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.
Forthcoming Exhibitions:
2008
Metro Pictures, New York, June 12-July 31
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2007
Anthony Meier, San Francisco
“House of Pain”, Simon Lee Gallery, London
2006
“1964”, The Bohen Foundation, New York
2005
“Diggin’ in the Crates,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
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.)
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
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
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 (broch.)
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
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007
"Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making," MoMA, New York.
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 (cat.)
“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
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 (cat.)
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, München, Germany
“Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (cat.)
2002
Metro Pictures, New York
“New York Renaissance– Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Palazzo Reale, Milan (cat.)
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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
2000
"Art on the Line Comes Inside," Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania
"Point of Reference," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
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 (cat.)
"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 (cat.)
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
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 (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 (cat.)
"Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“inSite97,” Installation Gallery, San Diego, California (cat.)
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.)
1995
"Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995," Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany (cat.)
Metro Pictures, 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 (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 (cat.)
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
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