Simon Stone was born in 1952 in Lady Grey, South Africa, and currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Having graduated from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1976, Stone later continued his education in Italy. Since 1978, he has exhibited widely, both locally and abroad. Stone was the recipient of the New York City Award at the Ampersand Foundation in New York, USA in 1997. Prior to this, Stone was awarded a Lifetime Merit Award from the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1993.

In 2021, Stone presented his most recent solo exhibition, New Paintings, at SMAC Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa. Other notable solo exhibitions include a major museum retrospective of Stone’s paintings presented by SMAC Gallery at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg South Africa (2013), along with a seminal publication on the artist and his works - Simon Stone: Collected Works; Cogs of Mercy at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, accompanied by a new publication, titled Simon Stone: Sketchbooks 1 – 100, (2018); New Paintings at SMAC Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa (2016); and Both Sides of Now at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch, South Africa (2014).

In 2020, Stone’s work was included in A Show of Solidarity, a group exhibition in support of the South African Solidarity Fund during an enforced national Covid lockdown, at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, as well as the Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Further selected group exhibitions include: The Ampersand Foundation Award 21 years celebration exhibition at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa; as well as Suitcase Show, a collaborative group exhibition with Galleria Massimo Minini at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa, both in 2019; Back to the Future: Abstract Work in South Africa Past and Present I and II at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2013 and 2015, respectively; Paperwork: an exhibition of Contemporary South African works on paper in Stellenbosch, South Africa (2014); and PAINT I: Contemporary South African painting 2002 – 2012 at SMAC Gallery in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2013.

Stone’s work has been included in SMAC Gallery’s art fair presentations at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair, in Shepstone Gardens, Johannesburg, South Africa; Artissima in Turin, Italy; Miart in Milan, Italy; the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in Cape Town, South Africa and FNB Art Joburg in Johannesburg, South Africa.