: Show Me Don’t Tell Me, Brussels Biennale, Belgium (solo presentation)

79a Brick Lane, London, United Kingdom (solo presentation)

The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France (group)

Alexandra Bircken / Simon Denny, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (two person)

Revolutions: Forms that Turn, Sydney Biennale 2008, Sydney, Australia (solo presentation)

Recent Haircuts, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)

Recent Haircuts, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Leftovers, Micamoca Berlin, Berlin, Germany (group)

I am a man, Parade with Arto Lindsay, Portikus, MMK and the Stadelshule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (group)

Menschheit, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, Ireland (group)

Liste 08, Michael Lett Stand, Basel, Switzerland (group)

Art LA, Michael Lett Stand, Los Angeles, Unitied States of America (group)



2007

Post Mass Audience Age, Hamburg Hfbk Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (group)

Monthly Cowards, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Compression Club, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Filaturen, Sies + Höke Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany (group)

Domestic Irony, Museion, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy (group)

The Köln Show 2, European Kunsthalle / Galerie Sprueth Magers, Köln, Germany (group)

Paltry Motion, Dunedin Pubic Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand (solo) (Exh. Cat.)

Moment Making, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (group)

Prospect, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (group)

Group Show!, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand (group)



2006

Break/Construct, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth New Zealand (group)

Old entertainment system, Window, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

54321 Performance Projects, with Tahi Moore, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland New Zealand (group)

Mostly Harmless: performance series, with Tahi Moore, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth New Zealand (group)

Archiving Fever, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (group)

The Natural Order of Tact LISTE 06 Art Fair (solo show) Michael Lett Stand, Basel, Switzerland (solo)

SCAPE, Art & Industry Biennial, Christchurch New Zealand (solo project)

News is also on Television, live performance with Tahi Moore, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand (two person)

Old Things, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)



2005

They Who Would Eat the Fruit Must First Climb the Tree, with Tahi Moore, RM103, Auckland, New Zealand (two person)

Waikato Art Awards, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand (group)

Arranging Sympathies, Volume Series, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand (solo)

A Process of Bewilderment, with Tahi Moore, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (two person)

Creative New Zealand recent graduate show, CNZ Offices Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Tahi and Simon find the morning towards the border of bewilderment and begin construction, with Tahi Moore, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (two person)



2004

Left Di Right, with Tahi Moore, Special Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (two person)

Auckland Project, 2nd Auckland Triennial Public/Private Tumatanui/Tumataiti, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (group)

Ergophobia, Windowspace, with Tahi Moore, Cnr Custom Street and Commerce St, Auckland, New Zealand (two person)



2003

Die Die Die, George Fraser Gallery, with Tahi Moore, Auckland, New Zealand (two person)





SELECTED BIBILIOGRAPHY



2008

Ceccaldi, Nicolas, “Recent Haircuts,” exhibition essay, Uplands Gallery

Denny, Simon, “Wallpaper music,” introduction, The Delivery: Gambia Castle Exhibitions 2007, Gambia Castle Press, 2008

Schroeder, Katja, “Simon Denny: Interview,” Simon Denny (solo catalogue), Ursula Blickle Stiftung



2007

Levinson, David, “Compession Club,” exhibition essay, www.michaellett.com

Levinson, David, PRIX-CHOC, Issue 1, Michael Lett Publishing

Barr, Jim and Mary, “Take Something,” Paltry Motion (solo catalogue), Michael Lett and Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Denny, Simon, “What comes in a box?” Paltry Motion (solo catalogue), Michael Lett and Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Eggleton, David, “Plastic Fantastic,” The New Zealand Listener, 21-27 May 2007, Vol. 208, No 3498

Hans, Annette, “Simon Denny,” The Köln Show 2 (catalogue)

Laird, Tessa, “New School,” The New Zealand Listener, 10-16 March 2007, Vol. 207, No. 3487

Laird, Tessa, “End of western civilization,” The New Zealand Listener, 30 December - 5 January 2007, Vol. 206 No. 3477



2006

Laird, Tessa, “A bigger splash,” The New Zealand Listener, 10-16 June 2006, Vol. 204 No. 3448

Laird, Tessa, “Inorganic collection,” The New Zealand Listener, 18-24 March 2006, Vol. 202 No. 3436

Levinson, David, “Simon Denny: Old Entertainment System @ Window,” Lumiere Reader

McIntyre, Sally, “Simon Denny: Old Things,” Art Asia Pacific, pg.116, No. 50, Fall 2006

Moore, Tahi, “Making things old,” catalogue essay accompanying Michael Lett publication Old Things



2005

Giblin, Tessa, ”Staccato,” Volume (a Physics Room Publication), Issue #2, September 2005

Laird, Tessa, “Pest Modernism,” New Zealand Listener, pg.46, September 2005

Denny, Simon, “Special Magazine,” Natural Selection #4, insert, 2005

Lane, Chloe, Natural Selection #5, 2005