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About the Artist
Simon Tatum

b. 1995

Simon Tatum is currently pursuing his MFA in Sculpture and Expanded Media at Kent State University in Ohio. He completed his BA at the University of Missouri in 2017, for which he received the Cayman Islands Government Overseas Scholarship and the Deutsche Bank National Gallery Visual Arts Scholarship. Tatum’s work, which explores his Caymanian heritage, was featured in a three-artist exhibition, Evoke (Imago Gallery and Cultural Center, Columbia, Missouri, 2015) and he was selected to represent the University of Missouri in the SEC Academic Symposium’s Undergraduate and Graduate Fine Art Showcase in 2015. He has held two solo shows to date: Discover and Rediscover (2016), at the University of Missouri and Looking Back and Thinking Ahead at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands in 2017, as well as participating in several group exhibitions, including Open Air Prisons at LACE Gallery, Los Angeles (2016) and Sense of Place at Spinnerei Halle 18 in Leipzig, Germany (2018). Tatum was part of the Caribbean Linked IV residency programme in Oranjestad, Aruba, in 2016. In addition to his 2017 solo show, Tatum’s work was featured at NGCI in the exhibitions tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015), Speak to Me (2016), Mediating Self (2017), Upon the Seas (2017), Revive: Contemporary Caymanian Craft (2017), and Tropical Visions (2019).

Featured Works

Looking Glass

Simon Tatum
2015

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Tropical Form

Simon Tatum
2018

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Garden Scene

Simon Tatum
2019

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Memory Tanks

Simon Tatum
2019

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Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Powell & Simon Tatum - Bell Jar Basket

Bell Jar Basket

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Powell, Simon Tatum
2017

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Related Exhibitions

15-3 Jun Oct 2019

Tropical Visions

Landscape Painting from the National Collection
3-11 Oct Jan 2017

REVIVE

Contemporary Caymanian Craft
20-22 Jan Jun 2017

Upon The Seas

An Exhibition from the Maritime Series
30-23 Jun Sep 2017

Mediating Self

Identity and the Body
24-12 Sep Jan 2016

Speak to Me

Understanding the Language of Art
10-5 Sep Nov 2015

tIDal Shift

Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art

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