Simon Edmondson was born in London in 1955. In 1978, he completed his artistic training with a Master's degree in Painting from Chelsea College of Art in London, alongside other notable artists of his generation, such as Anish Kapoor and Sean Scully. That same year, he received a scholarship to attend Syracuse University in New York, where he studied with Anthony Caro and Clement Greenberg, among others. Before returning to England in 1980, Edmondson spent some time in New York and became familiar with the local art scene. After returning to London, he began working with the influential Nicola Jacobs Gallery, exhibiting regularly between 1981 and 1991. During this period, he established important contacts in Berlin, Zurich, New York, and Los Angeles, with various solo exhibitions, such as at Michael Haas in Berlin (1986), and David Beitzel in New York (1989, 1991). In 1991, he moved to Madrid, where he has lived and worked ever since. He had his first major institutional exhibition at Deutsche Bank in Madrid in 1998 and in 2009/10 at the Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt in Austria. From the beginning, Edmondson has produced figurative painting with an expressionist language, in which forms dissolve and fade into empty and ruinous settings, evoking a nostalgic and redemptive sense of the past. With that same technique and language, Edmondson explores the dual nature of our existence: presence and absence, good and evil.
