About
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Simon Ingram
b. 1971, Wellington, New Zealand
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Broadly speaking Simon Ingram's project is an inquiry into the conversation between art and contemporary technology. More specifically, it develops the modernist notion of the autonomous, self-made artwork in relation to painting. Ingram has exhibited locally and internationally for over ten years and is a Senior Lecturer at Elam School of Fine Art. His work is held in key New Zealand collections such as those of Jenny Gibbs, Glenn Schaeffer and the Chartwell and Fletcher Trusts. Recently he was awarded a University of Auckland Best Doctoral Thesis Award, a Creative New Zealand New Work Grant and a Francis Hodgkins Fellowship.
Highlights of his career include work featured in Minus Space P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center - MoMA affiliate in Long Island City, New York; Just Painting at Auckland Art Gallery (2007); Four Times Painting at Victoria University of Wellington's Adam Art Gallery (2007); The Secret Life of Paint at Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2207); PX: A Purposeless Production/A Necessary Praxis at St Paul Street Gallery (2007), My Eyes Keep me in Trouble at The Physics Room (2008) ; Yo Yo Modernism at CCNOA center for contemporary non-objective art in Brussels (2008).
Education
2006 DocFA, University of Auckland, New Zealand
1999 Masters in Visual Arts, Sydney College of Art, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Certificate in Information Technology, Sydney TAFE, Sydney, Australia
1995 Post Graduate Diploma, University of Western Sydney, Australia
1992 BA Fine Art, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Radio Painting, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2009 Boing Boom Tschak, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Simon Ingram, Centre for Contemporary non-objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Simon Ingram - Drawing for an autopoietical painting: Monochrome in C (2005) with Monochrome in K, A Centre for Art, Level 3, Rm 5 Achilles House.
2006 Matter Thinks, SnowWhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand.
Reading Room, Jackson Mac Low Interview With a Painting. Rm103, Auckland, New Zealand.
2005 Painting as Machine, George Fraser Gallery. The University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand.
Drawing Machine, Clubs Project Space. Melbourne, Australia.
Drawing Machine, Canary Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.
Garden, Vavasour Godkin Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.
2004 Painting as Machine, Auckland, Te Tuhi - The Mark. Curated by Rhoda Fowler. Auckland, New Zealand.
Towards a Painting That Thinks, MOP Projects. Curated by Billy Gruner, Ron and George Adams. Sydney, Australia.
2003 Dialogical Paintings, Rm103. Curated by Nick Spratt. Auckland, New Zealand.
Simon Ingram - MOP Projects, Curated by Billy Gruner, Ron and George Adams. Sydney, Australia.
Space paintings, Vavasour Godkin Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.
2001 Lines, Vavasour Godkin Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.
AEIOU, Published Art Bookshop. Curated by Sharon Tredennick. Sydney, Australia.
1999 Informational Space, Vavasour Godkin Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.
Simon Ingram, Gallery South. Curated by Gallery South board. Sydney, Australia.
1998 Studio show, 18th Street Santa Monica. Santa Monica, California, USA.
1997 Industrial Watercolours, Vavasour Godkin Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.
Information Paintings, CBD Gallery. Curated by CBD Gallery board. Sydney, Australia.
1996 Instrumental, Vavasour Godkin Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand.
Paintings With Rules, CBD Gallery. Curated by CBD Gallery board. Sydney, Australia.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Driven to Abstraction, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
The Last Group Show: Dashper, Gardiner, Ingram, Nixon, SNO67, Sydney, Australia
Simon Ingram / Doug Melini, The Suburban, Illinois, USA
2010 TAG: James Cousins and Simon Ingram, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2009 With Your Eyes Only, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria and Brussels.
Frieze, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
John Leech and Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue Exhibition 2009, Gow Langsford Gallery Auckland
2008 Yo Mo Modernism, CCNOA - center for contemporary non-objective art, Brussels, Belgium
Clock the Ton, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Minus Space - Curated by Phong Bui, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA Long Island City, NY
Non-objective art and concrete-constructive works Gesellschaft fr Kunst und Gestaltung e.V., Bonn (gkg)
Julian Dashper - 1994, 2001, 2008, Simon Ingram - 1996, 2002, 2008, Salvatore Panatteri - 1998, 2003, 2008. Newcall Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
My Eyes Keep me in Trouble - Curated by Tillman. The Physics Room - A contemporary art project space in Christchurch. Christchurch, New Zealand
2007 A Greater Purpose -Curated by Anouska Akel, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Four Times Painting - Curated by Tina Barton. Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington
The Secret Life of Painting - Curated by Justin Paton, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand. University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Julian Dashper, Billy Gruner, Simon Ingram, John Nixon - Curated by Sydney Non Objective (SNO), Sydney, Australia
A Purposeless Production/A Necessary Praxis - Curated by Leonhard Emmerling. St Paul st Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 Just Painting - Curated by Natasha Conland, curator Contemporary Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Satellite - Curated by John Di Stefano. Shanghai, China
The Future of Painting - Curated by Ben Curnow. Canary Gallery, Auckland
Four Nails - St Paul street Gallery, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand. Curated by Mary Louise Brown, Julian Dashper and Simon Ingram
2005 Snake Oil - Chartwell Acquisitions. Curated by Robert Leonard. Auckland Art Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand
2004 Seeds of Order - Chaos of Rhythms. Curated by Allan Smith. Anna Bibby Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand
New New Zealand Art - Curated by Ben Curnow. MOP Projects. Sydney, Australia
Duets - Launch of the Abandoned Sculpture Project. Curated by Lauren Winstone. RAMP Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
2003 From the Shadows to the Sun - Curated by Ben Curnow. Rm103. Auckland, New Zealand
Yellow Pages Germany - Curated by John Armleder. Braunschweig, Germany
Images of Desire - Curated by Jan van der Ploeg. Artwalk, Staatsliedenbuurt district. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Portraiture - The Art of Social Commentary - Curated by Rhoda Fowler. Te Tui-The Mark. Manukau City, New Zealand
Group Show - Curated by Billy Gruner, Ron and George Adams. MOP Projects. Sydney, Australia
2002 Images of Desire - Curated by Jan van der Ploeg, Artwalk, Staatsliedenbuurt district. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Group show - Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 False Narratives - Curated by Ruark Lewis. Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide, Australia), City Art Gallery (Wollongong, Australia), RMIT Gallery (Melbourne, Australia)
Saturated Skins Vavasour Godkin Gallery -Curated by Bill Riley and Noel Ivanoff. Auckland, New Zealand
Actually, Rubyayre Gallery. Curated by Simon Ingram, Jason Markou and Jeorg Hubmann. Sydney, Australia
1998 Screen Show, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Jim Speers & Simon Ingram - Curated by CBD Gallery board, CBD Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997 Toby Curnow & Simon Ingram, Pendulum Gallery - Curated by Pendulum Gallery board. Sydney, Australia
1996 CBD benefit show, CBD Gallery, Group exhibition curated by CBD Gallery board, Sydney, Australia
1995 Debut Exhibition - Curated by Toby Curnow, Inhouse Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
A Very Peculiar Practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting -Curated by Allan Smith, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Selected Biography
Conland, N. (2007) Four Times Painting, Edited by Christina Barton. Published by The Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington. Wellington, New Zealand
Di Stephano. J and the Satellite curatorial board, (2006). Shanghai, China
Laird, T. (2005) New Zealand Listener, April 14 - 28. Auckland, New Zealand
Gifford, A. (2005) Magic of the Machinesm The New Zealand Herald, Weds March 30. Auckland, New Zealand
Smith, A. and S. Ingram. (2004), Towards a Painting That Thinks, Manukau City, ArtSchool Press, Manukau Insitute of Technology. ISBN 0-476-00671-6. Auckland, New Zealand
Fowler, R. (2003) Portraiture, The Art Of Social Commentary, Te Tui-the Mark. Manukau City, New Zealand
McNamara, T.J. (2003) Dynamic variations of simple patterns, NZ Herald, Auckland, New Zealand
Green, T. (2001) Lines, PostWest Magazine. University of Western Sydney. Edited by Ben Genocchio. Sydney, Australia.
Smith, A. (2000) Informational Space. Like Art Magazine, RMIT, Edited by Robin McKenzie, Melbourne, Australia
Green, T. (1998) Industrial Watercolours, The Physics Room website (http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/) Edited by Tessa Laird, Christchurch, New Zealand
Smith, A. (1997) New Zealand Modernism, The Content of Form - Paintings From the Gibbs Collection, Edited by James Ross, Auckland, New Zealand
Smith, A and Davis, L. (1995) A Very Peculiar Practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, Wellington, City Gallery, ISBN 0-908818-31-9
Selected Bibliography
Ingram. S. (2008) Conference presentation and contribution to proceedings. Tipping paintings verticality on its side, In the The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne
Ingram. S. (2006) Short monograph. The Value of Andy Barbers No Collar Abstraction, New Artist Show, Artspace, Auckland.
Ingram, S. (2006) Short monograph. Milan Habers Deep Drawing, SnowWhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland.
Ingram, S. (2006) Conference presentation and contribution to proceedings, Painting as a Thinking Machine. In the conference workshop Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence for Beauty and Happiness, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston
Ingram, S. (2006) Short monograph. Simon Dennys Bright Lumpen Object Sentences. Catalogue essay for forthcoming publication at Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Ingram, S. (2005) Essay/interview, Ingram Interviews Armanious: The Potting Shed Cosmologist. Natural Selection, Edited by Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps, Auckland, New Zealand
Ingram, S. (2005) Conference presentation and contribution to proceedings, Painting Life: Automata in Painting and A-life, International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ingram, S. (2004) Artist portfolio, "Dialogical Paintings." Landfall (207): 128-137. ISSN 00-23-7930. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ingram, S. (2004) Journal article, "Machinic Practice in Painting." Junctures - The Journal for Thematic Dialogue 2(2): 33-44. ISSN 1-877139-65-3. Otago Polytech, Dunedin, New Zealand
Ingram, S. (2004) Full conference paper. Materialist practice in painting and self organising systems. Processing Novelty. Intermedia and Time Based Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand.
Ingram, S. (2002) Artist portfolio, Spirit Level Drawing, Probe Magazine, Edited by Gywn Porter, Manukau Institute of Technology, Manukau City, New Zealand
Ingram, S. (2002) Short monograph, Fusinatos Kinaesthetic Monochromes, Exhibition catalogue, Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, Edited by Robin Stoney, Auckland, New Zealand
Ingram, S. (2002) Short monograph, Jan Van der Ploeg, Lives of the Artists, Edited by Elizabeth Pulie, Sydney, Australia
Ingram, S. (2002) Article, Jim Speers, Illusions, Edited by Lawrence McDonald. Wellington, New Zealand.
Ingram, S. (2002) Short monograph, Maddie Leach's Ice Rink and Lilac Ship, Haiku review (#1 spring 2002) published by Carnival Askew, Sydney, Australia
Ingram, S. (2000) 3 Short monographs, Andreas Gursky, Gerhard Richter, Rosalie Gascoigne, Biennale of Sydney Education Kit (3 essays) Edited by Craig Judd, Sydney, Australia
Ingram, S. (2000) Article, Doug Aitken and Pippilotti Rist, Postwest, University of Western Sydney, Article, Edited by Ben Genocchio, Sydney, Australia
Ingram, S. (2000) Article, Mimi Tong, Like Art Magazine, RMIT, Edited by Robin McKenzie, Melbourne, Australia
Ingram, S. (1999) Artist portfolio, Magazine cover image, and Review of Los Angeles Studio residency. Postwest, University of Western Sydney. Edited by Ben Genocchio. Sydney, Australia.
Ingram, S. (1998) Artist portfolio, Lay Bare the device, Material, Edited by John Nixon, Sydney, Australia
Ingram, S. (1994) Article, Walters Double Bind, Post, Art History Department, The University of Auckland, Edited by Caleb Stuart Auckland, New Zealand