Simon Martin (artist)
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Martin was born in Cheshire, England, in 1965.[4][5] He attended the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, between 1985 and 1989.[6]
Career
In 2005, Martin showed his video work Wednesday Afternoon in solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York City; Counter Gallery, London;[7] and The Power Plant, Toronto.[8] Reviewing the New York exhibition in The New York Times, Roberta Smith called the work a "a minor masterpiece of poetic discretion".[9]
In 2011, his film Louis Ghost Chair, commissioned by the British organization Film and Video Umbrella, premiered at the Holbourne Museum in Bath.[10][11][12] His film Lemon 03 Generations (Turn it Around version) was presented as an outdoor projection by the Henry Moore Foundation in December 2014.[13][14]
In 2015, he presented his film UR Feeling in a solo show at the Camden Arts Centre.[1][15][16] Known until this point for his films that portrayed only static objects,[17] UR Feeling was his first work to use human performers.[18]
He was included in the 2006 Tate Triennial.[19][20]
In 2008, he received the £45,000 Paul Hamlyn Foundation visual-arts award.[21][22]
Since 2005, he has worked in sound art.