A Short History

Confounding typical expectations and bridging cultural spheres, the artworks of Simon Grennan & Christopher Sperandio are rooted in anecdotes of everyday experience. The pair first came to international attention with their "We got it!" chocolate bar produced as a part of Sculpture Chicago's groundbreaking "Culture in Action" exhibition. The "We got it!" bar was the result of a collaboration with the unionized workforce of a suburban Chicago chocolate factory.


"We got it!" 36 chocolate bars in point-of-sale display, 1993.

The bulk of their recent work is the production of collaborative comic books produced in conjunction with museums, and co-published by comic book publishers including Fantagraphics Books and DC Comics. They've authored 23 books with 188,000 copies in distribution. Typical of these is the "Invisible City" project for the Public Art Fund and "Modern Masters" produced for PS1/MoMA.


"The Invisible City," Public Art Fund, 1999.

Grennan and Sperandio have created new artworks and installations for more than forty museums and galleries in Europe and the United States including the Museum of Modern Art/PS1, London's Institute for Contemporary Art, the Seattle Art Museum, Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and American Fine Arts.


"Modern Masters," PS1/moMA, 2002.

Recently, they've turned their attention to television, producing TV pilots for MTV. Their drawings have been featured in WIRED, GQ Korea and on London's Channel Four. Simon Grennan is based just outside London and Christopher Sperandio lives in the suburbs of New York.

For additional information, please see:
- Plop: Recent Projects from the Public Art Fund, 2004
- One Place after Another by Miwon Kwon, MIT Press, 2002
- Paul Krainak's article in the October 2002 issue of Art Papers
- Joyce Wadler's profile, May 6, 1999, The New York Times
- Charlene Lattea's article in the WVU Magazine, Spring 2001.
- After the End of Art, by Arthur Danto, Princeton Univ. Press, 1998
- Culture in Action by Mary Jane Jacob (editor), Bay Press, 1995