Simon Patterson
Stand-ins
20 June to 25 July 2026
Opening: Saturday 20 June 3 to 8pm
“We live in a world that is always changing, and yet we remain the same”
- Austerlitz There W.G.Sebald
SCHOOL is please to present Stand-ins, an alternating exhibition by Simon Patterson. Over the duration of the exhibition Patterson will alter the exhibition creating eight alternative experiences with more than 20 different artworks, shown, removed, and substituted by another. Stand-ins will start in black and white and morph into full colour offering an overview of works by one of Britain's most exciting and inventive artists spanning most of his 40+ year career.
Included in Stand-ins are White Heat, 1997, Yuri Gagarin/Valentina Tereshkova 1993; Le Maison Forestiere: Wilfred Owen, 2011 (English language animation); John Lennon,/Paul McCartney/ George Harrison/Ringo Starr, 2024; Color Match 1997, Yes, No, Maybe/ Perhaps (Avebury Ring version) 2001; Landskip, 2000; Le Match des couleurs, 2000; Escape Routine, 2002; Manned Flight 1999-, 1999-2017; and Saptarishi, 2012.
Between 1985 and 1989, Simon Patterson attended Hertfordshire College of Art and Design and Goldsmithsʼ College, University of London. Pattersonʼs work features in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Collection; Victoria and Albert Museum; Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY; Kunsthaus, Zurich; and The National Gallery of Art, Osaka.
Selected solo shows include: Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1989; The Grey Art Gallery, NY, 1993; Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1994; Lisson Gallery, London,1996; Kunsthaus, Zurich,1997; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2005; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2005; Haunch of Venison, London, 2007 & 2012; The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 2008; Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, 2013; The De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 2017 and a retrospective at the Serlachius Museums, Mantta, Finland, 2021-2022. ‘Out of Order’, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 2022.
Selected group exhibitions include ‘Freeze’( parts I&III), London, 1988; ‘Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art’, The Hayward Gallery, London,1992 (touring to Vienna Kunsthalle,1993); The last ‘Aperto’, Venice Biennale, 1993; ‘Mapping’, MoMA, NY,1994; ‘Sense of Order’, Museum of Modern Art, Lujbljana,1996; ‘Sensation,’ Royal Academy, London,1997 (touring to the The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1998); Sydney Biennale (2002); John Baldessari and Meg Cranstons’ ‘100 Artists See God’, ICI, Jewish Museum San Francisco, ICA, London (touring to various other venues) 2004-6; ‘Eye on Europe’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006; ‘Print the Legend: The Myth of the West’, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008; ‘Superpop’, Serlachius Museums, Mantta, Finland, 2014. ‘YBA & Beyond: British Art in the 1990s from the Tate Collection’, National Art Center, Tokyo (touring to Kyoto City KYOCERA museum of Art), 2026.
He was nominated for The Turner Prize in 1996.