| 2007 |
Sherwin, “Eraserhead: Gary Simmons”, Art Review, May 2007, pp. 34. |
| 2006 |
Eleanor Heartney, “Gary Simmons at the Bohen Foundation,” Art in America, October 2006, pp.188
Micaela Martegani, “Gary Simmons,” Tema Celeste, September / October, pp. 78
Holland Cotter, “Experience Matters: Creators in Midcareer and Beyond,” The New York Times, April 21, E31, E39
“Gary Simmons: ‘1964’,” Time Out New York, April 13-19, pp. 80
Holland Cotter, “The World Tour Rolls into Town, Sprawling but Tidy,” The New York Times, March 10, pp. E29, E41
Sarah Douglas,“Staying Power”, Art + Auction, November 2006, pp. 161 - 167 |
| 2005 |
Richard Wright, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch BukAmerica, Los
Angeles, cover illustration
Elisabeth Sussman, “Then and Now: Whitney Biennial 1993,” Art Journal, Spring, pp. 74-79
Lauren Stakias, “The Beginning is the Word,” ArtReview, May 2005, p. 29
Jordan Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 143.
Castello Di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli Publishing, Milan, pp. 291
Gary Simmons, “We’re Going Back: Gary Simmons talks with Rob Swift and Greg Tate,” Yard, ed. Ellen Ross, London Terrace Station, New York pp. 34-41 |
| 2004 |
Rubell Family Collection – Not Afraid, Mark Coetzee, Phaidon Press Limited, New York, pp. 185
Black is a Color, Elvan Zabunyan, Éditionas Dis voir, Paris, pp. 79-80 |
| 2003 |
Merrily Kerr, “Gary Simmons– If These Walls Could Talk,” Flash Art, January/ February, pp.98-100
David Ebony, “Gary Simmons at the Studio Museum in Harlem,” Art in America, June, pp. 116
Clayton Campbell, “The Last White Art Show,” Flash Art, October, pp. 59-61 |
| 2002 |
Photography Transformed, essay by Klaus Kertess, Harry N. Abrams, New York, pp. 192, 253
Gary Simmons, essays by Maurice Breger & Thelma Golden, interview by Franklin Sirmans, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Every Day, Every Where¬- Global Perspectives on Popular Culture, Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg, McGraw Hill, Boston, pp. 449
Tracey Hummer, “The Persistence of Memory,” Smock, New York, Winter, pp. 52-3
Margaret Hawkins, “Chalk One Up For Simmons,” Chicago Sun-Times, February 10
Alan G. Artner, “Memory of Now,” Chicago Tribune, February 21, pp. 3
Derek Ming-Wong, “Erasure and Expansion at the MCA,” Chicago Weekly News, February 21
Alice Thorson, “Simmons: Unerasable Impact,” The Kansas City Star, March 3, K-1, 4
Ytasha Womack, “Gary Simmons Erasure Art Featured at MCA,” Chicago Daily Defender, March 9
Fred Camper, “Pushing Back,” Chicago Reader, March 29
New York Renaissance– Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art, Palazzo Reale, Milan, pp. 174
Sarah Douglas, "Gary Simmons: Site Santa Fe," The Art Newspaper (What's On), June, pp. 8
Judith Russi Kirshner, "Gary Simmons– Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago," Artforum, Summer, pp. 170
Lynn Cline, "The Fleeting Work of Gary Simmons," Pasatiempo, New Mexico, June 21-7, pp. 34-6
“Chalk Show,” New York Magazine, September 9, pp. 68
Edith Newhall, “Chalk Talk,” New York Magazine, October 14, pp. 109
Margaret Sundell, “Return Engagement,” Time Out New York, October 24-31, pp. 66-7
Sarah Valdez, “Gallery- Gary Simmons,” Paper Magazine (PM), November, pp. 12
“Studio Museum in Harlem,” The New Yorker, November 11, pp. 38
Martha Schwendener, “New York Critics’ Picks– Gary Simmons,” Artforum.com, November
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, pp. 112-3, 135
Priya Bhatnagar, “Focus Painting- Gary Simmons,” Flash Art, November-December, pp. 88
Gary Simmons, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
New Material as New Media, Marion Boulton Stroud, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, pp. 98-105, 260-3 |
| 2001 |
Jody Zellen, “Reviews: Los Angeles,” Art Papers, March/April, pp. 52-3
Morgan Lee, “Art House,” Albuquerque Journal, May 14, pp. 1,3
Franklin Sirmans, “The No-Tech Way Toward Art- Making,” The New York Times, September 2, pp. AR 27
Adrian Dannatt, “Black Conceptualist Month,” The Art Newspaper, September, pp. 78
Christopher Knight, “Simmons: Emotions Emerging in Art,” The Los Angeles Times, September 28, pp. F1, F18
Frances Richard, “Preview Spring 2002– Gary Simmons,” Artforum, January, pp. 46
Katherine Stone, “On Digital Art,” ArtisSpectrum, volume 10, pp. 15-9
Ghost House, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
American Visionaries, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, pp. 281
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, pp. 112-3, 135
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| 2000 |
Jessica Kerwin, "The Digital Camera," W Magazine, May, pp. 196
Dena Shottenkirk, "Four on the Floor," International Contemporary Art, issue #66 summer, pp. 44
Rapture, Bakalar Gallery and Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
Giverny Garden Projects, Musée D’Art Americain, Giverny, France
Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA Since 1980, Kirk Varnedoe, Paola Antonelli, Joshua Siegel (ed.), Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 470
“An Artists’ Community Opens Its Doors This Weekend,” The Boston Globe, October 18
Glenn Ligon and Gary Simmons, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
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| 1999 |
George Baker, "Gary Simmons: Metro Pictures", Artforum, March, pp. 113
Moustafa Bayoumi, "Intellectual Spectacle", Borderlines, No. 48, pp. 12-5
David Frankel, "Billboard," Artforum, May, pp. 59
The American Century: 1950-2000, by Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museum of American Art, pp. 339
Currents 80, ed by Rochelle Steiner, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Byron Kerman,"Space Explorer," The Riverfront Times, Dec. 8-14, pp. 27
Simon Watson, "Laura Says," Artnet.com, 12/3/99
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| 1998 |
Gary Simmons, essay by Nancy Princenthal, The Gallery of the Department of Art & Art History, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University
Kurt Hollander, "Import/Export: Crossover Dreams," Art in America," May, pp. 46-51
Homi K. Bhabha, "The White Stuff," Artforum, May, pp. 21-4
The Campaign Against Living Miserably, essays by Teresa Gleadowe & Dale McFarland, Royal College of Arts, London
Postcards from Black America, ed. by Rob Perée, Hedendaagse Afrikans-Amerikaanse Kunst, The Netherlands (cat.)
Russell Ferguson, "Tomato Cans", Visual Arts and Culture, June, pp. 2-13
David Pagel, "Too Close for Comfort," Los Angeles Times, June 5, pp. F 25
Michael Darling, "Gary Simmons at Margo Leavin," LA Weekly, July 2, pp. 58
Eric Fredericksen, "Drawing Lessons," The Stranger (Seattle), July 23, pp. 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, pp. F5
Claudine Isé, "Gary Simmons," Art Issues, September/October, pp. 44
Clayton Campbell, "Gary Simmons," Flash Art, November/December, pp. 109-10
D.P. "German Artist's Abound in Chelsea," The Art Newspaper, London, #87, pp. 60
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| 1997 |
David Rimanelli, "A/Drift," Artforum International, February 1997, pp. 83
Gianmarco Del Re, "Imagined Communities," Flash Art, Jan-Feb, pp. 63
Nikos Papastergiadis, Annotations 1: Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations, 1996
M.Franklin Sirmans, "News: Gary Simmons," Flash Art, May/June, pp. 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. 52-7
"Curve (Ghoster) & Oh My," New Observations, No. 115, pp. 14-5
Francesco Bonami, "No Place Like Home," Flash Art, Summer, pp. 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. 10-1
Ken Schulman, "A Touch of Class," ARTnews, May, pp. 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
Scene of the Crime, Anthony Vidler and Peter Wallen, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
Roxana Marcoci, Diana Murphy, Eve Sinaiko, New Art, pp. 122
Coming Home Again, Jeanne Siegel, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Paul Ardenne, "Art: L'Âge Contemporain," Regard, Paris, pp. 183
Wall Drawings, Bernhard Fibicher, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
A/Drift, edited by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Insite97: Private Time In Public Space, essays by Susan Buck-Morss, Néster García Canclini, George E. Lewis, José Manuel Valenzuela Arce, Installation Gallery, San Diego, California, pp. 150-1, cover illustration
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| 1996 |
Imagined Communities, introduction by Richard Hylton and text by Kobena Mercer, Oldham Art Gallery, London
Piers Masterson, "Imagined Communities," Art Monthly, March, pp. 33-5
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, pp. 49
Iain Gale, "Full of Sound and Fury Signifying," Scotland on Sunday, January 26, pp. 14
Georgina Palffy, "Imagined Communities," What's On (UK), September 25
Claire Lofting, "Society Portraits," Blueprint (UK), March, pp. 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, pp. 3
Pepe Karmel, "Gary Simmons" (review), The New York Times, March 22, pp. C27
"MK Expositieruimte: Getekend, Amerika!," Rotterdam On Line, tekenen/ drawing '96, pp. 53
Barbara A. MacAdam, "Varsari Diary: 'Urban Dreamers'," Artnews, April, pp. 39-40
Paul D. Miller, "Tonic Boom," The Village Voice, April 2, pp. 72
"Gary Simmons," New Yorker, April 1, pp. 21
Bernard Genies, "L'art au bout du fusil," Le Nouvel Observateur, April 4-10, pp. 128-30
Alissa Schoenfeld, "Gary Simmons" (review), Critical Review, art review magazine on Internet, April 1
David Colman, "Pretty on the Outside," George, June, pp. 117-8
Gary Simmons, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
"Art as Idea," Scholastic Art, April/May, pp. 4-5
Leah Eskin, "Gone With the Wind," Chicago READER, July 5, pp. 1-37
Under Capricorn: Art in the Age of Globalization, Stedelijk Museum, Eindhoven
Fragments, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona
Natacha Carron, "Gary Simmons - Philippe Rizzo" (review), Flash Art, October, pp. 118
Gregory Volk, "Gary Simmons at Metro Pictures" (review), Art in America, October, pp. 114
Martha Schwendener, "Catch My Drift," Time Out, December 12-19, 1996, pp. 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. 183-4
Andreas Spiegl,"Inclusion/exclusion," Springer, April, pp. 57-9
Justin Hoffmann,"Inclusion/Exclusion," Kunstforum, Feb-May, pp. 350-3
Von Frido Hutter,"Welt-Nachrichten," Kleine Zeitung, Graz, September 21
Alexander Puhringer,"Inclusion/Exclusion," Noema, # 43, Dec/Jan '97, pp. 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, pp. 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, pp. 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
Art City: Making it in Manhattan, (video)Paul Gardner & Chris Maybach, (VHS, 58 mins)
"Eine neue Geografie de Macht," Steirerkrone, September 24 |
| 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, pp. 112
Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995, Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany
Edith Newhall, "Installation: Now Growing in SoHo," New York Magazine, May 1
Thomas Hoving, "Art for the Ages," Cigar Aficionado, Summer, pp. 214-26
Tom Eccles, "Gary Simmons at The Contemporary and Metro Pictures," Art in America, July, pp. 83-4
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
"More Reduction & Erasure at Lannan (But it's not what you think...)," Flash Art News, Flash Art, November-December, pp. 41
Rosanna Albertini, "Gary Simmons - Lannan Foundation," Art Press, #208, December, pp. 76
Ralph Rugoff, "Best & Worst 1995," Artforum, December, pp. 67
Andrew Perchuk, "Gary Simmons - Lannan Foundation," Artforum, December, pp. 94-5
Christopher Knight, "Art: Canvassing the Year of Brilliance," Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, December 31, pp. 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) |
| 1994 |
Jan Avgikos, "Gary Simmons at Metro Pictures," Artforum, January, pp. 87 Deidre Stein, "The Multiple Multiplies," Artnews, May, pp. 85-6
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
Peter Plagens and Ellis Cose, "Black Like Whom?" Newsweek, November 14, pp. 64-7
Paul Gardner, "Light, Canvas, Action: When Artists Go to the Movies," Artnews, December, pp. 124-9
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. |
| 1993 |
Gene Ray, "Gary Simmons," Flash Art, January/February, pp. 94
Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, introduction by Simon Watson, essay by John Weber, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Matthias Matussek, "Kunst als Schauprozess," Der Spiegel, April 12, pp. 228-32
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
Holland Cotter, "Gary Simmons: Metro Pictures," The New York Times, October 8, pp. C30John
Brumfield, "Marginalia: Life in a Day of Black L.A. or, The Theater of Refusal," Art Issues, No. 29, September/October, pp. 24-7
Jean Charles Agboton-Jumeau, "Gary Simmons and M. Franklin Sirmans at Galerie Rizzo," Forum International, October/November, pp. 133
Amei Wallach, "Art with an Attitude," New York Newsday, March 5, pp. 52-3
Deborah Solomon, "A Showcase for Political Correctness," The Wall Street Journal, March 5, pp. A7
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
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 |
| 1992 |
Yasmin Ramiriz, "Gary Simmons," Art in America, December, pp. 116
Gary Simmons: The Garden of Hate, interview by Thelma Golden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Edge of Childhood, essays by Barbara Coller, Donald Kuspit, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York |
| 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, pp. 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
Lawrence Gipe, "Gary Simmons," Flash Art, October, pp. 142
Susan Kendal, "LA in Review," Arts Magazine, October, pp. 103
Robert Mahony: "New York in Review," Arts Magazine, March, pp. 94
Lois Nesbitt, "Interogating Identity," Artforum, Summer, pp. 115 |
| 1990 |
Michael Anderson, "Gary Simmons," Art Issues, March/April, pp. 23
Colin Gardner, "Gary Simmons," Artforum, March, pp. 169
Doug Ischar, "Articulating Subjectivity," Artweek, January 18, pp. 11 |
| 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 |