Simeon Barclay
b.1975, Huddersfield, UK
Lives and works
Selected Solo Shows
2023
- At Home Everywhere and Nowhere, Gathering, London, UK
- At Home Everywhere and Nowhere, Workplace, London, UK
2022
- In the Name of the Father, South London Gallery, London, UK
- Whose Voice? Hard to Reach! Touchstones, Rochdale, UK
2021
- England’s Lost Camelot, Workplace Gallery, London, UK
2020
- Bus2move, The Turnpike, Leigh, UK
2019
- Bus2move, Workplace Foundation, Gateshead, UK
- Liferoom, The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, Manchester, UK
2018
- Bus2move, The Tetley, Leeds, UK
2018
- Art Now: Simeon Barclay, The Hero Wears Clay Shoes, Tate Britain, London, UK
2018
- They Don't Like It Up 'Em', Cubitt, London, UK
2018
- Where Did It All Go Wrong, Dam Projects, London, UK
- Mans Not Ready, Set the Controls for the Heart of The Sun, Leeds, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
- Sculpture in the City, 12th Edition, London, UK
- Poor Things, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, UK
- Chester Contemporary, Chester, UK
- Decoy, Workplace Foundation, Newcastle, UK
2022
- NADA Miami, Workplace, Miami, FL
- Cubitt 30, Victoria Miro, London, UK
- Kaleidoscope, Workplace, London, UK
- Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon, Marlborough, London, UK
- British Art Show 9, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2021
- BOLD BLACK BRITISH, Christie’s, London, UK
- Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London, UK
- Flatwork, Solid Haus, Woodbridge, UK
- British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK
- British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
- In the Castle of My Skin, MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK
2020
- Paint the Town in Sound, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, UK
- Winter Light, Southbank centre, London, UK
2019
- Survey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
- Futbolka, Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, WAL
- Survey, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
- Survey, G39, Cardiff, AL
2018
- Survey, Jerwood Space, Jerwood Visual Arts, London, UK
- Knock Knock, South London Gallery, London, UK
- Common Third, Copperfield Gallery, London, UK
- It's Not There till It’s There, (joint show with Hannah Perry) Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, CH
- We Are Where We Are, Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK
- Repeats (Figures and Infrastructures), Sixty-Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen, DK
2017
- Exit, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE
- Houses Are Really Bodies, Cubitt, London, UK
- On Longing, Arcadia Missa, New York, NY
- Wagstaff s, Mostyn, Llandudno, WAL
2016
- Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
- General Studies, Outpost, Norwich, UK
- Opensource Art Festival, Dalston, London, UK
- Playing by The Rules, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
2015
- A British Art Show, Meyhoas, New York, NY
- The Feast Wagon, The Tetley, Leeds, UK
- True Players, W139, Amsterdam, NL
- You think the only people who are people, are the people who look like you but if you walk in the footsteps of a stranger, you learn things you never knew you never knew, Two Queens, Leicester, UK
2014
- MFA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, UK
2013
- Wu Tang Killa Beez, BlipBlipBlip, Leeds, UK
- Tomorrow or Today, Soscastoa, Gent, BE
- Tomorrow or Today, Mexico Project Space, Leeds, UK
- Contemporary Figuration, Gallery Q, Copenhagen, DK
2012
- Beaten Black, Blue, Red, Green & Gold, Cardiff, WAL
- Glamourie, Project Space Leeds, Leeds, UK
2011
- Final Show Postgraduate Diploma, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
- Lives and Works, Limazulu, London, UK
- My Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
2010
- Plaza Principle, Leeds Plaza, Leeds, UK
- One of Those Platonic Solids Existing Somewhere Out in The Ether of a World Of ideal Form, Enjoy, Unit 22c, Mabgate, Leeds, UK
- Graduate Show, Bloc Project, Sheffield, UK
- Watchamacalit, The One Offs Project, Leeds, UK
- Fine Rat, Leeds Metropolitan Fine Art Degree Show, Leeds, UK
- Collection Continued. ..The Private Gallery of Rachel Carter and Harry Meadley, Leeds,UK
Residencies & Awards
2022
- Ares, Mosaic Art Award, London, UK
- Deutche Bank Commission
2021
- Appointed to the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee
- Art Fund Commission, British Art Show 9
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists
2020
- Henry Moore Foundation Award Scheme
2019
- Artist Fellow, University of Cambridge, Girton College, UK
2018
- Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant
- Phoenix Dance Theatre Residency, Leeds, UK
- The Bryan Robertson Trust Award
2016
- Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists Programme
2015
- Forecourt Commission, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
- Master Class, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Press & Publications
2023
- Fad Magazine, At Home Everywhere and Nowhere, Mark Westall
- Elephant, The Very Best of London's Frieze Week: Outside the Tent, Gilda Bruno
- Third Text, British Art show 9, Pauline De Souza
- Time Out, Time Out’s Alternative Turner Prize Shortlist, Eddie Frankel
2022
- The Art Newspaper, Six Shows to see in London during UK Black History Month, Chimma Johnson Nwosu
- Frieze, The Best Shows to See in London During Frieze, Alice Bucknell In Critic's Guides, Reviews
- Evening Standard, The best free exhibitions in London right now, Elizabeth Gregory
- Wallpaper, two south London Gallery shows explore selfhood and subcultures, Martha Elliott
- Art Monthly, In the Name of the Father, Amie Corry # 461
- Time Out, Simeon Barclay: In the Name of the Father, Eddy Frankel
- Financial Times, British Art Show 9 finds healing in troubled times, Rachel Spence
2021
- Artnet News, 9 Gallery shows to see in London during Frieze Week. Naomi Rea
- The Art Newspaper, How the Beano encouraged generations of artists to break e rules, José da Silva
- Burlington Contemporary, Simeon Barclay’s England’s Lost Camelot, Alex Hull
- The Face, Simeon Barclay on exclusion, Black mythology and Britain’s past, TJ Sidhu
- Something Curated,Interview: Simeon Barclay on Bonding Experiences, Comics & Growing Up Black in Britain
- Time Out, September is full of amazing exhibitions, Eddie Frankel
- Commemorative Space, Artist Reflections on Monumentality in Leeds, edited by Dr Rebecca Senior
- Frieze, A New Regionalism, Amy Sherlock
- Art Monthly, Don't Look Back in Anger, Morgan Quaintance #443
2020
- OOF, Boy’s Own, The Art and Football Magazine #6
- Corridor 8, Bus2Move, Isabel Taube
2019
- Corridor 8, Liferoom, Jazmine Linklater
- Corridor 8, Bus2Move, Laura Clarke
- The White Pube, Bus2Move, Gabrielle de la Puente
- The Yorkshire Post, Bus2move, Yvette Huddleston
- Poetic Dissonance, Girton College, University of Cambridge
2018
- ID Magazine, The Radical Issue #351
- Cura, Hot! Frances Loeffler, #26
- Artworks London, Lauren Velvick
- Art Monthly, Tom Emery, #403
2017
- Evening Standard, The Hero Wears Clay Shoes, Ben Luke
2016
- Artforum, Critic's Picks, Philomena Epps
2015
- Art Monthly, Feast Wagon, Tom Emery, # 392
- Corridor 8, Feast Wagon, Lara Eggleton
- Corridor 8, Mans Not Ready, Hatty Nestor
- CVAN, A Jolly Lament in Four Movements Concerning A Hamlet by The Sea, ack Welsh (review)
- Times Education Supplement, Lost and Found: Echoes of Britain's Black Voices, Alan Rice
- The Catlin Guide, edited by Justin Hammonds
Collections
- Arts Council Collection
- Manchester Art Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery collection, Manchester
- Government Art Collection
- Girton College Collection, University of Cambridge
- Zabludowicz Collection
- Huddersfield Art Gallery Collection