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Simon Denny, Dungeon map 3: Mall Madness board, 2024

Simon Denny

Dungeon map 3: Mall Madness board, 2024

Oil and UV print on canvas

39 3/8 x 59 x 1 3/4 in
100 x 149.9 x 4.4 cm

(SD 24/007)

Simon Denny -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Simon Denny (b. 1982, Auckland, New Zealand) graduated from the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Simon Denny was the winner of Art Basel’s annual Baloise Art Prize (2012).

His work has challenged numerous themes entrenched in modern society’s globalized culture: the Internet, technological obsolescence, corporate culture, television broadcasting, and national identity. Recent solo exhibitions include MINE, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2019); Hammer Projects: Simon Denny, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); Innovator’s Dilemma, MoMA PS1, New York (2015); Envisaging Vocational Rehabilitation, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany (2012); Cruise Line, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (2011); Chronic Expectation: CFS/ME Documentary Restoration, T293, Rome (2011); Corporate Video Decisions, Michael Lett, Auckland; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2011); Negative Headroom: The Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident; Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany; and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2010).

Recent group exhibitions include Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, de Young Museum, San Francisco (2020); Fluidity, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (2016); Secret Power, New Zealand Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015, 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice (2015); That's The Way We Do it: The Techniques and Aesthetic of Appropriation from Ei Arakawa to Andy Warhol, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2011); and Based in Berlin, KW Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2011). 

MINE, Petzel Gallery, 2021, Installation view

MINE, Petzel Gallery, 2021

Installation view

MINE, Petzel Gallery, 2021, Installation view

MINE, Petzel Gallery, 2021

Installation view

installation of MINE at MONA in 2020, featuring large vinyl on the floor that looks like a board game and several large cardboard sculptures of mining machinery standing on it.

MINE, Museum of Old and New Art, 2020

Installation view

installation of MINE at MONA in 2020, featuring large vinyl on the floor that looks like a board game and a large cardboard sculpture of mining machinery standing on it.

MINE, Museum of Old and New Art, 2020

Installation view

Installation of The Founder's Paradox at MCA Cleveland in 2018, featruing several tables with boardgames on them and covered in Plexi galss in the senter of the room and several large works on the wall that look like covers from board games.

The Founder's Paradox, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2018

Installation view

Installation image of The Founder's Paradox at the MCA Cleveland in 2018. there are several pedestals with works on them and textual vinyls on the wall behind them.

The Founder's Paradox, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2018

Installation view

Installation of Blockchain future states at Petzel Gallery in 2016, featuring several dream boxes hanging on the walls and a large cut out of Ash from Pokemon on a pedestal with an open pokeball next to him.

Blockchain Future States, Petzel Gallery, 2016

Installation view

installation shot from Blockchain Futurue States at Petzel Gallery in 2016. features two risk game son pedestals and several case mods hanging on background wall.

Blockchain Future States, Petzel Gallery, 2016

Installation view

installation of All you need is Data at the Kunstverein Munich in 2013, featuring several large prints mounted on steel banisters in the center of the room

All You Need is Data, Kunstverein Munich, 2013

Installatin view