Gary Simmons

(American, born 1964)

purple haze by gary simmons

Gary Simmons

Purple Haze, 2013

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hollywood by gary simmons

Gary Simmons

Hollywood, 2013

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sabatini liquor torch by gary simmons

Gary Simmons

Sabatini Liquor Torch, 2013

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untitled (schmelling/louis) by gary simmons

Gary Simmons

Untitled (Schmelling/Louis), 2013

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untitled (liston/williams) by gary simmons

Gary Simmons

Untitled (Liston/Williams), 2013

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Biography

Timeline

1964
Born in New York; Lives and works in New York
1988
School of Visual Arts, NY, B.F.A.
1990
The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A.
National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant
1991
Penny McCall Foundation Grant

Exhibitions

2015
All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale
The Past, The Present, The Possible, Sharjah Biennale 12, United Arab Emirates
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2014
Gary Simmons: Fight Night, Metro Pictures, New York, NY (solo)
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL (solo)
Extant Phantoms, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore (solo)Made by Brazilians, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo
Encountering the City: The Urban Experience in Contemporary Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Black Eye, Concept NV, New York, NY
Prospect 3: Notes for Now, Prospect International Contemporary Art Biennial, New Orleans, LA
Drawn to Language, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2013
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (2013-2014) (solo)
Gary Simmons, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
The Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
Blackboard: Teaching and Learning from Art, Artipelag, Värdmö, Sweden
Painting in Place, LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY
Merci Mercy, Vladimir Restoration Roitfeld, New York, NY
2012
Metro Pictures, New York, NY (solo)
I Wish It Could Be Morning All Day Long, commissioned billboard, Art Public at Art Basel Miami Beach (solo)
After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, 262 Bowery, New York, NY (solo)
Double Feature, SAKS, Geneva (solo)
Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Thenceforward, and Forever Free, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwakee,WI
2011
Shine, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK (solo)
The American Art: Masterpieces from the Whitney, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, Washington, DC
Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2010
Midnight Matinee, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US (solo)
Black Marquee, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Double Feature, SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
Singular Visions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Nothingness and Being, The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico

Public Collections

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