Simon Lehner

Simon Lehner (1996) is currently living in and working from Vienna, Austria and in his graduating/diploma semester in Photography and timebased media at the University of applied Arts Vienna, Austria.

With his series „How far is a lightyear?“ he won the Paris-Photo Carte Blanche Award + the Paris-Photo Maison Ruinart Prize in 2018 and was selected in 2019 as a Red Hook Labs New Artist and for the Rencontres d’Arles Voies Off Awards. He received special mentions at the Plat(t)form Winterthur 19 for his body of work.
His ongoing book project „Men don’t play“, which includes a text by Brad Feuerhelm of American Suburbx was shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy Award in 2017.

Previously his work was featured in or commissioned by The British Journal of Photography, US-Vogue (September issue), i-D, Paper Journal Magazine, Document Journal, L’UOMO Vogue, Vogue Italia, die Zeit, Ain't Bad, Ignant, der Greif (Guest room), Tique Art Magazine, Phases Magazine, Musée Magazine, C41 Magazine and various others and exhibited in the US, UK, the Netherlands, France, Italia, Russia and Austria.

His work comes from personal experiences and has a documentary core as it explores, contemporary issues, social structures, psychology and its relation to current human and social developments through direct and embedded observation.

CV:
Awards/Nominations:
Photo Vogue "A glitch in the system", 2019, IT
Red Hook Labs New Artist 2019, NYC
Rencontres d’Arles Voies Off Awards 2019, FR
Plat(t)form Winterthur 2019 + special mention selection, CH
Foto Wien Portfolio Prize 2019, AUT
Paris-Photo Carte Blanche Award 2018
Paris-Photo Maison Ruinart Prize 2018
Unseen Dummy Book Award 2017 (shortlist)

Group/Shows: (selected)
(upcoming) Photo Vogue Festival, Milan / IT 2019
(upcoming) Solo show - Bildraum 01 , Vienna / AUT 2020
(upcoming) Red Hook Labs New Artists 2019, Oslo / NOR
(upcoming) Red Hook Labs New Artists 2019, Milan / IT
(upcoming) Solo show - Soiz Gallery, Passau / DE 2019

Red Hook Labs New Artists 2019, NYC / USA
Rencontres d’Arles, “How far is a lightyear?”, Arles / FR 2019
Fotogalerie-Vienna "Videowork", Vienna /AUT 2019
Riaperture, “How far is a lightyear?”, IT 2019
Foto Vienna, “How far is a lightyear?”, AUT 2019
(solo) Art Genève, Genf/CH 2019
Paris-Photo, Grand Palais + Gare du Nord, “How far is a lightyear?”, Paris /FR 2018
(solo) Paris-Photo Ruinart show, Grand Palais, Paris/FR 2018
12 Star Gallery, London „Koal“, /UK 2018
Photobookfestival Moscow, „Men don‘t play /RU 2018
Fotogalerie – Vienna „Men don‘t play /AUT 2018
Unseen Amsterdam, „Men don‘t play 2017 /NL
Salzburg Museum, Fotohof Edition „Facing Austria“, commissioned by the Austrian Minister of Fine Arts , „Koal“, Salzburg / AUT 2017
Photoinstitute Bonartes, „Koal“, Vienna / AUT 2017 Photobook festival, „Jaga“, Vienna / AUT 2017

Books:
„Men don’t play / Men do play“ (upcoming)
„Jaga“ Fotohof Edition, 2017
„Koal“ Fotohof Edition, Group publication „Facing Austria“, commissioned by the Austrian Minister of Fine Arts , 2017

Features/Clients: (selected)
British Journal of Photography
US-Vogue (September issue)
i-D
Paper Journal Magazine
Document Journal
L’UOMO Vogue
Vogue Italia
die Zeit
Ignant
der Greif (Guest room)
Ain't Bad
Tique Art Magazine
Numéro Magazine
Phases Magazine
Musée Magazine
C41 Magazine
A new nothing
This ain’t art school