Simon Roberts

Simon Roberts is one of the most acclaimed contemporary photographic artists working in the UK today. He is renowned for his nuanced enquiries into diverse conceptualisations of personal and collective identity, and in particular, how our human relationship to landscape informs our sense of belonging and selfhood.

His practice is principally photography based, but increasingly encompasses video, text and installation work, which together, interrogate our notions of what landscape is and how it is depicted, utilised, commodified and interpreted. Landscape, for Roberts, is contested, ambiguous space, shaped not only by material and environmental factors, but by fantasy and politics, economics and history. His work reflects contemporary debates in art and cultural geography that understand landscape as an active process of incremental change, whose representation must be subject to scrutiny.

Roberts has had solo exhibitions at the National Science and Media Museum (UK), the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy), and the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow (Russia). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’ at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (South Korea), 'Unfamiliar Familiarities’ at Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland) and ‘Modern Nature’ at Hepworth Wakefield (UK). His photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago and most recently were acquired by the V&A in London.

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