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SIMON INGRAM b. 1971, New Zealand. Lives and works in

Simon Ingram’s work interprets the modernist practice of the autonomous, self-made artwork in relation to painting as a constructional and computationally based self-organising system. His practice articulates itself in three distinct lines of work: machines made from Lego robotics and generic constructional materials that paint autonomously in oil paint with a brush; paintings made by the artist that use artificial life systems as a method to govern composition and decision making; and video work related to the production of self- making painting machines. Drawing on divergent strands of knowledge (artificial life, painting, critical theory, software), Ingram’s work re-stages and reinvents painting as a critical, contemporary project that explores painting’s conceptual signification while remaining resolutely fabricational.

Ingram has a Doctorate of Fine Art from Elam School of Fine Art, (2006) where he is now a Senior Lecturer. He has won notable awards, including the University of Auckland Best Doctoral Thesis Award (2007). His work is held in key New Zealand collections such as those of Jenny Gibbs, Glenn Schaeffer and the Chartwell and Fletcher Trusts. Over the last few years of his career he has received awards including a University of Auckland Best Doctoral Thesis Award, a Francis Hodgkins Fellowship and a Creative New Zealand New Work Grant.

Simon Ingram has exhibited with Gow Langsford Gallery since 2008.

EDUCATION

2006 DocFA, University of Auckland, New Zealand

1999 Masters in Visual Arts, Sydney College of Art, University of Western Sydney, Australia Certificate in Information Technology, Sydney TAFE, Sydney, Australia

1995 Post Graduate Diploma, University of Western Sydney, Australia

1992 BA Fine Art, University of Auckland, New Zealand

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Monadic Device, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney

2017 Radio Painting Station: Looking for the Waterhol e, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Digital Plastique, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Simon Ingram: Digital Primitive, The Suter, Nelson, New Zealand

2015 Random Walk Geometries, Hebel 121, Basel, Switzerland Paintings of the Sun, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Radio Painting Station, JAR Art, Auckland

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2013 Radio Painting Station, JAR, Auckland Interview with a Painting, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Smoking Bolts, Artspace, Sydney

2011 En Plein Air, The Suburban, Chicago Little Wolf Field Recordings, The Great Poor Farm Experiment, Chicago Radio Painting, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2009 Random Walk in Brussels, CCNOA, Brussels /Brüssel Boing Boom Tschak! Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2007 Drawing for an Autopoietical Painting: Monadic Device, Installation, Sydney Contemporary, Sydney Monochrome in C with Monochrome in K Credit: Jacquie Manning A Centre for Art, Auckland

2006 Matter Thinks, Snowwhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland Reading Room, Jackson Mac Low Interview with a Painting, rm103, Auckland

2005 Painting as Machine, George Fraser Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland Drawing Machine, Clubs Project Space, Melbourne Drawing Machine, Canary Gallery, Auckland Garden, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

2004 Painting as Machine, Auckland, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland Towards a Painting that Thinks, MOP Projects, Sydney

2003 Dialogical Paintings, rm103, Auckland Simon Ingram—MOP Projects, Sydney Space Paintings, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

2001 Lines, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland AEIOU, Published Art Bookshop, Sydney

1999 Informational Space, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland Simon Ingram, Gallery South, Sydney

1998 Studio Show, 18th Street Santa Monica, Santa Monica, California

1997 Industrial Watercolours, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland Information Paintings, CBD Gallery, Sydney

1996 Instrumental, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland Paintings with Rules, CBD Gallery, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Lolly Scramble, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Almost Blue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2017 Raum(er)greifend / Ordnung - Unruhe, Lines. Vienna, Austria (two person) Celebrating 30 Years, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2016 Parabiosis, Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, China Necessary Distraction, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, Auckland

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Five Painters, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Gow Langsford Gallery Artists, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2015 Random Walk Geometries, Hebel 121, Basel, Switzerland The Water Tower Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2014 Freeze, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2013 Studio Situation, as part of As Many Structures as I Can, The Dowse Art Museum,

2012 Looking for the Waterhole, as part of Dark Sky, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington Procedure, RM, Auckland Contact: Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main Simon Ingram and James Cousins, 21st Projects, New York

2011 Driven to Abstraction, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland The Last Group Show: Dashper, Gardiner, Ingram, Nixon. SNO67, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney

2010 Julian Dashper (1960-2009): It Is Life, Minus Space, Brooklyn With Your Eyes Only in Brussels, CCNOA, Brussels TAG: James Cousins and Simon Ingram, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2009 With Your Eyes Only—Perceptive Moments (An Investment in Time), Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz Self-Making Painting Machine, PULSE Art Fair, New York

2008 Drunken Walk in New York, MoMA PS1, New York Yo Mo , CCNOA, Brussels Non-Objective Art and Concrete-Constructive Works, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V. (GKG), Bonn My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble, The Physics Room, Christchurch Julian Dashper — 1994, 2001, 2008; Simon Ingram — 1996, 2002, 2008; Salvatore Panatteri — 1998, 2003, 2008, Newcall Gallery, Auckland

2007 A Purposeless Production/A Necessary Praxis, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland Four Times Painting, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington The Secret Life of Painting, Public Art Gallery, Dunedin SNO31, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney A Greater Purpose, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2006 Just Painting, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Satellite, Shanghai Four Nails, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland The Future of Painting, Canary Gallery, Auckland SNO14, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney

2005 The Chartwell Collection: Snake Oil, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Cutler, 2011, oil on canvas, 1020 x 9700mm

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2004 Seeds of Order—Chaos of Rhythms, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland New New Zealand Art, MOP Projects, Sydney Duets, RAMP Gallery, Hamilton

2003 From the Shadows to the Sun, rm103, Auckland Yellow Pages, Artwalk Staatsliedenbuurt district, Amsterdam Netherlands Portraiture—The Art of Social Commentary, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland Group Show, MOP Projects, Sydney

2002 Group Show, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

2001 False Narratives, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, City Art Gallery, Wollongong, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Saturated Skins, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland Actually, Rubyayre Gallery, Sydney

1998 Screen Show, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland Jim Speers & Simon Ingram, CBD Gallery, Sydney

1997 Toby Curnow & Simon Ingram, Pendulum Gallery, Sydney

1996 CBD Benefit Show, CBD Gallery, Sydney

1995 Debut Exhibition, Inhouse Gallery, Auckland A Very Peculiar Practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Conland, N. (2007) Four Times Painting, Edited by Christina Barton. Published by The Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington. Wellington, New Zealand Di Stephano. J and the Satellite curatorial board, (2006). Shanghai, China Laird, T. (2005) New Zealand Listener, April 14 - 28. Auckland, New Zealand Gifford, A. (2005) Magic of the Machinesm The New Zealand Herald, Weds March 30. Auckland, New Zealand Smith, A. and S. Ingram. (2004), Towards a Painting That Thinks, Manukau City, ArtSchool Press, Manukau Insitute of Technology. ISBN 0-476-00671-6. Auckland, New Zealand Fowler, R. (2003) Portraiture, The Art Of Social Commentary, Te Tui-the Mark. Manukau City, New Zealand McNamara, T.J. (2003) Dynamic variations of simple patterns, NZ Herald, Auckland, New Zealand Green, T. (2001) Lines, PostWest Magazine. University of Western Sydney. Edited by Ben Genocchio. Sydney, Australia. Smith, A. (2000) Informational Space. Like Art Magazine, RMIT, Edited by Robin McKenzie, Melbourne, Australia Green, T. (1998) Industrial Watercolours, The Physics Room website (http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/) Edited by Tessa Laird, Christchurch, New Zealand Smith, A. (1997) New Zealand Modernism, The Content of Form - Paintings From the Gibbs Collection, Edited by James Ross, Auckland, New Zealand Smith, A and Davis, L. (1995) A Very Peculiar Practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, Wellington, City Gallery, ISBN 0-908818-31-9 Ingram. S. (2008) Conference presentation and contribution to proceedings. Tipping paintings verticality on its side, In the The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne Ingram. S. (2006) Short monograph. The Value of Andy Barbers No Collar Abstraction, New Artist Show, Artspace, Auckland. Ingram, S. (2006) Short monograph. Milan Habers Deep Drawing, SnowWhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland. Ingram, S. (2006) Conference presentation and contribution to proceedings, Painting as a Thinking Machine. In the conference workshop Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence for Beauty and Happiness, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston Ingram, S. (2006) Short monograph. Simon Dennys Bright Lumpen Object Sentences. Catalogue essay for forthcoming publication at Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

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Ingram, S. (2005) Essay/interview, Ingram Interviews Armanious: The Potting Shed Cosmologist. Natural Selection, Edited by Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps, Auckland, New Zealand Ingram, S. (2005) Conference presentation and contribution to proceedings, Painting Life: Automata in Painting and A-life, International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, University of California, Berkeley, USA Ingram, S. (2004) Artist portfolio, “Dialogical Paintings.” Landfall (207): 128-137. ISSN 00-23- 7930. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Ingram, S. (2004) Journal article, “Machinic Practice in Painting.” Junctures - The Journal for Thematic Dialogue 2(2): 33-44. ISSN 1-877139-65-3. Otago Polytech, Dunedin, New Zealand Ingram, S. (2004) Full conference paper. Materialist practice in painting and self organising systems. Processing Novelty. Intermedia and Time Based Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand. Ingram, S. (2002) Artist portfolio, Spirit Level Drawing, Probe Magazine, Edited by Gywn Porter, Untitled, 2017, oil on canvas, 1000 x 900mm Manukau Institute of Technology, Manukau City, New Zealand Ingram, S. (2002) Short monograph, Fusinatos Kinaesthetic Monochromes, Exhibition catalogue, Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, Edited by Robin Stoney, Auckland, New Zealand Ingram, S. (2002) Short monograph, Jan Van der Ploeg, Lives of the Artists, Edited by Elizabeth Pulie, Sydney, Australia Ingram, S. (2002) Article, Jim Speers, Illusions, Edited by Lawrence McDonald. Wellington, New Zealand. Ingram, S. (2002) Short monograph, Maddie Leach’s Ice Rink and Lilac Ship, Haiku review (#1 spring 2002) published by Carnival Askew, Sydney, Australia Ingram, S. (2000) 3 Short monographs, Andreas Gursky, Gerhard Richter, Rosalie Gascoigne, Biennale of Sydney Education Kit (3 essays) Edited by Craig Judd, Sydney, Australia Ingram, S. (2000) Article, Doug Aitken and Pippilotti Rist, Postwest, University of Western Sydney, Article, Edited by Ben Genocchio, Sydney, Australia Ingram, S. (2000) Article, Mimi Tong, Like Art Magazine, RMIT, Edited by Robin McKenzie, Melbourne, Australia Ingram, S. (1999) Artist portfolio, Magazine cover image, and Review of Los Angeles Studio residency. Postwest, University of Western Sydney. Edited by Ben Genocchio. Sydney, Australia. Ingram, S. (1998) Artist portfolio, Lay Bare the device, Material, Edited by John Nixon, Sydney, Australia Ingram, S. (1994) Article, Walters Double Bind, Post, Art History Department, The University of Auckland, Edited by Caleb Stuart Auckland, New Zealand

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