Simon Casson

curriculum vitae

Education

1994
MA Painting Royal Academy of Art
RA Gold Medal Painting
1990
Postgraduate Diploma Printmaking Central St Martins
Cecil Collins Fine Art Prize
1988
BA 1st Class Fine Art Exeter College of Art and Design CNNA
Jane Hewitt Memorial Prize
Recent and Upcoming Solo Exhibitions

2013
TBC GalerieFlash Munich Germany
Spring Galerie de Bellefeuille Montreal Canada
2012
August "Smeech and Hrain" Forde Abbey Somerset UK
September "Smeech and Hrain" Long & Ryle London UK
2011
March/April "Lupercalia" Anne Reed Gallery Idaho, USA
2010
July/August "Lupercalia" Galerie de Bellefeuille. Montreal, Canada.
March "New paintings from the Lupercalia series" Gebert Gallery,
Scottsdale, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.
2009
September "The Thesmophoria" Frost and Reed Gallery, London, U.K.
2008
October Frost and Reed Gallery, London, U.K.
October Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona USA
July "The Great Daedala" Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
July "Daedala" Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
2007
November "The Great Daedala" Contrasts Gallery, Beijing, China
April "Catalogue of the Iliad" Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
March "Catalogue of the Iliad" Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.
2006
October "Empusae II" Long & Ryle, London, U.K.
April "Empusae I" Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
March "Xanthus of the West Wind" Anne Reed Gallery, Idaho, U.S.A.
February "Malefic Deianeira" Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, U.S.A.
2005
June "Aphrodite's Ceinture III" Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
February "Aphrodite's Ceinture II" Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis U.S.A.
January "Aphrodite's Ceinture I" Bentley Projects, Phoenix, U.S.A.
2004
"Epitome II" Long and Ryle Gallery, London, U.K.
2003
"Epitome" Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.
2002
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.
2001
"Tantalus II" David Bietzel Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2000
"La Ira de Aquiles" Art Box Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
"The Fate Clotho I" Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona U.S.A.
"The Fate Clotho II" Bournemouth Arts Institute Gallery, U.K.
"Tantalus I" Long & Ryle Gallery, London. U.K.
Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 "The Threadneedle Prize" Mall Galleries, London, U.K.
2004 "Young Masters" Exhibition charting the influence
of the Old Masters on Contemporary Art, Art Fortnight,London
2003 "Equine" Anne Reed Gallery, Memphis, U.S.A.
2002 "Contemporary Narrative" Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, U.S.A.
Selected Commissions and Collections.

Shell
Bank of America Trust
Citigroup
CityIndex
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
Lansons Communications
Lehman Brothers
B.C. Partners
HRH The Prince of Wales
David Brown - Tate Gallery
Lanesborough Hotel, London
John Brooks Inc.
Barclays Bank
Lawsons Communications
The Escarpment, New Zealand
Howe Green Manor
Myres Castle
Fox Films
Awards

Prize Winner "Discerning Eye", Mall Galleries
True Grain Award, John Purcell Paper Award, "National Print Exhibition"
Daler Rowney Award for Innovation, "Out of the Nineties"
Creswick Award for Landscape Painting
Royal Academy Medal for Painting
David Murray Landscape Scholarship Award
R.T.Z. Scholarship Award
Leverhume Scholarship
John Crompton Prize for Outstanding Craftsmanship
John Purcell Printmaking Prize
Associate Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers
Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Bursary Award
Cecil Collins Memorial Prize for Art
Cohn & Wolf Prize for Printmaking
Jane Hewitt Memorial Travel Scholarship
Euramass Scholarship, Rotterdam Academie van Beelden Kunsten, Rotterdam
Art Fairs

Munich Contempo, Germany
Olympia Contemporary, London
ShContemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
Vit Arte, Viterbo, Italy
Art Hamptons, U.S.A
Rome Contemporary Art Fair, Italy
Arco, Madrid, Spain
Swab, Barcelona, Spain
Art Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Bridge Art Fair New York USA
20/21 Art Fair, London, U.K.
London Art Fair, Islington, London
Art London, London, U.K.
Art Miami, U.S.A.
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, U.S.A.
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Madrid International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Barcelona International Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Rotterdam, Netherlands
TEFAF Maastricht, Netherlands
Art DC, U.S.A
Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
Palm Beach 3, Florida, U.S.A.
Art Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Phoenix, U.S.A.
Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Beverley Hills Classic, Beverly Hills, U.S.A.
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