Simon Martin (artist)

Simon Martin (born 1965) is a British artist living and working in London. Martin is known for his video works.^[1][2][3]

Martin was born in Cheshire, England in 1965.^[4][5] He attended the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, between 1985 and 1989.^[6]

In 2005 Martin showed his video work Wednesday Afternoon in solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York City, Counter Gallery, London^[7] and The Power Plant, Toronto.^[8] Reviewing the New York exhibition in the New York Times, Roberta Smith called the work a "a minor masterpiece of poetic discretion".^[9] In 2011, his film Louis Ghost Chair, commissioned by the British organization Film and Video Umbrella, premiered at the Holbourne Museum in Bath, UK.^[10][11][12] His film Lemon 03 Generations (Turn it Around version) was presented as an outdoor projection by the Henry Moore museum in December 2014.^[13][14] In 2015 he presented his film UR Feeling in a solo show at the Camden Arts Centre.^[1][15][16] Known until this point for his films that used portrayed only static objects,^[17] UR Feeling was his first work to use human performers.^[18]

He was included in the 2006 Tate Triennial.^[19][20]

In 2008 he received the £45,000 Paul Hamlyn Foundation visual arts award.^[21][22]

Since 2005 he has worked with sound.

Martin's work is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art^[23] and the Tate Museum, London.^[19]

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