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Both Born 1973 Birmingham UK
Live and work in London & Birmingham UK
Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2013
Children's Art Commission: Loose Parts
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Design for Pleasure
Royal Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa (Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum commission)
2011
Formula for Living
Cotham School, Bristol (Bristol City Council commission)
Happy Habitat Revisited
South London Gallery, London
The Fascination of Islands
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee
2010
Hit and Miss
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
2009
My Native Vale
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Hey for Lubberland!
Ikon off–site, Birmingham
As long as it lasts
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
2008
Mould the Universe
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
2007
The Ballad of Gunpowder Joe
MOT International, London
Kiosk7:OudWestKiosk
SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (in collaboration with Gavin Wade)
Kiosk6:Intellect&ComprehensionKiosk
Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy (in collaboration with Gavin Wade)
2006
Modes of Civic Life
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Various Positions
Het Wide Weten, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The wide world is all about you
Ikon off–site, Birmingham
2005
What are the senses?
Dudley Zoological Gardens, Dudley
Group Exhibitions
2012
How to Solve Problems in the Office
Trade, Nottingham
FESTIVELA
Gallery Vela, London
Things That Have Interested Me
Waterside Contemporary, London
B.C. #2.1
Beach, London
B.C. #2
Mexico Project Space, Leeds
2011
LOCWS International 2011
LOCWS International, Swansea
2010
Fifteen
S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Kosmos Kiosk
Neuer Kunstverein Gießen, Gießen, Germany
‘The decade 2010–2020’ The museum as hostage to fortune
The Pigeon Wing, London (curated by An Endless Supply)
Oneiriography
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak)
Euphorbia Serrata
Sils, Rotterdam
A Stranger's Window
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham (curated by Moot, Nottingham)
2009
Lobby
Cell Project Space, London
Extra Extra
China Art Objects, Los Angeles
Neither Here, Nor There
Leicester City Gallery off–site, Leicester
2008
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art
Art on the Underground, A Foundation Rochelle School, London
Beck's Fusions
Contemporary Art Society, Castlefield Arena, Manchester
The Long Take
Moot, Nottingham
Folkestone Triennial2008: Tales of Time & Space
Folkestone, Kent (in collaboration with Nils Norman and Gavin Wade)
ARTfutures 08
Bloomberg Space, London
.raw esperanto
Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007
Binary Oppositions
CITRIC Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Among Us
Pavilion Projects, Montreal, Canada
Propoganda Machine
Serpentine Gallery, London (curated by MOT International)
Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Tent, Rotterdam, Netherlands
KIOSK
Capital Art Projects, Birmingham
ARTfutures 07
Bloomberg Space, London
Thin Cities
Platform for Art, Piccadilly Line, London Underground, London
2006
Rotterdam [Inter]nationaal
Artstore Kunstambassade, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Eastside Arts Picnic
Ikon off–site, Birmingham
Strategic Questions: Platform 06
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria & De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Merz
Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria (in collaboration with Gavin Wade)
2005
The Artist with Two Brains
St Paul’s Church, Birmingham (curated by MOT International)
Public Structures
2nd GuangZhou Triennial, China (curated by Gavin Wade)
Aw Jock Tamson’s Bairns
Changing Rooms, Stirling
All at once, together, at the same time
Colony, Birmingham
Art Sheffield 05: Spectator T
S1 Artspace & other venues, Sheffield
Fearless Vampire Killers
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (contribution to project by Jedediah Caesar)
2004
Romantic Detachment
Grizedale Arts, PS1, New York
Q Arts, Derby
Chapter, Cardiff
Folly, Lancaster
Pilot:1
Pilot international art forum, Limehouse Town hall, London
And I and I and I and I
Locust Projects, Miami (contribution to project by Jedediah Caesar)
Strange Animal
LACE, Los Angeles (contribution to project by Jedediah Caesar)
2003
Roadshow
Grizedale Arts, Grizedale, Cumbria
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Lickey Hills, Birmingham
Real Institute, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
Vilma Gold, London
Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee
Publications
& Labels issue 2, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design 2011
‘The Decade 2010–2020' The museum as hostage to fortune, An Endless Supply 2010
Something to do and Somewhere to do it, Modern Art Oxford 2010
We Love Artists: Artist Residences Around the World, Someone’s Garden/BNN, Tokyo 2009
Art and Text, Black Dog Publishing, London 2009
Grizedale Arts—Adding Complexity to Confusion Grizedale Books, Ambleside, Cumbria 2009
Simon & Tom Bloor: As long as it lasts, Eastside Projects, Birmingham 2009
Thin Cities, Art on the Underground, London 2008
Kiosk5: KiteKiosk, Strategic Questions, Birmingham 2008 (Artist’s book, with Nils Norman & Gavin Wade)
Folkestone Triennial: Tales of Time And Space, Cultureshock Media, London 2008 (Exhibition catalogue)
Platform for Art: Art on the Underground, Black Dog Publishing, London 2007
As if something once mentioned, now plain to see, Colony Publications, Birmingham 2007
SMART papers Kiosk7: OudWestKiosk, SMART Project Space Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Artist’s book, with Gavin Wade)
Kiosk6: Intellect&ComprehensionKiosk, Strategic Questions, Birmingham 2007 (Artist’s book, with Gavin Wade)
Springhill Institute, Report on Activities Springhill Institute, Birmingham 2007
The Necessity of Everyday Living, Platform For Art, London 2007 (Artist’s book)
Artist Links 2002–2006, Artist Links (British Council/Arts Council England), China 2006
Kiosk3: MERZKIOSK, Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria 2006 (Artist’s book, with Gavin Wade)
Merz, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2006 (Exhibition catalogue)
Generator 1, Article Press, Birmingham 2006
Beck’s futures 2006, ICA publications, London 2006
The second Guangzhou Triennial: Beyond: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, Guangzhou Triennial, China 2006 (Exhibition catalogue)
What are the senses?, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council 2005 (Artist’s book)
Roadshow, Grizedale Books, Ambleside, Cumbria 2003 (Exhibition catalogue)
Press
Art and playgrounds by Simon and Tom Bloor, Paige Johnson, Playscapes blog, 19 July 2012
Things That Have Interested Me, Skye Sherwin, The Guardian Guide, 19 May 2012
Locws International 2011 Art Across The City, Emma Geliot, a-n magazine, June 2011
Locws International 2011 Art Across The City, Clare Ferguson-Walker, a-n website, April 2011
Simon & Tom Bloor: The Fascination of Islands, Jon Blackwood, a-n magazine, April 2011
Simon & Tom Bloor: Hit and Miss, James Smith, This is Tomorrow website, 28 October 2010
Simon and Tom Bloor; Manfred Pernice: Modern Art, Oxford, Helen Peacocke, The Oxford Times,
6 October 2010
Simon and Tom Bloor As long as it lasts, James Langdon, Grafik, Issue 177, September 2009
Simon and Tom Bloor, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 21 February 2009
Folkestone Triennial, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze, Issue 117, September 2008
There’s life in the old gull yet, Rachel Cooke, The Observer, 15 June 2008
Folkestone Triennial, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 20 June 2008
Art in old places, Simon Grant, Apollo, July 2008
Simon & Tom Bloor—The Ballad of Gunpowder Joe, Sally O’Reilly, Art Review, Issue 19, February 2008
Kiosk7: OudwestKiosk, Marek Bartelik, Artforum, March 2008
All at once, together, at the same time, Alli Beddoes, a-n Magazine, January 2006
Art Sheffield 05: Spectator T, Michelle Atherton, Art Monthly, Issue 292, December 2005
Strategic Questions, Fused Magazine, Issue 24, 2005
Grants & Residencies
2011–12
Whitechapel Gallery
Residency, Hermitage Primary School, London
2009
Elephant Trust
Grant for As long as it lasts publication
2008
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Residency
2007
Henry Moore Foundation
Grant for Kiosk7: OudwestKiosk, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (with Gavin Wade)
2006
Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
Residency (funded by Arts Council England)
2005
UCE, Birmingham
Generator 1 Curatorial Research & Development Grant
2004
Grizedale Arts, Cumbria
Residency/Research & Development Grant
Arts Council England
International Research and Development Grant
Education
1997–2000
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
Also...
We are founding directors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham
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