Simon Burton (artist)

Simon Burton
Born	Yorkshire
Education	University of Brighton Royal College of Art
Occupation	Artist
Website	Simon Burton Official

University of Brighton

Simon Burton was born in Yorkshire, England in 1973 and received a first class bachelor's degree at the University of Brighton in 1995, before completing his MA in 1997 at the Royal College of Art. Described by Lucian Freud in 1997 as, “the most promising young artist in Britain today,” Burton received the Birtle prize for painting (1995), a travel award to ARCO studios in Lisbon, Portugal (1996), The John Minton Travel award (1996), The Jenny Hall Scholarship (1996) and worked in the U.S.A under the patronage of Robert and Susan Kasen-Summer (1997–98).

Burton’s work is described as “figurative painting that treads a line between classical, abstraction and magic realism” being “heavily layered both physically and with art historical references”.

2013 - One year later, York College Gallery, York, England

2012 - Between Cave and Gate, ARTARY Gallery, Stuttgart

2011 - Nowhere Men, Arch 402 Gallery, London

2010 - Black Swan, Blue Woman, Huddersfield Museum

2007 - Under the Sign of Saturn Kookmin Gallery, Seoul

2017 - Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

2016 - Paper Cuts, Transition Gallery, London

2016 - March, James Freeman Gallery, London

2016 - Selected works from the Priseman Seabrook Collection, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, England

2015 - Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, China

2015 - Neiland's Choice, GX Gallery, London

2014 - Opinion Makers 2, Curated by Lubomirov-Easton, Londonewcastle Project Space, London