Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara was born in London in 1982, and spent his childhood moving between Japan, Europe, and Africa. He received a BA in architecture from Cambridge University in 2005 and earned an MFA from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2008. Fujiwara’s practice is markedly performative and interdisciplinary in nature, calling upon diverse disciplines and mediums as a means to both research and reinvent his own multilayered autobiography.
Engineering complex narratives—both personal and political—Fujiwara’s art presents a profound inquiry into the nature of history, memory, and identity. Drawing on a constellation of diverse artifacts, locations, and events, his multimedia installations typically involve performance, music, architecture, lectures, and various literary forms, allowing for creative self-invention and an evolving exploration of his personal history.
EDUCATION
Städelschule Hochschule für Bildende Kunst
Frankfurt, Germany
Cambridge University, Architecture
Cambridge, United Kingdom
JURY
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou
Andrea Lenardin Madden
Gerhard Johann Lischka
Erwin Wurm
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
