Simon Anderson

Associate Professor, Art History, Theory, and Criticism (1992). BA, 1976, Sunderland University; MA and PhD, 1988, Royal College of Art, London, U.K.

Simon Anderson is a British-born and -educated cultural historian whose art school exposure to fluxus helped to shape a career. He gained a Ph.D from the Royal College of Art in London, writing on two years of full-time research in the Fluxshoe/Beau Geste Press collection held by the Tate Gallery Archive. He has worked at SAIC since 1993, serving in a number of roles but mostly teaching a range of seminars and lecture classes on twentieth-century art and anti-art. In addition to organizing exhibitions and conducting concerts; designing, and producing publications; conceiving and collaborating on inter-institutional classes, he has written exhibition commentaries, magazine criticism, and book chapters on Fluxus, Mail-art, expanded poetry, the Situationist International, and conceptual photography. He has lectured widely, and has acted as a gallery dealer in, private consultant on, and public speaker about the experimental arts and artifacts of the 1960s, 70s & 80s. Long an advocate of performance as a way of knowing, he continues to analyze, to observe, arrange and perform events, concerts–and life amid the trees–in a Fluxus mode.

Morgan Turner (MAAH 2023), "Interpreting Spatial Poem by Mieako Shiomi"

Quinn Veasman (2021), "As Time Goes By: a Speculative Viewing of Ralston Farina’s Aléatoire Je ne sais quoi"