Selected Group Exhibitions (since 2005)

2021  ‘Colours,’ Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy

2019  ‘1968’, Three-person show at Eagle Gallery, London

2017  ‘Wider than the Sky’, Artspace Boan 1943, Seoul

2016  ‘Bookish’, Thomas Park Gallery, Seoul

          ‘Writing on the Wall’, Art First, London

          ‘A L’Echelle des Mots’, Espace Larith, Chambery, France

2015  ‘Visible Air’, Kyunghee University Museum of Art, Seoul

2014  ‘Le Mont Analogue’, Galerie Julien Bezille, Paris

          ‘Moon’, Art First Gallery, London

          ‘Universal Studios, Seoul’, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

          ‘Memoire de guerre,’ Musée Romain Rolland, Clamecy, France

2013  ‘Crossing Spaces’, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany

          ‘Natural History’, Art First, London

          ‘Monocromi. Dalla Materia alla Superficie. La Poetica dell’oggetto.

           Morley e Pinelli,’ Galleria Spazia, Bologna

          Chang Eung-Bok’s Boutique Hotel, ‘Peach Blossom Dream’, SeMA, Seoul

          Gwangju Design Biennial (collab. with Chang Eung-Bok), Gwangju, Korea

2012  Poznan Mediations Biennial, ‘The Unknown’, Poznan, Poland

          REAL DMZ, Cheorwon Province, South Korea, curated by Samuso

2010  ‘Gyeonggi Creation Center Residency Program Exhibition’, Incheon Art

          Platform, South Korea

2009  ‘Self-Taught’, Uri and Rami Museum, Ashdot Yaacov, Israel

          ‘ZOOM’, Looking Back/Looking Forward’, Art First, London

2008  Michael Petry’s ‘Golden Rain’, On the Edge exhibition, Savenger, Norway,

          European Capital of Culture Exhibition

2006 ‘Les Mots pour le faire’, with Yves Chaudouet and Maria Chevska, Musée

          Romain Rolland, Clamecy, France

2005  ‘A Picture of Britain’, Tate Britain, London

          ‘Ex Roma’, Abbey Award Winners Exhibition, APT Gallery, London

          ‘Lost and Found in Translation’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall    

          'Art is a Word', Benefit exhibition for the Museums of Israel, Christie’s, London

Public and Corporate Collections

Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Ansan, South Korea), Musee des Beaux-Arts (Dijon, France), Akxo Nobel (Holland), Cityside Development (London), Musée Romain Rolland (Clamecy, France), Tate Gallery Library (London), Victoria and Albert Museum Library (London), Wordsworth Trust (Grasmere, Cumbria, UK), Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London), Winchester School of Art Artists’ Book Collection

Awards, Residencies & Fellowships

2010     Artist in Residence, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea

2008     Artist in Residence, Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul

2005     Artist in Residence, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Parc Saint Leger, Pougues-les-Eaux, Burgundy, France

2004     Abbey Fellow in Painting, The British School in Rome

2003/04             British Council Travel Award (Japan)

2002/03 Artist-in-Residence, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria, UK

2000     Elephant Trust Grant

1998     London Arts Board Grant

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Simon Morley is also a writer. He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art (2001), Seven Keys to Modern Art (2019, also translated into Korean), and The Simple Truth: The Monochrome in Modern Art (2020). He is the editor of The Sublime: Documents in Contemporary Art (2010), and co-editor of a Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary Painting, ‘Dialogues in Painting and Gesture-East and West’ in 2021. His essay on Chung Sang Hwa was published in the catalog of the 2021 exhibition at the MMCA, Seoul. His most recent book, the product of an avocation, By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose, is published in October 2021. He is currently writing a new history of modern painting, to be published in 2023.

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