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b-1979, Hannover, Germany.  Lives and works in London.

 

2023 - MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London.

2017 - BA Painting. Camberwell College of the arts, UAL, London.

​2023

RCA2023 at Truman Brewery, London.

2022

hARTslane Gallery - Memento Mori, London.

Palazzo Ducale - 'Memento Mori', PASSAGGI Atina art residency, Atina FR, Italy.

Battersea Park - temporary Royal College of Art MA public sculpture collaboration 'Memorial for a Memorial', London.

St. Johns Sculpture Garden -'Catch Your Breath' with The London Group and invited artists. St Johns Churchyard, Waterloo, London.

Stash Gallery - Members group show, London.

hARTslane - VESTIGES, remnants of things departed. SCULPTURE by Ali Darke + C J Simpson, London.

Royal College of Art - WIP Show 22, London.

2021

Barking and Dagenham art trail, London.

Hundred Years Gallery - After the Deluge., London.

Hundred years Gallery - The Plague, London.

2020

IG11&RM10 Art Trail - Barking, London.

hARTslane gallery - PASSAGGI Atina in London.

​2019

Barking Art Trail - Studio3Arts, London.

V&A Lates White Post - This Must Be the Place, Hackney, London.

QPARK Leicester Square - Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad. London.

hARTslane gallery - Love Family story: Intimate tales in Art. London.

​2018

hARTslane gallery - PASSAGGIATINA 2018. London.

QPARK Cavendish Square - Protocol. London.

Palazzo Ducale - PASSAGGIATINA 2018. Atina (Fr), Italy.

Waterloo Festival - Nothing Endures but Change. The London Group and friends. St John Churchyard, Waterloo, London.

QPARK Chinatown - 'Embracing the Underdog!', London.

​2017

Camberwell Space - The Reunion. Camberwell College of Arts, London.

QPARK Cavendish Square - THE CRASH. London.

Griffin Gallery - The fine art collective. London.

Assembly Point Gallery - Kalms. London.

QPARK Chinatown - Chinese Open. London. 

​2016

The Black and White Building - Revolution. London.

Raum Gallery - Painting? London

Art Car boot Fair, Brick Lane Yard, London.

The Black and White Building - B + W Art Society Soho in collaboration with Creative Debuts. London.

The Meeting Rooms - Art Jam/SOLO Projects. Neals Yard, Covent Garden, London

CGP Gallery - UNIT interim show. London.

Asylum Gallery - Homunculus. London.

​2015

Espaciogallery - Flesh. London

Palazzo Ducale - Atina Art Residency. Atina (Fr), Italy.

Tower Gallery - Long Live the New Flesh! London.

Embassy Tea Gallery - Capsule. London.

QPARK Chinatown - Chinese Open. London.

​2014

Let Art Work Gallery - God Show. Pune, India.

Tower Gallery - Breaking the Chains. London.

Espaciogallery - Flesh. London.

QPARK Chinatown - Chinese Open. London.

RESIDENCIES

2022 Passaggi Atina art residency, Atina, Italy.

2019 PASSAGGIATINA, Atina, Italy.

2018 PASSAGGIATINA, Atina, Italy.

2017 PASSAGGIATINA, Atina, Italy.

2017 Griffin Gallery. London. https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/camberwell-college-of-arts/stories/insert-name-christopher-simpson-a-recipient-of-one-of-the-griffin-gallery-residencies

2015 Atina art residency, Atina, Italy. 

 

AWARDS

2023 RCA Materials Fund.

2015 The Charlotte and Dennis Stevenson Award.

2014 Lowes Dickinson Award. 

 

PUBLICATIONS

2018 'I am not famous because I am not dead!' Catalogue of emerging artists, Artistank.

2018 Degree Show Catalogue, 2017. Camberwell Press. ISBN 978-1-908971-57-9.

2015 ‘I am not famous because I am not dead!’ Catalogue of emerging artists, Artistank. 

PRESS

Artribune Itlay - PassaggiAtina. The residency for do it yourself artists in Lazio

PassaggiAtina. the Do It Yourself Art Residency in Lazio. March 2023. Artribune, Italy. https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/arte-contemporanea/2023/03/residenza-atina-frosinone/

Autumn 2020 Barking is where the art is for Chris. Edition 3, The Gascoigne Gazette. https://yourcall.befirst.london/2351/widgets/7850/documents/7185

20/06/20 Sculpting time - Chris Simpson. The Sunday Tribune online. https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2020/06/20/sculpting-time-chris-simpson/?fbclid=IwAR0hSQ2-BBcR9LFiecuM0kujDExb8cbiwnn49BNhpHlvZ6lK8gM7QRwCyew

18/08/19 Rough Passage. The Sunday Tribune https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2019/08/18/a-short-interview-with-writer-emma-roper-evans/

24/01/18 Love, story, Family - Intimate tales in art. The Sunday Tribune.  https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2019/01/24/love-story-family-intimate-tales-in-art/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=XMa0KlwKaXw&feature=emb_logo

22/07/17 Chris Simpson on Cloth, statues and the Italian art residency. The News Agents. Resonance FM. https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-22nd-july-2017/

23/09/17 Art in the Apennines. The News Agents. Resonance FM. https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-23rd-september-2017/

 

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