Simon Denny

SIMON DENNY (b. 1982 Auckland, New Zealand) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He makes artworks that unpack stories about technology using a variety of media including painting, web-based media, installation, sculpture, print and video. He studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland and at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.

Recent solo exhibitions include Petzel Gallery, New York (2024); Kunstverein Hannover (2023); K21– Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2020); the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2018); OCAT- OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2016); Serpentine Galleries, London (2015); Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York (2015); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2013); Kunstverein Munich (2013).

Denny represented New Zealand at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. Denny has curated exhibitions such as Proof of Stake at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2021) and Proof of Work at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018). 

His works are represented in major institutional collections including:

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Kunsthaus Zürich
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

He co-founded the artist mentoring program BPA//Berlin Program for Artists and serves as a Professor of Time-Based Media at The Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.