Simon Head Born – Winchester, Hampshire.1951
Artist lives and works in London
Career Engineering draughtsman
Apprentice printing block-maker
Typographer
Photographer
Writer
Selected group exhibitions
2005 Revolver, A+D Gallery – London
2006 ‘Mark’ symposium – Dartington Hall, Devon
2007 19th, LIP Exhibition, London
2007 Black & White, Gallery 12, London
2009 ‘IMPROMPTU’ Schwartz Gallery, London
2011 The Royal Photographic Society Members Print Exhibition
2011 The Royal Photographic Society
154th International Print Exhibition
2012 The Royal Photographic Society
155th International Print Exhibition
2012 ‘MEMORIAL::LAIROMEM’ – Crossing Lines – Summer Show, July 2012
2012 The London Villages Project Exhibition – Goldsmiths, London
2012 ‘SNAPSHOTS’ – Brick Lane Gallery/The Annexe,
London – Photo Month, 25 October – 4 November
2013 Film as Measure – Exhibition and Symposium –
Chelsea College of Art and Design, February 2013
2016 ‘That Burning Field’ – half-life project space, London
2017 ‘Interim Spaces’ – RK Burt Gallery
2017 The Royal West of England Academy –
165 Annual Open Exhibition
2018 The Columbia Threadneedle Prize – The Mall Gallery, London
2018 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
2018 ‘The Idea of Absence’ – Work from a collaborative residency,
Exhibition – The Crypt, St John on Bethnal Green, London
Lectures and talks
2009 Chelsea Art College – to Fine Art MA students
2010 ‘Testimonio’ – First talk at Photofusion Brixton
Selected solo exhibitions
1994 Electricity: The restructuring of an Industry, London
1997 ‘Terminal Language’ @ The Poetry Society, London
2004 ‘d e n i a l’ – London Centre of Psychotherapy
2004 ‘a u t o e x p o s u r e’ – The Engineer, London
2005 ‘bridge’ – Kingsgate Gallery, London
2008 ‘time-image-structure’ – O+O gallery, Valencia. Spain
2015 ‘slipped slate’ – half-life project space, London
Publications
2008 Art Signal and www.arteseleccion.com
Exposicion fotografica de Simon Head – Oscar Garcia Garcia
2008 LIP – 20th Annual Exhibition Catalogue
2009 a.n. magazine – May issue –
Review of ‘IMPROMPTU’ at Schwartz Gallery – Heather Phillipson
2009 LIP – 21st Annual Exhibition Catalogue
2010 ‘testimonio’ self published book
2010 ‘OUR COMMON GROUND’ self published book
2010 LIP – 22nd Annual Exhibition Catalogue
2010 FLIP magazine – Issue 17 – article on the ‘testimonio’ project
2011 Royal Photographic Society, Contemporary Group Journal –
Issue 42 – article on ‘gard’ning’ project
2012 ‘Thames Reflex / Waterloo Bridge’
for The London Villages Project and a self published book
