Simon Coates (artist)

Simon Coates (born in Sheffield) is a British artist & curator who currently lives and works in Dubai. He works in paint, installation, mixed media and film.

Coates attended Plymouth College of Art where he completed a course in Foundation Art. He went on to complete a degree in Fashion Design at Harrow College of Art, which became part of the University of Westminster in 1990.

Coates work is influenced by the late West Country painter Robert Lenkiewicz, the works of the Viennese Actionists (particularly Hermann Nitsch), the political cartoonist Ralph Steadman and the works of Samuel Beckett, amongst others.

In 2015 Coates opened the Middle East base for the Hungry Castle artist collective, the team responsible for large-scale public artworks like Lionel Richie's Head, Laser Cat and more.  In September 2015 he will launch the Middle East's only sound art club night - Tse Tse Fly - with Ram Nath.

• 2010 Off The Shelf Exhibition, Saltburn-By-The-Sea Gallery, York, UK
• 2010 Sleeping Runners, Brick Lane Gallery, London
• 2011 Artist In Residence, Gallery of Light, Dubai, UAE
• 2011 Recession, Work Progress Collective, New York, USA
• 2011 Artist In Residence, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
• 2012 Billboard Art Project (9 x digital artworks), Albany, NY, USA
• 2012 Museum of Virulent Experience (2 x films), Conway Hall, London
• 2013 Bodied Spaces (1 x film collaboration with Sara Al Haddad), Art Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin
• 2013 Hunger (curator), The Gallery of Light, Dubai, UAE
• 2014 PNEM Sound art Festival (as A Taxi For My Uncle), Uden, the Netherlands
• 2014 Peace In An Open Space (curator), The Gallery of Light, Dubai, UAE
• 2015 Safina Radio Project (as A Taxi For My Uncle), Dubai/Venice Biennale
• 2015 Tse Tse Fly (as A Taxi For My Uncle & curator), Casa Latina Dubai, UAE

• "Hunger | Halloween Art Exhibition". Emirates Woman. Retrieved 2015-09-07. 
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