Simon Burton was born in Yorkshire, England in 1973 and received a first class bachelor's degree at the University of Brighton in 1995, before completing his MA in 1997 at the Royal College of Art. Described by Lucian Freud in 1997 as, "the most promising young artist in Britain today," Burton received the Birtle prize for painting and worked in the U.S.A under the patronage of Robert and Susan Kasen-Summer (1997–98).
Burton's work is described as "figurative painting that treads a line between classical, abstraction and magic realism" being "heavily layered both physically and with art historical references".
2013 - One year later, York College Gallery, York, England
2012 - Between Cave and Gate, ARTARY Gallery, Stuttgart
2011 - Nowhere Men, Arch 402 Gallery, London
2010 - Black Swan, Blue Woman, Huddersfield Museum
2007 - Under the Sign of Saturn Kookmin Gallery, Seoul
2017 - Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
2016 - Paper Cuts, Transition Gallery, London
2016 - March, James Freeman Gallery, London
2016 - Selected works from the Priseman Seabrook Collection, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, England
2015 - Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, China
2015 - Neiland's Choice, GX Gallery, London
2014 - Opinion Makers 2, Curated by Lubomirov-Easton, Londonewcastle Project Space, London
2014 - Enclosures, Elsewhere at the Lion and Lamb Gallery
2014 - Some of My Colours at the Eagle Gallery
2014 - About Face Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
2011 - A Sort of Night to the Mind, ARTARY Gallery, Stuttgart
The Aldrich Collection, University of Brighton, England
The Louis-Dreyfus Collection, USA
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
The Priseman Seabrook Collection, UK
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, England
Royal College of Art, London

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