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

2011 Shine, Simon Lee Gallery, London
2010 Black Marquee, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Double Feature, SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
Midnight Matinee, Metro Pictures, New York
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, an 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, Saint Louis, Missouri
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,  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

2010 Singular Visions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2009 NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, Miami Art Museum, Miami
30 Seconds off an Inch, The Studio Museum, New York (2009-2010)
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
We’re all gonna die Part B, Number 35, New York
We’re all gonna die Part A, Number 35, New York
Nothingness and Being, Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Sites," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Reading Standing Up, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
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 , 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 ,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 Fancisco 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 Trial,  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