Simon Anton: Agglomerations

Simon Anton (Detroit, MI; he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and educator. He collaborates across the fields of architecture, interior design, furniture, art, and jewelry.

Anton is the co-founder of Thing Thing, a design collective that experiments in the transformation of post-consumer, hand-recycled polyethylene plastic. He facilitates Transforming Trash—where he works with youth in Detroit—to transform community plastic waste into art.

He is the cofounder of Got Grief House promoting art as a means of grief counseling.

His work has been presented at the Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale, Expo Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He received a Master of Fine Arts in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BS Architecture from the University of Michigan.