Simon Fujiwara (born 1982, London) lives and works in Berlin.
Through novels, theater plays, lectures and installations, Fujiwara writes scripts and performs his own real-life biography as fiction—dramas in which he plays multiple characters, including historian, playwright, novelist, anthropologist and eroticist.
Often interweaving the lives of others into his own biography, Fujiwara’s performances expose both intimate and overtly grand histories, taking audiences on narrative journeys spanning five continents and three million years of history—from expeditions to the graves of Africa’s first man in search of his wayward Japanese father, to homoerotic fiction that re-imagines his parents’ lives under the Franco dictatorship in Spain.
Recent solo exhibitions include Letters from Mexico, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Phallusies, Gio Marconi, Milan; and Welcome to the Hotel Munber, Neue Alte Brücke, Statements, Art Basel 41. Recent group exhibitions include Open House, Singapore Biennale; 29th Sao Paulo Biennale; and Manifesta 8, Murcia. In 2010, he was the recipient of both the Baloise Prize at Art Basel and the Cartier Award, Frieze Art Fair.
