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Gary Simmons Biography 1964 Born in New York, NY Lives and works in New York, NY Education 1990 M. F. A., The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1988 B. F. A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Awards and Grants 1991 Penny McCall Foundation Grant 1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Interarts Grant Selected Solo Exhibitions 2007 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 2006 1964, The Bohen Foundation, New York 2005 'Diggin' in the Crates, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles 2004 Criminal Slang, Metro Pictures, New York, NY 2003 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Wishing, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Gary Simmons: Unique Drawings, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2002 Gary Simmons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York , NY 2001 Ghost House, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico Wishful Drinking, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Desert Blizzard, Video Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 2000 Wake, (web exhibition) The Dia Center, www.diacenter.org, New York, NY Bench Markers, MusŽe D'Art Americain, Giverny, France Country Grammar, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Currents 80, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO 1998 The Gallery of the Department of Art & Art History, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University Margo Leavin, Los Angeles, CA Metro Pictures, New York, NY 1997 Gary Simmons: Gazebo, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN Wall Drawings, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland 1996 Metro Pictures, New York, NY Boom, Bang! Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris 1995 The Fabric Workshop/Museum, Philadelphia, PA Metro Pictures, New York, NY The Contemporary, New York, NY Gary Simmons: Erasure Drawings, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Directions: Gary Simmons, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. 1993 Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris Metro Pictures, New York, NY 1992 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami, FL The Garden of Hate, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York, NY 1991 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY 1990 White Columns, New York, NY 1989 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Selected Group Exhibitons 2006 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 African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade (1990 - 2003) , The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, various venues, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Metro Pictures, New York, NY New York Renaissance: Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy 2001 Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX I'm Thinking of a Place, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL 2000 Art on the Line Comes Inside, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Point of Reference, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA 1999 Sightgags, Museum of Modern Art, New York Drawn by·, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Heaven, Kunsthalle, DŸsseldorf, Germany At Century's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL Billboard, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Shoes, Frederieke Taylor TZ'Art, New York, NY Rapture, Bakalar Gallery and Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art 1998 The Campaign Against Living Miserably, Royal College of Arts, London Drawings: Second Annual Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Cut on the Bias, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA 1997 New York: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art No Place (Like Home), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Gothic, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Now on View II, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Karl Blossfeldt, McCollum / Simmons, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada Drawings, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa No Small Feat, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Coming Home Again, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY inSite97, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA 1996 Imagined Communities, Oldham Art Gallery, London, England Defining the 90's: Consensus Making in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Under Capricorn: Art in the Age of Globalization, Stedelijk Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Getekend, Amerika! MK Espositieruimte, Rotterdam, Netherlands Aer 27 '96, Basel International Art Fair, Galerie Philippe Rizzo Metro Pictures, New York, NY Friedrich Petzel, New York, NY A/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, NY Fragments: Proposta per a una col.leccio de fotografia contemporania, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona Inklusion, Exklusion: Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globaler Migration, Graz, Austria 1995 Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995, Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany Metro Pictures, New York 1994 Urban Paradise: Gardens in the City, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, NY Metro Pictures, New York Lousy Fear, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Labor and Leisure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Summer Academy I, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York , NY Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Armond Hammer Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, CA 1993 1993 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY Contacts Proofs, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey Metro Pictures, New York, NY The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA 1992 Structural Damage, BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY A Paper Trail, Berland/Hall, New York, NY The Politics of Difference: Artists Explore Issues of Identity, University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA The Big Nothing or Le Presque Rien, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and French Cultural Services, New York, NY How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY Back Talk, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY Dissent, Difference, and the Body Politic, Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Otis Parsons School of Design Wall Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 1991 Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC 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, Germany 1990 Earth, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA Membership Has Its Privileges, Lang & O'Hara, New York, NY Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit, New Museum of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY All Quiet on the Western Front? Espace de Dieu, Paris, France Official Language, San Francisco Art Institute Galleries, San Francisco, CA Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY 1989 American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY Selected Collections
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