Born Croydon 1963. Lives and works in London.

EDUCATION

1991-1993        Goldsmiths College, London                       
1983-86            St Martins School of Art, London

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
The Painter and the Hole, MOT International, London
Asphalt World, Studio Voltaire, London

2007
The Receivers, MOT International, London
The Furnishers, White Room, White Columns, New York

2006
The Researchers, Byam Shaw School of Art gallery, London

2005
The Adverts, Rental, Los Angeles
Gents: A Melodrama with 2 Acts, Platform, London
Simon Bedwell, Ritter/Zamet, London

2004
Advertising Doesn’t Tell Anyone Anything Anyway. Piccadilly Circus Underground station concourse, Platform for Art, London

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2010
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Roth, New York
La Belle Dame Sans Merci Vagas Gallery. London

2008
Other People’s Projects, White Columns, New York

2007
Last Of the Urgents, Colony Gallery, Birmingham
Second Life, Portman Gallery, London
Oliver Twist, Rental, New York

2006
Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Bring the War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles
I am The Fly Franc-Paca, Marseilles
Pimps and Hookers 1000000mph, London
Simon/Sarah, Platform, London
Right on/Write Off, Chapman Fine ARTS, London

2005
Paintings without Painters, Painters without Paintings, Orchard, New York
England Their England, Laden Fur Nicht, Leipzig
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
Brit Povera, Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Shouting At The Television, (interview with Mustafa Halusi) online project

2004
Galleon and Other Stories, Saatchi Gallery, London
Bech Futures 5, ICA, London and CCA, Glasgow
Grate Britain, Cell, London
Slimvolume 5, Redux, London
The Sound Of The Crowd, Ritter/Zamet, London
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Colin Perry, Simon Bedwell, Frieze, issue 122, April

2007
Andrew Hunt, Simon Bedwell, John Russell, Art Monthly June
Dean Kenning You Cannot be Serious: Art Politics Idiocy Art Monthly June
Richard Dorment, On Seas of Unreality, Daily Telegraph, 8 May

2006
Andrew Hunt, Right-On Write-Off, Art Monthly, September
Holland Cotter, The Art is Sharp, the Categories Blurry, New York Times, 16 Aug
Platform 1998 – 2006, ed. Sheila Lawson, published by Platform
Merrily Kerr, Bring the War Home, Art on Paper, July/August
Dan Fox, Poison Pen, Frieze, Summer 2006
Roberta Smith Who Needs a White Cube These Days? New York Times 13 Jan

2005
AA Gill et al, Art’s New Champions, Sunday Times magazine cover story, 9 Jan

2004
Richard Dorment, The fakes that reveal reality, Daily Telegraph 14 July
Nick Hackworth, Still making waves, Evening Standard, 6 July
Jen Thatcher, Ad-man you’re a not-so-bad man (interview), The Future, Summer
Alisdair X, Beck’s Futures, Sleaze, April
Jonathan Jones, Saatchi all at sea, Guardian, 3 July
Iain Gale, Going back to the futures, Scotland on Sunday, 27 June
John Hardy, Contemporary Art, Glasgow, The Burlington Magazine, June
Duncan Macmillan, Big screen – but very small ideas, The Scotman, 10 June
Emmanual Cooper, Blend it like Becks, Tribune, 14 May
Gilda Williams, The Sound of the Crowd, Art Monthly, May
Morgan Falconer, The Sound of the Crowd, What’s On, 15-21 April
Huw Lewis-Jones, Beck’s Futures, Varsity, 30 April
Helen Sumpter, Beck’s Futures 2004, The Big Issue, 12 April
Tim Cornwell, Artistic bunch in need of Becks appeal, The Scotsman, 24 March
Len Horsey, Simon Bedwell, Flux magazine, March
Andrew Renton, Beck’s still has a future, Evening Standard, 23 March
Mark Sladen, Buried Treasures, Art Review, December/January
Martin Gayford, Dust, fluff and Cilla, Daily Telegraph, 31 March
Adrian Searle, Full steam ahead, The Guardian, 30 March
Sue Hubbard, Allure isn’t all that bright, The Independant Review, 29 March
Waldemar Januszczak, Beck’s Futures, Sunday Times Culture Supplement, 28 March
Oliver Bennett, Is it really art? Yes, actually, Observer Review, 28 March
Charles Darwent, Bananas and fluff: it’s the (Beck’s) future, Sunday Independant, 28 March
Rod Liddle, Tosh and Beck’s, The Times, 27 March
Moira Jeffrey, Space is the artistic frontier, Glasgow Herald, 26 March