SIMON LEWANDOWSKI
Exhibitions and Publications:
"Music as Image and Metaphor" SELECTIONS FROM THE KENTLER FLATFILES at the Bo Bartlett Center, New York. January 22 – March 20, 2021
"a ciascuno il suo: words fail"" The Project Space, School of Fine Art, Leeds. Solo Exhibition March 2018
Erik Satie's Vexations transposed for reversible record player. The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield. May 30-31st 2017.
Work For Readers and Writers, workshop, performance and installation at Plan Z, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Altea (UMH), Spain. November 15-26 2016
Work For Record Players: Rehearsal. Performance, May 5th 2016. Calder Studio, Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield.
Lesson in Semiotics: in memory of Umberto Eco, Public work – exterior of Nowhere Gallery, via del Caravaggio 14, Milan. March –July 2016.
SUPERNOVA (collective, curated by Karina el Heliou for STUDIOCUR/ART: www.studiocurart.com) March-April 2015, La Scatola Bianca, Milan.
...an angry mob broke in and destroyed the machine... March 13th-april 26th 2015 Angus Hughes Gallery, London.
Morphisisations (collective, curated by Ben Woodeson) August 2014, APT Gallery, London.
Palindrone Jukebox (with Sam Belinfante) January 2014-March 2014, PSL/The Tetley, Leeds.
The Reversing Machine (with Sam Belinfante) January 2014-March 2014, PSL/The Tetley, Leeds.
The Reversing Machine (with Sam Belinfante) 23rd March - 12th May 2012Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 3413359 Berlin
GIOCHI, PASSATEMPI E HARBINGERS, 15th September 2011 to 9th January 2012,NOWHERE Gallery, Milano
Wild Pansy Press Portable Reading Room, (with Chris Taylor) September 2011 ongoing. Designer, Curator.
101Project, (with AM Bruno) LAB Gallery, New York. November-december 2011.Group show of 101 videos each 101 seconds long.
HOTEL/MOTEL/MOTET installation and animated film with poet Richard Price; Wild Pansy Press Project Space, Leeds, 23rd February to 20th March 2011.
Wild Pansy Press Project Space, Leeds. Curator
HEADSTAMPMUSIC at Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery , 5 - 6 Boeing Way, London UB2 5LF. 1st October – 12th November 2010
NierghtravAOnWint’sIf A Teller: a book in 8 chapters and 4 dimensions. 24/7, Gooden Gallery, 25A Vyner Street, London, E2 9DG. Curator. 17th september to 19th November, changing weekly.
HOTEL/MOTEL/MOTET installation and animated film with poet Richard Price Jerwood Space, Union Street London, August 2nd to September 20th 2010.
MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE will be part of the programming for the BBC's London Big Screens, in association with the Projection Gallery, London.
Basement43 London, Project space, curator and exhibitor October - December 2009
Indoor Life Walden Affairs Gallery, den Haag, Netherlands, group show. November-December 2009
NIGHT WATCH, for 24/7 series, Gooden Gallery, London. November 2009
L’URLO E IL FURORE various artists. Nowhere Gallery, Milan. May-July 2009
MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE with Projection Gallery at FAT Festival, Toronto, April 2009
100 Things With Handles published by Wild Pansy Press, March 2009
HOTEL/MOTEL/MOTET installation and animated film with poet Richard Price for "Humbermouth" Literary Festival, Hull. June 2008
Investigations of Marginal Phenomena (from the British School of Telepathy Archive) Nowhere Gallery, Milan. May-July 2008
The Imagining Machine: an Investigation. Project and Publication. East Street Arts Project Space, Leeds. April 2008
seconds:: the imperfect artwork. Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland. December 2006
Crimes of Futility No.8:The Artistmachine Leeds City Art Gallery. October-November 2006
Crimes of Futility No.8:The Artistmachine with supporting catalogue. Mediateca Brera, Milan. May-June 2006
Vitrine, Group exhibition, Leeds City Centre various venues. March-May 2005
Sequences, Group Exhibition, Peterborough Digital Arts and UK touring to 2005
There is No Promised Land Stay Where You Are Rachel Haverkamp Gallery, Cologne. solo show with, site-specific sound installation. February-March 2004
Cyclic Eye, three-artist exhibition, with conference and workshops. Museu Paulista and University of Saõ Paolo, Brazil. January - April 2004
GOBBLEDYGOOK, group show at Centre Of Attention London. February - march 2003
Crimes of Futility No. 7: the Artistmachine Bonington Gallery, Nottingham. Solo show, installation of self-erasing drawing machine February 2003
Hearing Voices: New Work.Orebro Konsthall, Sweden. January- February 2003
Sentient Cog, group show featuring Crimes of Futility No.7: the Drawing Machine. 5th @ Guinness Storehouse, Gallery Dublin. August-September2002.
Printed Space London Print Studio Gallery: Drawing Machines, Prints and Multiples. November- January 2001
Model Behaviour. Kinetic sound intervention, Model Shop, Parkway, Camden town for Camden Remix with various artists in street locations. November 2001
Res Extensa/Res Cogitans for Paint Too-Sculptural Responses to Painting, with Various artists. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. May 2000
dogmanmachinemessage, short film distributed by Isis Arts as Part of Big M. Also screened by Museum of Contemporary Atrs and webcast by Studio 6 both Washington DC. 2000
UNSTILLIFE, video installation and digital photographs, Loughborough University Gallery. March-April 2000
DON'T WORRY, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Arts Project, Comission for public Art Project and multiple, in cluding Hospital Simulator and Mutoscope (patient Simulator) March - July 2000
The ReBabeliser. London Electronic Arts, LUX Gallery. March 1998
Ideas for Sale: Contemporary Multiples Cornerhouse, Manchester. September 1997
The ReBabeliser, ROOTless Festival, Hull. October 1997
Brought to Book, Collins Gallery, Glasgow and Scottish touring venues, from November 1996/7
International Symposium of Shadows, London, september 1996
Group Show Beyond The "Wow" Factor , New York State University, Purchase, NY, Shinjuku, Tokyo and UK Touring venues. 1994/ 6
Works on Film and Paper, Hardware Gallery and London Contemporary Art fair January 1994
Printout - 5 Printmakers Using New Technology Group Show Castlefield Gallery, Manchester. 1993
New York Jawline and Other Stories Hunt Jennings Gallery, London. 1993
Other Projects (some of them more interesting than the exhibitions... )
2006 Curator, Random Aggregate by Ben Woodeson , public sound installation for Leeds Fine Art Projects (LFAPTM).
2006 Curator, Steve Bell Does Art, exhibition, Leeds University Gallery.
2005 Nominated for Paul Hamlyn Foundation Bursary
2001 Award of £5000 from Arts and Humanities research Board, Small Grants scheme for project "Garage Futurism and Obselete Technology for the Twenty-first Century Artist".
1999 Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest Sculpture Project - July -August.
1999 for talking to dead people... multiple in edition of 100 published May 1999
1997 The ReBabeliser: Commission for Hull Time-Based Arts, ROOTless Festival
1997 London Arts Board Award for research and development of Multi-Media work
1996 Plato's Cave III: the Stumbling Machine British School of Telepathy production at the International Symposium of Shadows, West India Dock, London.
1996 British Council Lecture and Workshops project, Delhi and Calcutta.
1995 Plato's Cave II: The Futility Generator Residency and Installation, ELBA, Nijmegen, Holland
1995 Artist's Pages publishing project with COIL magazine, London
1995/6 British School Of Telepathy , website and research project for Falmouth College of Arts
1993 Plato's Cave, Residency and installation, Workspace series, Leeds ArtSpace/Leeds City Art Gallery.
1992/3 New Horizons Bursary from Gulbenkian Foundation for work on use of computers in visual research and installation.
1991 Fellowship, Royal College of Art, Printmaking School. Research into New Technologies in Printmaking.
