Eric Simon

° 1961

Lives in Hudson (Canada).

Multidisciplinary artist Eric Simon’s work revolves mainly around painting and drawing. Simon has shown his work in Canada and abroad in such venues as Musée de Joliette, Galerie Graff, Galerie Division in Montreal, Artmandat in France as well as a series of hit-and-run exhibitions in offbeat Montreal storefronts, offering visitors installations that managed to balance his affection for both Art Brut and realism. Simon is a founding member of Concordia University’s Drawing Lab Dessin. He published three books of fiction. He has received numerous grants and awards.

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The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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