Simon Aldridge
| Simon Aldridge | |
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| Born | 1974 London, England |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 🏫 Education | The Bartlett and Harvard University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Conceptual art, installation art, painting |
| 🏅 Awards | RIBA Bronze Medal for Part 1 Students, Kennedy Scholarship, World Views Artist-in-Residence at the World Trade Center, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
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Simon Aldridge (born London, 1974) is a post-conceptual artist working in New York City.
Education[edit]
Simon Aldridge was born in London, England. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's School and Winchester College. He graduated with a BSc from The Bartlett and an MA from Harvard University.
Career[edit]
Work[edit]
In 2001 Aldridge was a World Views Artist-in-Residence at the World Trade Center (1973–2001).[1] After the destruction of the World Trade Center, the 2001 cohort of artists had their open studios at the New Museum.[1]
In 2002, Aldridge was included in Flash Art Magazine's survey of ‘Contemporary Painting Today’.[2]
Exhibitions[edit]
Aldridge's work has been exhibited at the Grey Art Gallery,[3] the New Museum,[4] the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art,[5] SculptureCenter,[6] MoMA PS1[7] the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany,[8] Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York in 2002,[9][10] Brooklyn Front Gallery,[11] Mark Pasek Gallery,[12] and Elga Wimmer.
Awards[edit]
In 2001, Aldridge was a World Views Artist-In-Residence at the World Trade Center (1973-2001) in New York, and he was also the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2002 his design for the Pentagon Memorial was shortlisted and exhibited at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
- RIBA – Bronze Medal for Part 1 Students – 1995[13]
- Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard University – 1996
- World Views Artist-In-Residence at the World Trade Center – 2001[14]
- Pollock-Krasner Grant / Pollock-Krasner Foundation – 2001
- Jury Selection, Pentagon Memorial Competition – 2002[15]
- American Institute of Architects Alice Washburn Award – 2012
Catalogues[edit]
- Joel Sternfeld, Lynn Gumpert, Dale Jamieson and Chris Wiley, NYU Grey Art Gallery, Hall Art Foundation and Hirmer Publishers, Munich, 2018 Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, ISBN 978-3-7774-2989-2 Search this book on .[16]
- Moukhtar Kocache and Erin Shirreff, New York, 2004 Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artist Residency 1997–2001, ISBN 0-9726973-1-4 Search this book on .
- Regine Basha, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011 An exchange with Sol LeWitt, ISBN 978-1-932698-52-7 Search this book on .
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Exhibitions". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
- ↑ Gute, Charles (October 2002). "Focus Painting Part One – Contemporary Painting Today". Flash Art (226).
- ↑ "Landscapes after Ruskin – Redefining the Sublime". Grey Art Gallery. NYU.
- ↑ Kocache, Moukhtar (2004). Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artist Residency 1997–2001. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-9726973-1-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Basha, Regine. An Exchange with Sol Lewitt. MASS MoCA. p. 8. ISBN 9781932698527. Search this book on
- ↑ "Lucky Draw". SculptureCenter.org. SculptureCenter.
- ↑ Kimmelman, Michael (21 February 2003). "Matisse Picasso". The New York Times.
- ↑ Shirreff, Erin (2004). Site Matters. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. p. 268. ISBN 0-9726973-1-4. Search this book on
- ↑ Rothkopf, Scott (6 November 2012). Wade Guyton OS. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 46. ISBN 978-0300185324. Search this book on
- ↑ Firstenberg, Lauri (2002). Painting as Paradox. New York: Artist's Space. Search this book on
- ↑ Ellegood, Anne (2002). "The Meaning of Style". Brooklyn Front Gallery.
- ↑ Park, Jennifer (2001). "Simon Aldridge". Substancezine.
- ↑ "Simon Aldridge wins RIBA". Building Design Magazine. 15 December 1995.
- ↑ "Reverberations; Losing a Studio, but Not a Calling". The New York Times. 30 September 2001. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ↑ "CNNPentagon Memorial". CNN. 2002.
- ↑ "Book – Catalogue – Redefining the Sublime". hirmerverlag.de. Hirmer Publishing.
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