Simon Lee Gallery was founded in 2002 in Mayfair, London. It represents artists of diverse generations from Europe and the USA, whose practices range from sculpture and painting to video and photography, sharing a broad interest in an exploration of the conceptual.
Read MoreAiming to provide a significant British and international audience to its artists, the gallery also regularly punctuates its programme with historical exhibitions and curated group shows. This gives us the opportunity to present shifts in contemporary art practice and thought, whilst broadening the dialogue with artists outside of the gallery programme. These projects combined with the gallery programme further the commitment to a discourse on art and culture in the London context.
The gallery publishes catalogues and artist monographs and collaborates with museums and other commercial galleries to give its artists exposure outside London and provide them a rigorous context to be viewed.
In addition to its UK activity, the gallery has been building a presence in Hong Kong and has now opened a space in the Pedder Building in order to introduce gallery artists to a wider public in Hong Kong and Asia.
Ocula News Art Basel in Hong Kong Bumped to May 2021 Hong Kong, 17 November 2020 The postponement was blamed on the pandemic and ongoing travel restrictions.
Ocula Conversation | In Partnership with Simon Lee Gallery 'We'll see what the hell happens': Jim Shaw on Politics and Pop Culture in the U.S. By Lydia Yee, London Ahead of the U.S. election results, Jim Shaw reflects on the political and pop cultural themes in his paintings.
Ocula Insight Frieze Viewing Room: Ten Advisory Selections By Rory Mitchell, London Ocula Art Advisory highlights ten artworks showing in Frieze Viewing Room.
Ocula Insight | In partnership with Simon Lee Gallery, New York Mai-Thu Perret: Flowers in the Eye By Sherry Paik, New York Mai-Thu Perret introduces new ceramic and tapestry in her solo show Flowers in the Eye at Simon Lee Gallery, New York.
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Related Press Hong Kong pavilion at Venice Biennale closes amid extradition bill protests 11 June 2019, South China Morning Post According to a photo posted on Facebook by Christina Li, guest curator of artist Shirley Tse's exhibition at the pavilion, a notice in English and Italian at the entrance reads: 'Due to unforeseen circumstances, the exhibition Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice will be closed on June 12, 2019. Please excuse us for the inconvenience.'...
Related Press ARGO, ARIN DWIHARTANTO SUNARYO 29 May 2019, Art Asia Pacific Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo has always been an experimental painter. Having set aside the paintbrush in favor of his hands early on in his near-two-decade-long career, and later moving to more industrial methods using tools and resins, he rejected paint altogether in 2008.
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Related Video & Audio Michelangelo Pistoletto 1 March 2018, Simon Lee Gallery Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933, Biella, Italy) is widely recognised as one of the most influential contemporary artists of his generation and a leading proponent of the Arte Povera movement. Since the 1960s his work has followed two profoundly linked paths, a body of conceptual sculpture grounded in the tenets of Arte Povera and an ongoing...
Related Video & Audio Toby Ziegler 18 December 2017, Simon Lee Gallery Toby Ziegler talks material slippage, image approximation and recreating the effects of digital technology across sculpture, painting and film.
Related Video & Audio George Condo The Artist at Work 14 December 2017, Louisiana Channel The mind of American artist George Condo has been referred to as a place where 'Picasso meets Looney Tunes.' Watch him at work in his New York-studio where he draws and paints his take on a 19 th -century painting by Manet.
Related Video & Audio George Condo Interview: The Way I Think 2 November 2017, Louisiana Channel 'I kind of draw like you’re walking through the forest, where you don’t really know where you’re going, and you just start from some point and randomly travel through the paper until you get to a place where you finally reach your destination.' Condo studied music theory at college, but soon realised that it was too formal and rigid for him, and...
