This resume is current as of February 1999.
Born April 14, 1964, New York; lives and works in New York
Attended School of Visual Arts, New York, B.F.A., 1988;
The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, M.F.A., 1990
One-Person Exhibitions:
1989 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
1990 White Columns, New York
1991 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Simon Watson Gallery, New York
1992 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami
"The Garden of Hate," Whitney Museum at Philip Morris,
New York (ex brochure)
1993 Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
Metro Pictures, New York
1994 "Directions: Gary Simmons," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
(ex. brochure)
1995 The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(two-person exhibition with Glenn Ligon)
Metro Pictures, New York
The Contemporary, New York
"Gary Simmons: Erasure Drawings," Lannan Foundation,
Los Angeles (ex.brochure)
1996 Metro Pictures, New York
"Boom, Bang!" Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (ex. cat.)
1996 "Gary Simmons: Gazebo," Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego (February 9-May 7)
Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
"Wall Drawings," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
(September 9-November 11, ex. cat.)
1998 The Gallery of the Department of Art & Art History,
Dana Arts Center, Colgate University
(February 5-February 28, ex. broch.)
Margo Leavin, Los Angeles
Metro Pictures, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1989 American Fine Arts, Co., New York
1990 "Earth," Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica
"Membership Has Its Privileges," Lang & O'Hara,
New York
"Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit," New Museum
of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York
"All Quiet on the Western Front?" Espace de Dieu, Paris
"Official Language," San Francisco Art Institute Galleries,
San Francisco
"Total Metal," Simon Watson Gallery, New York
1991 "Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art,"
Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York; Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis;
Madison Art Center, WI; Center for Fine Arts, Miami;
Allen Museum Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Duke
University of Art, Durham, North Carolina (ex. cat.)
"The Subversive Stitch," Simon Watson Gallery, New York
"Someone Or Somebody," Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
"Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zu Politik und Identitat," Neue
Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
1992 "Structural Damage," BlumHelman Warehouse, New York
"A Paper Trail," Berland/Hall, New York
"The Politics of Difference: Artists Explore Issues of
Identity," University Art Gallery, University of
California, Riverside
"The Big Nothing or Le Presque Rien," The New Museum of
Contemporary Art and French Cultural Services,
New York
"How It Is," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
"Back Talk," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
"Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience," Whitney Museum
of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
"Dissent, Difference, and the Body Politic," Portland Art
Museum, OR; Otis Parsons School of Design (ex. cat.)
"Wall Drawings," The Drawing Center, New York
1993 "1993 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York (ex. cat.)
Thread Waxing Space, New York
"Contacts Proofs," Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
Metro Pictures, New York
"The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream
Criticism," Fine Arts Gallery, University of
California, Irvine (ex. cat.)
1994 "Urban Paradise: Gardens in the City," Paine Webber Art
Gallery, New York Metro Pictures, New York
"Lousy Fear," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
"Labor and Leisure," John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
Sheboygan, WI
"Summer Academy I," PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York
"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in
Contemporary American Art," Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York; Armond Hammer Gallery,
University of California at Los Angeles (ex. cat.)
1995 "Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995,"
Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany (ex. cat.)
Metro Pictures, New York
1996 "Imagined Communities," Oldham Art Gallery, London
(traveling venues through 1997, ex. cat.)
"Defining the 90's: Consensus Making in New York,
Los Angeles, and Miami," Museum of Contemporary
Art, Miami
"Under Capricorn: Art in the Age of Globalization,"
Stedelijk Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (ex. cat.)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Getekend, Amerika!" MK Espositieruimte, Rotterdam,
Netherlands (ex. cat)
"Aer 27 '96, Basel International Art Fair," Galerie
Philippe Rizzo
Metro Pictures, New York
Friedrich Petzel, New York
"A/drift," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
New York (October 20-January 5)
"Fragments: Proposta per a una col.leccio de fotografia
contemporania," Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
(ex. cat.)
"Inklusion, Exklusion: Kunst im Zeitalter von
Postkolonialismus und globaler Migration,"
Graz, Austria (September 22-October 26, ex. cat.)
1997 "New York: Drawings Today," San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art (January 17-June 4)
"No Place (Like Home)," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"Gothic," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
(ex. cat.)
"Now on View II," Metro Pictures, New York
"Karl Blossfeldt, McCollum / Simmons," S.L. Simpson
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"Drawings," Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, Washington
(July 3-August 17)
"Trade Routes: History and Geography," 2nd Johannesburg
Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa (October 12-
January 18)
"No Small Feat," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
"Coming Home Again," Visual Arts Gallery, New York
"Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's,"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1998 "The Campaign Against Living Miserably," Royal
College of Arts, Lcndon
"Drawings...Second Annual Invitational," Meyerson &
Nowinski, Seattle, Washington
1999 "Drawn by...", Metro Pictures, New York
Selected Bibliography:
1989 Peter Frank, "Pick of the Week," LA Weekly, December 29
Cathy Curtis, "Galleries," Los Angeles Times, December 15
Kim Levin, "Critics Pick," The Village Voice, Summer Issue
1990 Michael Anderson, "Gary Simmons," Art Issues, March/April,
p. 23
Colin Gardner, "Gary Simmons," Artforum, March, p. 169
Doug Ischar, "Articulating Subjectivity," Artweek,
January 18, p. 11
1991 Roberta Smith, "The Subversive Stitch," The New York
Times, July 12
Kim Levin, "Choices," The Village Voice, July 16
Roberta Smith, "Interrogating Identity," The New York
Times, March 17
Cathy Carter, "Galleries," Los Angeles Times, June 28
Gretchen Faust, "NY in Review," Arts Magazine, February,
p. 103
Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art, Grey
Art Gallery, NYU, New York; Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Madison Art
Center, WI; Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Allen
Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Duke University
Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (ex. cat.)
Lawrence Gipe, "Gary Simmons," Flash Art, October,
p. 142
Susan Kendal, "LA in Review," Arts Magazine, October,
p. 103
Robert Mahony: "New York in Review," Arts Magazine, March,
p. 94
Lois Nesbitt, "Interogating Identity," Artforum, Summer,
p. 115
1992 Yasmin Ramiriz, "Gary Simmons," Art in America, December,
p. 116
Gary Simmons: The Garden of Hate, interview by Thelma
Golden, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
(ex. brochure)
The Edge of Childhood, essays by Barbara Coller, Donald
Kuspit, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
1993 Gene Ray, "Gary Simmons," Flash Art, January/February,
p. 94
Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, introduction by
Simon Watson, essay by John Weber, Portland Art Museum,
Oregon (ex. cat.)
Matthias Matussek, "Kunst als Schauprozess," Der Spiegel,
April 12, pp. 228 - 232
1993 Biennial Exhibition, essays by Homi K. Bhabha,
Coco Fusco, B. Ruby Rich, Avita Ronell, Elizabeth
Sussman, Thelma Golden, John G. Hanhardt, Lisa Phillips,
David A. Ross, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(ex. cat.)
Holland Cotter, "Gary Simmons: Metro Pictures," The New
York Times, October 8, p. C30
John Brumfield, "Marginalia: Life in a Day of Black L.A.
or, The Theater of Refusal," Art Issues, No. 29,
September/October, pp. 24-27
Jean Charles Agboton-Jumeau, "Gary Simmons and M. Franklin
Sirmans at Galerie Rizzo," Forum International,
October/November, p. 133
Amei Wallach, "Art with an Attitude," New York Newsday,
March 5, pp. 52-53
Deborah Solomon, "A Showcase for Political Correctness,"
The Wall Street Journal, March 5, p. A7
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism,
Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
(ex. cat.)
Roberta Smith, "A Whitney Biennial with a Social Conscience,"
The New York Times, March 5, pp. C1 and C27
Christopher Knight, "Crushed By Its Good Intentions,"
Los Angeles Times, March 10, pp. F1, F8-F9
1994 Jan Avgikos, "Gary Simmons at Metro Pictures," Artforum,
January, p. 87
Deidre Stein, "The Multiple Multiplies," Artnews, May,
pp. 85-86
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary
American Art, essays by Elizabeth Alexander et al,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Armond
Hammer Gallery, University of California at
Los Angeles (ex. cat.)
Peter Plagens and Ellis Cose, "Black Like Whom?"
Newsweek, November 14, pp. 64-67
Paul Gardner, "Light, Canvas, Action: When Artists
Go to the Movies," Artnews, December, pp. 124-129
Bonnie Clearwater, "Arrested Childhood," Art Press,
December, No. 197, pp.
33-40
Directions: Gary Simmons, interview by Amada Cruz,
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
(ex. brochure)
1995 Greg Tate, "Start Black-Owned Conceptual Bomber,"
Vibe, February
Linda Nochlin, "Learning from 'Black Male',"
Art in America, March, pp. 86-91
George Howell, "Gary Simmons: Erasures," Art Papers,
March/April, pp. 39-40
"If They Built a Memorial to the War In the Streets,"
The New York Times Magazine, April 9, p. 112
Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995,
Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany (ex. cat.)
Edith Newhall, "Installation: Now Growing in SoHo,"
New York Magazine, May 1
Thomas Hoving, "Art for the Ages," Cigar Aficionado,
Summer, pp. 214-226
Tom Eccles, "Gary Simmons at The Contemporary and
Metro Pictures," Art in America, July, pp. 83-84
David Pagel, "The Writing's on the Wall," Los Angeles
Times, September 24, pp. 63, 66
Christopher Knight, "Social Studies on the Blackboard,"
Los Angeles Times, October 5, pp. F1, F8, F10
David Pagel, "Gary Simmons," Frieze, #24,
September/October, pp. 79-80
Gary Simmons: Erasure Drawings, essay by Lisa Lyons,
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles (ex. brochure)
Flash Art News, "More Reduction & Erasure at Lannan
(But it's not what you think...)," Flash Art,
November-December, p. 41
Rosanna Albertini, "Gary Simmons - Lannan Foundation,"
Art Press, #208, December, p. 76
Ralph Rugoff, "Best & Worst 1995," Artforum,
December, p. 67
Andrew Perchuk, "Gary Simmons - Lannan Foundation,"
Artforum, December, pp. 94-95
Christopher Knight, "Art: Canvassing the Year of
Brilliance," Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section,
December 31, p. 27
David A. Greene, "Imperfect World: Gary Simmons
Fights the Power with Subtle Beauty," Los Angeles
Reader, October 7 (review for show at Lannan
Foundation)
1996 Imagined Communities, introduction by Richard Hylton
and text by Kobena Mercer, Oldham Art Gallery,
London (ex. cat.)
Piers Masterson, "Imagined Communities," Art Monthly,
March, pp. 33-35
Michael Bracewell, "Beyond These Four Walls,"
The Independent (UK),February 13, section 2
Allister Harry, "Black Community...Who/ Us?,"
Voice (UK), February 27
Sarah Kent, "Divided We Stand," Time Out (UK),
September 13, p. 49
Iain Gale, "Full of Sound and Fury Signifying,"
Scotland on Sunday, January 26, p. 14
Georgina Palffy, "Imagined Communities," What's On
(UK), September 25
Claire Lofting, "Society Portraits," Blueprint
(UK), March, p. 39
Martin Vincent, "Community of Artists," City Life
(UK), January 24
Adam Reynolds, "Imagined Communities," Disability
Now (UK), October
"Take Out: Art," Time Out New York, March 13-20,
p. 3
Pepe Karmel, "Gary Simmons" (review), The New York
Times, March 22, p. C27
"MK Expositieruimte: Getekend, Amerika!," Rotterdam
On Line, tekenen/drawing '96, p. 53 (ex. cat.)
Barbara A. MacAdam, "Varsari Diary: 'Urban Dreamers',"
Artnews, April, pp. 39-40
Paul D. Miller, "Tonic Boom," The Village Voice,
April 2, p. 72
"Gary Simmons," New Yorker, April 1, p. 21
Bernard Genies, "L'art au bout du fusil,"
Le Nouvel Observateur, April 4-10, pp. 128-130
Alissa Schoenfeld, "Gary Simmons" (review),
Critical Review, art review magazine on
Internet, April 1
David Colman, "Pretty on the Outside," George,
June, p. 117-118
Gary Simmons, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
(ex. cat.)
"Art as Idea," Scholastic Art, April/May, pp. 4-5
Leah Eskin, "Gone With the Wind," Chicago READER,
July 5, p. 1-37
Under Capricorn: Art in the Age of Globalization,
Stedelijk Museum, Eindhoven (ex. cat.)
Fragments, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
(ex. cat.)
Natacha Carron, "Gary Simmons - Philippe Rizzo"
(review), Flash Art, October, p. 118
Gregory Volk, "Gary Simmons at Metro Pictures"
(review), Art in America, October, p. 114
Martha Schwendener, "Catch My Drift," Time Out,
December 12-19, 1996, p. 40
Roberta Smith, "Finding Art in the Artifacts of
the Masses," The New York Times (Arts & Liesure),
December 1, PP. 43-44/46
Von Johanna Hofleitner, "Inclusion: Exclusion,"
Argus Media, Zurich, Switzerland, no. 1317,
October 16
Franklin Sirmans, "Steirischer Herbst '96:
Barfly Theory at the Show," Flash Art News,
December, pp. 38-39
Okwui Enwezor, "Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in
the Age of Global Migration and Postcolonialism,"
Frieze, March/April, pp. 89-90
Martin Prinzhorn, ""Inclusion/Exclusion,"
Texte zur Kunst, March, pp. 183-184
Andreas Spiegl,"Inclusion/exclusion," Springer,
April, pp. 57-59
Justin Hoffmann,"Inclusion/Exclusion," Kunstforum,
Feb-May, pp. 350-353
Von Frido Hutter,"Welt-Nachrichten," Kleine Zeitung,
Graz, September 21
Alexander Puhringer,"Inclusion/Exclusion," Noema, #43,
Dec/Jan '97, p. 104
Doris Krumpl, "Rand-Zonen und die Kunst der
Landsvermessung," Der Standard, September 29
Von Franz Niegelhell, "Kritik an der Ausgrenzung
als Kritik an der Kultur, Samstag,
September 21, p. 29
Martin Behr, "Erlebnisreiche Reise zu
postkolonialer Kunst," Salzburger
Nachrichten, September 29
Von Sabine Vogel, "Fernverbindungen,"
Erscheinungsdatum, September 25
Steirischer Herbst, "Geschuttelt,
Nicht Geruhrt," Falter Verlag, October 3,
p. 26
Von Johanna Hofleitner, "Postkolonialismus,
Ausgrenzung, arme Materialien," Die Presse,
September 30
Von Konrad Rudolf Lienert, "Wandern in Europa
und Anderswo," Tages-Anzeiger, October 8
Paul Gardner & Chris Maybach, Art City:
Making it in Manhattan (VHS, 58 mins)
"Eine neue Geografie de Macht," Steirerkrone,
September 24
1997 David Rimanelli, "A/Drift," Artforum International,
February 1997, p. 83
Gianmarco Del Re, "Imagined Communities," Flash Art,
Jan-Feb, p. 63
Nikos Papastergiadis, Annotations 1: Mixed
Belongings and Unspecified Destinations, 1996
M.Franklin Sirmans, "News: Gary Simmons," Flash Art,
May/June, p. 52
M.Franklin Sirmans, "Remixing the Art World: Art
in the Global Marketpace," Flash Art, May/June,
pp. 69-72
Nancy Princenthal, "Gary Simmons: Disappearing Acts,"
Art & Text, May-July pp.52-57
"Curve (Ghoster) & Oh My," New Observations,
No. 115, pp. 14-15
Francesco Bonami, "No Place Like Home," Flash Art,
Summer, p. 131
Paul Sherman, "ICA's Gothic Film Series is a
Frightfuly Good Time," Boston Herald, May 5
Gary Duehr, " 'Gothic' is Spooky: ICA Exhibit
Touches on Terror and Taboo," The TAB, May 6-12
Christopher Millis, "Gothic Lite: Few Chills or
Thrills in the ICA's Transmutations of Horror',"
The Boston Phoenix (Arts segment),
May 2, pp.10-11
Ken Schulman, "A Touch of Class," ARTnews, May, p. 87
"Dark Art at the ICA," The Boston Phoenix, April 18
Mary Sherman, "ICA Show Slakes First for Horror,"
Boston Herald, April 25
Christine Temin, "At ICA, Art that Goes Bump in the Night,"
The Boston Globe, April 25 (Arts segment)
Roberta Smith, "The Horror: Updating the Heart of Darkness,"
The New York Times (Arts segment), June 1
Verena Leken, "Oh, gruase dich, es ist so schon,"
Feuilleton, June 26
Anthony Vidler and Peter Wallen, Scene of the Crime,
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center,
Los Angeles, CA (ex. cat.)
Roxana Marcoci, Diana Murphy, Eve Sinaiko, New Art,
p. 122
Jeanne Siegel, Coming Home Again, Visual Arts Gallery,
New York (ex. cat.)
Paul Ardenne, "Art: L'Age Contemporain," Regard,
Paris, p. 183
Bernhard Fibicher Wall Drawings, Kunsthaus,
Zurich, Switzerland (ex. cat.)
A/Drift, edited by Joshua Decter, Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (ex. cat.)
1998 Gary Simmons, essay by Nancy Princenthal,
The Gallery of the Department of
Art & Art History, Dana Arts Center,
Colgate University (ex. broch.)
Kurt Hollander, "Import/Export: Crossover
Dreams," Art in America," May, pp. 46-51
Homi K. Bhabha, "The White Stuff," Artforum,
May, pp. 21-24
The Campaign Against Living Miserably,
essays by Teresa Gleadowe & Dale
McFarland, Royal College of Arts,
Lcndon (ex. cat.)
Postcards from Black America, Ed. by Rob Perée,
Hedendaagse Afrikans-Amerikaanse
Kunst, The Netherlands (ex. cat.)
David Pagel, "Too Close for Comfort,"
Los Angeles Times, June 5, p. F 25
Michael Darling, "Gary Simmons at Margo Leavin,"
LA Weekly, July 2, p. 58
Eric Fredericksen, "Drawing Lessons,"
The Stranger (Seattle), July 23, p. 25
Ron Updike, "Drawing on a Diverse Palette,"
Seattle Times, July 16 (Visual Arts Section)
Regina Hackett, "Drawing Invitational Reveals
Personal Taste," Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
July 22, p. F5
Claudine Isé, "Gary Simmons," Art Issues,
September/October, p. 44
Clayton Campbell, "Gary Simmons," Flash Art,
November/December, pp. 109-110
D.P. "German Artist's Abound in Chelsea,"
The Art Newspaper, London, #87, p. 60
Awards and Grants:
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant
1991 Penny McCall Foundation Grant
Museum Collections:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Peter Norton Family Foundation, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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