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Born Dorset, 1940 of Anglo Russian parents.
Lives in Wiltshire
Education
1958-60 Bournemouth College of Art
1960-63 Royal College of Art, London
Solo Exhibitions
1964
Piccadilly Gallery, London – Recent Paintings
1968
Piccadilly Gallery, London – Paintings and Drawings
1968
University of Sussex – Paintings
1972
Piccadilly Gallery, London – Recent Paintings
1973
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery – Six large paintings
1983
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol – Paintings 1980-1983
1985
Serpentine Gallery, London – Recent Paintings
1996
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and Oriel 31, Newtown – Bench Paintings 1992-1995
2005
The Tithe Barn, Bradford on Avon and The Old Gasworks, An Installation, Hymn- Psalm-Song-Prayer Bench Paintings
2007
David Risley Gallery, London Bench Paintings Recent Work 2005 - 2006
2008
Volta New York, September 2008, Bench Paintings and works on paper
2013
The Leper Squint Paintings 2012 - 13
March - May
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
Selected Group Exhibitions
1959
Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1959
Painting from English Art Schools, Paris 1959-62 Young Contemporaries, London
1960
University of London Exhibition. First Prize
1961 Arts Council Travelling Exhibition[new purchases]
1963
The London Group 1963 ‘Contemporary Image’, Upper Grosvenor Gallery, London
1964
Three Young Painters from The Royal College of Art, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1964
Arts Council Touring Exhibition [new acquisitions 1961-64]
1968
Ten English Art Galleries, Florence
1968
‘Art for Industry’, Royal College of Art, London
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Open, Belfast. Joint First Prize
1971
John Player Open, Nottingham
1975
Chichester National Open
1977
Tolly Cobbald Open, Cambridge. Fitzwilliam Museum. Joint First Prize
On Tour. Sheffield, Ipswich, London
1982
Hayward Gallery, London. British Drawing
1987
Serpentine Gallery, London. ‘On a Plate’.
1989 John Moores 16, Liverpool
1991
John Moores 17, Liverpool. Prize Winner
1993
John Moores 18, Liverpool
1998
East International, Norwich
1999
‘On the Threshold’, Octagon Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2000
Jerwood Open Drawing Exhibition. Touring to Hull and Kunsthalle Sierre, Switzerland
2005
‘Accidental Death’, David Risley Gallery, London
‘Crivelli’s Nail’ Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
2006
Armory New York , David Risley Gallery, London
2007
‘Citadel 1: Front Room/Killing Room’ David Risley Gallery, London
2009
'The Paper Show' David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2013
February - April
The Debris of the Fuck drawings 1970 - 74
Kunst Als Forschung
Serge Stauffer
Helm Haus, Zurich
Publications
1960
William van der Eyken. ‘London University Exhibition’.
London Evening Standard, April 16
1968
John Russell. ‘Michael Simpson’. Sunday Times, April
1968
Marina Vaizey, ‘Michael Simpson’. Arts News and Review, April
Norbert Lynton, ‘Michael Simpson’. The Guardian, April
Donald Blady. ‘Michael Simpson’. New York Herald Tribune, April
Anon … ‘Michael Simpson’. Financial Times, April
1975
Teresa Gleadow. ‘Michael Simpson’. Southern Arts, April
1982
Francis Spalding, The Hayward Annual. Times Literary Supplement, August
1984
Ken Rowat. ‘Michael Simpson Arnolfini’. The Guardian, January
Edward Phelps. ‘Michael Simpson, Arnolfini Gallery’. Arts Review, January
Anne Sheldon. ‘Michael Simpson Paintings 1980-83’. Venue, January
Lewis Biggs. ‘Michael Simpson Paintings 1980-83’ The Arnolfini Review, January
1985
Nigel Pollitt. ‘Michael Simpson at the Serpentine’. City Limits, August
1992
Richard Kendall. ‘The State of the Art’. Apollo Magazine. John Moores 17, January
1996
John McEwan. ‘Michael Simpson, Bench Paintings’. Sunday Telegraph, 21 January
John Tozer. ‘Michael Simpson’. Galleries, January
Tony Godfrey ‘Unnamed Paintings’ Catalogue Essay
Bench Paintings 1992-1995 Arnolfini Gallery and Oriel 31, 1996
2005
Hymn-Psalm-Song-Prayer - Bench Paintings. The Tithe Barn & The Old Gasworks Bradford on Avon Wiltshire. September 2005. Arts Council Publication. Bound 12 Full colour reproductions with text by the artist.
2007
Jessica Lack .Michael Simpson Recent Paintings .David Risley Gallery.
The Guardian 27th January 2007
Meredith Etherington-Smith.Michael Simpson Bench Paintings.”Letter from London”.Art Info 6thFebruary
Mark Rappolt ‘Future Greats, Twenty-five Artists to look out for in 2007, Art Review
Barry Schwabsky, “Michael Simpson, David Risley Gallery’ Art Forum April 2007.
Roderick Harris 'To think is to speculate with images', Turps Banana, Issue Three, July 2007
2009
Barry Schwabsky. A catalogue essay 'Michael Simpson's Bench Painting's, a selection 1989-2009. U R A Gallery, Istanbul October-December 2009.
Awards
1960 University of London Exhibition, First Prize
1963 British Council Scholarship to the USSR
1968 Northern Ireland Arts Council Open, Belfast, Joint First Prize
1975 Major Award, Southern Arts Council
1976 Major Award. Arts Council of Great Britain
1977 Tolly Cobbald Open, Cambridge, Joint First Prize
1991 John Moores 17. Prize Winner
1999 Winner of the London Arts Foundation Fellowship in Painting
2000 Nominated for the ‘Becks Futures’ ICA, London
2001 Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Awards, London
Collections
Arts Council, England
Stuyvesant Foundation
Control Techniques, The Arup Building
Arts Council, Northern Ireland
University of Oxford
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Carlisle Art Gallery and MuseumUlster Museum and Art Gallery, Belfast
Camden Borough Council, London
Southern Arts Association
And various private collections