GARY SIMMONS

1964 Born in New York
Lives and works in New York
1988 Attended School of Visual Arts, New York, B.F.A.,
1990 The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

1991 Penny McCall Foundation Grant
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

 

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Peter Norton Family Foundation, California Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2000 "Wake", The Dia Center, New York, www.diacenter.org

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 “Gary Simmons : Smoke”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
“Night of the Fires”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
2007 “House of Pain”, Simon Lee Gallery, London
“Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco
2006 “1964”, The Bohen Foundation, New York
2005 “Diggin’ in the Crates,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 “Gary Simmons : Criminal Slang”,Metro Pictures, New York
2003 “Gary Simmons– Unique Drawings,” Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
“Wishing,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
“Gary Simmons,” Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2002 “Gary Simmons,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (cat.)
CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea (cat.)
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe
2001 “Ghost House,” SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (cat.)
“Wishful Drinking,” Metro Pictures, New York
“Desert Blizzard,” Video Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
2000 "Wake," (web exhibition) The Dia Center, www.diacenter.org, New York
“Bench Markers,” Musée D’Art Americain, Giverny, France (broch.)
“Country Grammar,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1999 "Currents 80," The Saint Louis Art Museum
1998 The Gallery of the Department of Art & Art History, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University (February 5-February 28, broch.)
Margo Leavin, Los Angeles
“Gary Simmons : The Forest for the Trees”, Metro Pictures, New York
1997 "Gary Simmons: Gazebo," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (February 9-May 7)
Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Wall Drawings," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (September 9-November 11, cat.)
1996 Metro Pictures, New York
"Boom, Bang!" Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (cat.)
1995 “Gary Simmons : Step in the Arena”, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (two-person exhibition with Glenn Ligon)
“Gary Simmons : Sound garden (Sound Drawing from the Garden of Faded Marketings), Metro Pictures, New York
The Contemporary, New York
"Gary Simmons: Erasure Drawings," Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles 
1994 "Directions: Gary Simmons," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. (broch.)
1993 Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
Metro Pictures, New York
1992
 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami
"The Garden of Hate," Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York (brochure)
1991 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Simon Watson Gallery, New York
1990 White Columns, New York
1989 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 NeoHooDoo : Art for a Forgotten Faith”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City
2007 "Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making," MoMA, New York City
“Sound Art Limo, Melbourne”, AC (Institute, Direct, Chapel), New York City
“Sound Art Limo, NY”, AC (Institute, Direct, Chapel), New York City
2006 “Wallpaper Lab,” curated by Ron Keyson, Lennon, Weinberg, INC., New York.
“Studio in the Park,” produced by BravinLee Programs, Riverside Park Fund, New York
“Champagne Fall,” The Armory Show, New York
2005 “Art Creates Communities Project,” More Art, Art Basel, Miami Beach
“Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970,” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
“Past, Presence, Childhood and Memory,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria
“Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“Strange Days”, Samuel P.Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville
“100 Artists See God”, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
“Group Show”, Metro Pictures gallery, New York City
“Monuments to the USA”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
“Personal Mythologies – Earlier, Recent and Future Acquisitions”, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu
2004 “Social Studies,” Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois (cat.)
“Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
“White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art,” Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore
“100 Artists See God”, ICA –Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London
“Social Studies”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence
2003 “Whiteness, A Wayward Construction,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
“Drawings,” Metro Pictures, New York
“Raid the Icebox,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
“One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Zeitgenössische Kunst,” Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
“Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“The Squared Circle”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Group Show”, Metro Pictures gallery, New York City
2002 “Group Show”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
“New York Renaissance– Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Palazzo Reale, Milan
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Primal Screams and Songs”, Museum of Contemporary Art – North Miami (MOCA), Miami
“Whiteness, A Wayward construction”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
“Group Show”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
2001 “Locating Drawing,” Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
“I’m Thinking of a Place,” UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“One Planet Under a Groove- Hip Hop and Contemporary Art,” Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography,” The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Au Rendez-Vous des Amis (La Ligne Seule) 2”, Mamco – Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
“Group Show”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
“MOCA – selection from the Permanent Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art – North Miami, Miami
“Contemporary Collectors XVI”, Museum of Contemporary art San Diego – MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla
2000 "Art on the Line Comes Inside," Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania
"Point of Reference," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
“Group Show”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
“State of the Art : recent Gifts and Acquisition”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1999 “Sightgags,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Drawn by...," Metro Pictures, New York
"Heaven," Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
"At Century's End," Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
"Billboard," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
"American Century," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Videodrome," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"Shoes," Frederieke Taylor TZ'Art, New York
"Rapture," Bakalar Gallery and Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
“Heads Up – Highlights from the Permanent Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art – North Miami (MOCA), Miami
“CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS XIV”, Museum of Contemporary Art san Diego – MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla
1998 "The Campaign Against Living Miserably," Royal College of Arts, London (cat.)
"Drawings...Second Annual Invitational," Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
“Cut on the Bias,” Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
“100 Years of Sculpture : From the Pedestal to the Pixel”, Walker Art center, Minneapolis
1997 "New York: Drawings Today," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (January 17-June 4)
"No Place (Like Home)," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Gothic," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
"Now on View II," Metro Pictures, New York City
"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 City
"Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
“inSite97,” Installation Gallery, San Diego, California
“Ne Dites Pas Non!”, Mamco – Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
“Group Show” Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
1996 "Imagined Communities," Oldham Art Gallery, London (traveling venues through 1997, 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 (cat.)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Getekend, Amerika!" MK Espositieruimte, Rotterdam, Netherlands (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, cat.)
"Fragments: Proposta per a una col.leccio de fotografia contemporania," Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (cat.)
"Inklusion, Exklusion: Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globaler Migration," Graz, Austria (September 22-October 26, cat.)
“The World Over : Art in the Age of Globalisation”, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
“Group Show”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City
1995 Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
"Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995," Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany (cat.)
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
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, Wisconsin
"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 (cat.)
1993 "1993 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Thread Waxing Space, New York City
"Contacts Proofs," Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
Metro Pictures, New York City
"The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism," Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
“Dissent Difference and the Body Politic”, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
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, Oregon; Otis Parsons School of Design (cat.)
"Wall Drawings," The Drawing Center, New York
1991 "Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art," Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin; Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (cat.)
"The Subversive Stitch," Simon Watson Gallery, New York
"Someone Or Somebody," Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zu Politik und Identitat," Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
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
1989 American Fine Arts, Co., New York