About

Simon Reis is a Melbourne based installation artist producing both temporary and permanent major public artworks. Simon was originally trained as and worked as a mechatronics engineer, he entered the art world as a technician before extending into collaborative efforts, primarily with Cameron Bishop, working as ‘Bozo Ink’ and ‘Bishop & Reis’. He is currently studying a Masters of Fine Art, Art in Public Spaces at RMIT. As part of Bozo Ink, Simon has been a finalist in the McClelland Gallery Outdoor Sculpture Survey twice since 2007, the same year they won an Australian Council Grant.

BIOGRAPHY

Born Melbourne, Australia 1972

Live and works in Melbourne

EDUCATION

2016-Current Masters of Fine Art – Art In Public Spaces, RMIT, Melbourne
2015 Advanced Diploma of Engineering, Mechatronics Robotics, Swinburne University, Melbourne
1998 Certificate III Engineering (Mechanical), Barton College of TAFE, Melbourne

EXHIBITIONS

2016 Unnamed Laneway, Unnamed laneway, RMIT City Campus, Carlton
2016 Down By His Luck, Urban Laboratory: Carlisle Street – Port Phillip
2016 Lost Objects, Counihan Gallery (Bishop & Reis)
2016 Leisureland, Seventh Gallery (Bishop & Reis)
2016 Fugue Frames, Young People and the Digital Symposium, ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), (Bishop and Reis)
2015 “View of Geelong” Transpanorama – Ruin and Viewin’, Geelong Public Art Project Commission (Bishop & Reis)
2012 MaxBell, Geelong Regional Gallery (Bishop & Reis)
2011 Gallery “X2”, Seventh Gallery (Bishop & Reis)
2010 “x is not the same as X”, West Wing @West Space (Bishop & Reis)
2006 Mnemonia Country', Trocadero Art Space (Bishop & Reis)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Zero Monument (or the human stain remover), Morbis Artis: Diseases of the Arts, RMIT Gallery (Bishop & Reis)
2014 Inside Out Law, McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award Finalist, Artist (Bishop, Reis & Fitzsimmons)
2008 Glacial Matters, 6A Hobart, Artist (Bozo Ink- Bishop, Reis & Shone)
2007 The Mnemonia Room, McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award Finalist, Artist (Bozo Ink- Bishop, Reis, Gold & Fitzsimmons)
2006 Mnemonic, Yarra Sculpture Space, Artist (Bozo Ink- Bishop, Reis, Gold & Fitzsimmons)
2004 Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Fart, Yarra Sculpture Space, Artist (Bozo Ink- Bishop, Reis, Gold & Fitzsimmons) Awards
2014 Geelong Council “View of Geelong” Commission
2007 Australian Art Council Award

PRODUCTION/ TECHNICAL ROLES

2017 Production Manager – Treatment 2, Flight Lines, a public art project at the Western Treatment Plant, Werribee- curated by Dr. Cameron Bishop
2015 Production Manager - Treatment, a public art project at the Western Treatment Plant, Werribee- curated by Prof. David Cross
2013 Technical Consultant, Heteromania (Dr Cameron Bishop) UTAS
2009 Technical Consultant (Cameron Bishop) PHD Examination, Phoenix Gallery, Deakin Burwood
2005 Art Department - TV Advertisement - Alcoholics Anonymous
2004 Production Assistant – Deckchair Theatre, Fremantle, WA, Shakespeare in the Park