Simon Denny is a New Zealand-born conceptual artist known for his investigative approach to technology, corporate culture, and geopolitical power structures. Working across installation, video, print, and sculpture, he dissects the visual languages of Silicon Valley, surveillance capitalism, and digital economies to reveal their underlying ideologies. Denny has gained international recognition through major exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA PS1, the Venice Biennale, and Serpentine Galleries, and is considered one of the most significant artists engaging critically with the intersection of technology and contemporary society.
Artists in conversation
Hito Steyerl
Steyerl similarly uses video, installation, and research based practice to critically interrogate digital capitalism, surveillance systems, and the ideological underpinnings of technology and corporate power.
Metahaven
Metahaven shares Denny's investigative approach to the visual languages of corporate entities, geopolitical structures, and digital economies, working across graphic design, installation, and film to expose underlying ideologies.
Seth Price
Price similarly interrogates how information, media formats, and corporate distribution systems shape culture, working across sculpture, video, and print in a conceptually rigorous and materially diverse practice.
Artists who inspired them
Hans Haacke
Haacke pioneered institutional critique and the exposure of corporate and political power structures within art contexts, providing a foundational methodology that Denny extends into the realm of Silicon Valley and surveillance capitalism.
Joseph Kosuth
Kosuth's rigorous conceptualism and use of language, systems, and institutional frameworks as artistic material directly informed Denny's text heavy and research driven investigative installations.
Richard Hamilton
Hamilton's pop art dissection of consumer culture, technology, and corporate visual language established a critical template for examining the aesthetics of commerce and industry that resonates strongly throughout Denny's practice.