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Simon Aldridge
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Simon Aldridge Artist 2016
Born1974
London, England
🏳️ NationalityBritish
🏫 EducationThe Bartlett and Harvard University
💼 Occupation
Known forConceptual art, installation art, painting
🏅 AwardsRIBA 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]

"Monotype Iteration 24" by Simon Aldridge (2015)

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.

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. 1.0 1.1 "Exhibitions". New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  2. Gute, Charles (October 2002). "Focus Painting Part One – Contemporary Painting Today". Flash Art (226).
  3. "Landscapes after Ruskin – Redefining the Sublime". Grey Art Gallery. NYU.
  4. 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
  5. Basha, Regine. An Exchange with Sol Lewitt. MASS MoCA. p. 8. ISBN 9781932698527. Search this book on
  6. "Lucky Draw". SculptureCenter.org. SculptureCenter.
  7. Kimmelman, Michael (21 February 2003). "Matisse Picasso". The New York Times.
  8. Shirreff, Erin (2004). Site Matters. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. p. 268. ISBN 0-9726973-1-4. Search this book on
  9. Rothkopf, Scott (6 November 2012). Wade Guyton OS. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 46. ISBN 978-0300185324. Search this book on
  10. Firstenberg, Lauri (2002). Painting as Paradox. New York: Artist's Space. Search this book on
  11. Ellegood, Anne (2002). "The Meaning of Style". Brooklyn Front Gallery.
  12. Park, Jennifer (2001). "Simon Aldridge". Substancezine.
  13. "Simon Aldridge wins RIBA". Building Design Magazine. 15 December 1995.
  14. "Reverberations; Losing a Studio, but Not a Calling". The New York Times. 30 September 2001. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  15. "CNNPentagon Memorial". CNN. 2002.
  16. "Book – Catalogue – Redefining the Sublime". hirmerverlag.de. Hirmer Publishing.

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