Simon Aldridge

Simon Aldridge
Born	1974 London, England
Nationality	British
Education	The Bartlett and Harvard University
Known for	Conceptual art, installation art, painting
Awards	RIBA Bronze Medal for Part 1 Students, Kennedy Scholarship, World Views Artist-in-Residence at the World Trade Center, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Patron(s)	New York Foundation for the Arts, Hall Art Foundation, Harvard University, Clifford Chance, Tom Burr, Andrew Hall (hedge fund manager), Julian Lethbridge, John Langeloth Loeb, Jr.

Simon Aldridge (born London, 1974) is a post-conceptual artist working in New York City.

Simon Aldridge was born in London, England. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's School and Winchester College. Aldridge graduated with a BSc from The Bartlett and an MA from Harvard University.

In 1995, Aldridge won the RIBA President's Medals Students Award, the highest prize offered by the Royal Institute of British Architects for a RIBA Part 1 project - the prize had previously been won by David Adjaye in 1993. From 1995-1996 Aldridge worked on a building site on the construction of the No. 1 Court (Wimbledon) where he began developing artwork using construction materials, office photocopiers, and epson engineering plotters. In 1996 he was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to study a Masters in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and while there he studied with and was greatly influenced by the Swiss architect, Peter Zumthor.

Aldridge also met the artist Ellen Phelan, who had just been made the Chair of the Department Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and through this connection he was able to study art at Harvard, and maintain an art studio in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the only building actually designed by Le Corbusier in the United States. There, he studied with Robert Storr (art academic), and was also influenced by lectures and studio visits by Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, and Joel Shapiro. He began to develop his artistic style, mentored by Julian Lethbridge, who introduced him to Printmaking.