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Gary Simmons
Born April 14, 1964, New York; lives and works in New York.
Attended School of Visual Arts, New York, B.F.A., 1988;
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A., 1990
Selected One-person Exhibitions:
| 2011 | Simon Lee Gallery, London |
| 2010 | "Black Marquee," Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco "Double Feature," SAKS, Geneva "Midnight Matinee," Metro Pictures, New York |
| 2008 | "Crawling Along the Edge of a Straight Razor," CAIS Gallery, Seoul/Hong Kong (cat.) "Smoke," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles "Night of the Fires" Metro Pictures, New York |
| 2007 | Anthony Meier, San Francisco "House of Pain," Simon Lee Gallery, London |
| 2006 | "1964", The Bohen Foundation, New York |
| 2004 | "Criminal Slang," Metro Pictures, New York |
| 2003 | "Gary Simmons- Unique Drawings," Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri "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.) Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco |
| 2001 | "Ghost House," (site-specific installation) SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (cat.) "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.) |
| 1999 | "Currents 80," The Saint Louis Art Museum |
| 1997 | "Gary Simmons: Gazebo," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis "Wall Drawings," Kunsthaus, Zurich (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 (cat.) |
| 1992 | Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami "The Garden of Hate," Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York (brochure) Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica |
| 1990 | White Columns, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions:top 
| 2010 | "Singular Visions," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 2009 | "The Foundation of Contemporary Arts Benefit Show," Lehmann Maupin, New York "NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith," Miami Art Museum, Miami "30 Seconds off an Inch," The Studio Museum, New York (2009-2010) (cat.) "Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles "Nothingness and Being," The Jumex Collection, Mexico City "Sites," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 2008 | "An Unruly History of the Readymade," The Jumex Collection, Mexico City (2008-2009) (cat.) "The Station," Midblock East, Miami "30 Americans," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008-2009) (cat.) Gwangju Biennale, Korea "NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith," The Menil Collection, Houston |
| 2007 | "For the Love of the Game, Race and Sport in America," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford "Collected Identities: Gifts from the Blake Byrne Collection," Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina "Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making," The Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.) |
| 2006 | "Fifth Interpretation of the Collection," La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico (cat.) "The Constant Possibility of Erasure," Dorsky Gallery, New York. "Studio in the Park," produced by BravinLee Programs, Riverside Park Fund, New York |
| 2005 | "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.) "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 "Raid the Icebox," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles "Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (cat.) |
| 2002 | "New York Renaissance- Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art," Palazzo Reale, Milan (cat.) |
| 2001 | "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 "At Century's End," Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida "Billboard," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams "Heaven," Kunsthalle, DŸsseldorf "American Century," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Videodrome," New Museum of Contempoary Art, New York "Shoes," Frederieke Taylor TZ'Art, New York "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, 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 "No Place (Like Home)," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota "Gothic," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (cat.) "Drawings," Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, Washington "Trade Routes: History and Geography," 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa "No Small Feat," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago "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, The Netherlands (cat.) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Getekend, Amerika!" MK Espositieruimte, Rotterdam (cat.) "A/drift," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York "Fragments: Proposta per a una col.leccio de fotografia contemporania," Museo d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (cat.) "Inklusion, Exklusion: Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globaler Migration," Graz, Austria (cat.) |
| 1995 | "Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995," Erfurt, Germany (cat.) |
| 1994 | "Urban Paradise: Gardens in the City," Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York Metro Pictures, New York (and 2003) "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 | "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.) Thread Waxing Space, New York "Contacts Proofs," Jersey City Museum, New Jersey "The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism," Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine (cat.) |
| 1992 | "Structural Damage," BlumHelman Warehouse, 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 "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, New York University, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; 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 "Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zu Politik und Identitat," Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin |
| 1990 | "Earth," Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica "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 |
Selected Bibliography:top
| 2009 | Christian Rattemeyer, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 254 Charles Wylie, "Words and Images," Dallas Cowboys Star Gameday, November 1, pp. 147-148 30 Seconds off an Inch, The Studio Museum, Harlem, pp. 49 |
| 2008 | 30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection and D.A.P., New York, pp. 138-143 "It Was All A Blur," V Magazine, Winter, #56, pp. 55 Joshua Decter, "Gary Simmons: Metro Pictures," Artforum, December, pp. 297-298 Christopher Knight, "Behind Smoke,' Fiery Messages," The Los Angeles Times, November 7, pp. E18 Crawling Along the Edge of a Straight Razor, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, pp. 53 An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundaci—n Jumex, Mexico City |
| 2007 | Museum of Modern Art: Highlights Since 1980, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York, pp. 156 Kenneth Baker, "An Aesthetic Appreciation of quarries," The San Francisco Chronicle, October 6 Cheryl R. Riley, "Gary Simmons: The Art of Erasure," Ebony, April, pp. 108-112 Roberta Smith, "Visions That Flaunt Cartoon Pedigrees," The New York Times, March 2, Section E, pp. 27, 34 Roxana Marcoci, Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 108-113 |
| 2006 | Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colecci—n Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico, pp. 233, 250, 256 Sarah Douglas, "Staying Power," Art + Auction, November, pp. 160-167 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 " CONTACT _Con-44254E907 \c \s \l Gary Simmons: 1964'," CONTACT _Con-44254E9024 \c \s \l Time Out New York, April 13-19, pp. 80 |
| 2005 | Johanna Drucker, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, The University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, pp. 112-124 Elisabeth Sussman, "Then and Now: Whitney Biennial 1993," Art Journal, Spring, pp. 74-79 Jordan Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 143 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 Leah Ollman, "Around the Galleries: Art that's fresh from the icebox," Los Angeles Times, 4 April, pp. E 27 (illus.) Oz McGuire, "Disintegrating Icons," Kansas City Previews, Kansas City, Missouri, April / May, pp. 100 David Ebony, "Gary Simmons at the Studio Museum in Harlem," Art in America, June, pp. 116 |
| 2002 | Thelma Goldin, "Diary," Slate, February 20 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 Tracey Hummer, "The Persistence of Memory," Smock, New York, Winter, pp. 52-3 Alan G. Artner, "Memory of Now," Chicago Tribune, February 21, pp. 3 New York Renaissance - Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art, Palazzo Reale, Milan, pp. 174 Judith Russi Kirshner, "Gary Simmons - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago," Artforum, Summer, pp. 170 Sarah Douglas, "Gary Simmons: Site Santa Fe," The Art Newspaper (What's On), June, pp. 8 Lynn Cline, "The Fleeting Work of Gary Simmons," Pasatiempo, New Mexico, June 21-7, pp. 34-6 Grace Glueck, "For Wall Street's Sake: Art to Lure Visitors Downtown," The New York Times, June 14, pp. E37 Margaret Sundell, "Return Engagement," Time Out New York, October 24-31, pp. 66-7 Mark Stevens, "Gray Matters," New York Magazine, October 28, pp. 83 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 Barbara Pollack, "Gary Simmons," ARTnews, December, pp. 116 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 Ghost House, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico American Visionaries, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, pp. 281 |
| 2000 | 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 Glenn Ligon and Gary Simmons, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia |
| 1999 | George Baker, "Gary Simmons: Metro Pictures", Artforum, March, pp. 113 Moustafa Bayoumi, "Intellectual Spectacle", Borderlines, No. 48, pp. 12-5 Insite97: Private Time In Public Space, essays by Susan Buck-Morss, Néster Garc’a Canclini, George E. Lewis, José Manuel Valenzuela Arce, Insite97, San Diego/Tijuana 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 |
| 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, Lcndon Postcards from Black America, Ed. by Rob Perée, Hedendaagse Afrikans-Amerikaanse Kunst, The Netherlands 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) Claudine Isé, "Gary Simmons," Art Issues, September/October, pp. 44 |
| 1997 | David Rimanelli, "A/Drift," Artforum International, February 1997, pp. 83 Gianmarco Del Re, "Imagined Communities," Flash Art, Jan-Feb, pp. 63 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 Roberta Smith, "The Horror: Updating the Heart of Darkness," The New York Times (Arts segment), June 1 Anthony Vidler and Peter Wallen, Scene of the Crime, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California Jeanne Siegel, Coming Home Again, Visual Arts Gallery, New York Paul Ardenne, "Art: L'åge Contemporain," Regard, Paris, pp. 183 Bernhard Fibicher Wall Drawings, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Insite97: Private Time In Public Space, essays by Susan Buck-Morss, Néster Garc’a Canclini, George E. Lewis, José Manuel Valenzuela Arce, Installation Gallery, San Diego, California, pp. 150-1, cover illustration |
| 1996 | 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 "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 David Colman, "Pretty on the Outside," George, June, pp. 117-8 Gary Simmons, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (cat.) Leah Eskin, "Gone With the Wind," Chicago READER, July 5, pp. 1-37 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 & Leisure), December 1, PP. 43-4/46 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 Justin Hoffmann,"Inclusion/Exclusion," Kunstforum, Feb-May, pp. 350-3 Alexander Puhringer,"Inclusion/Exclusion," Noema, # 43, Dec/Jan '97, pp. 104 Doris Krumpl, "Rand-Zonen und die Kunst der Landsvermessung," Der Standard, September 29 Paul Gardner & Chris Maybach, Art City: Making it in Manhattan (VHS, 58 mins) |
| 1995 | Greg Tate, "Start Black-Owned Conceptual Bomber," Vibe, February Linda Nochlin, "Learning from 'Black Male'," Art in America, Mar., 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 Edith Newhall, "Installation: Now Growing in SoHo," New York Magazine, May 1 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 Flash Art News, "More Reduction & Erasure at Lannan (But it's not what you think...)," 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 |
| 1994 | Jan Avgikos, "Gary Simmons at Metro Pictures," Artforum, January, pp. 87 Deidre Stein, "The Multiple Multiplies," Artnews, May, pp. 85-6 Peter Plagens and Ellis Cose, "Black Like Whom?" Newsweek, Nov. 14, pp. 64-7 Bonnie Clearwater, "Arrested Childhood," Art Press, Dec., 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 Holland Cotter, "Gary Simmons: Metro Pictures," The New York Times, October 8, pp. C30 John 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 Roberta Smith, "A Whitney Biennial with a Social Conscience," The New York Times, March 5, pp. C1 and C27 |
| 1992 | 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, "Interrogating Identity," The New York Times, March 17 Lawrence Gipe, "Gary Simmons," Flash Art, October, pp. 142 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
Kim Levin, "Critics Pick," The Village Voice, Summer Issue |
Awards and Grantstop
| 2007 | USA Gund Fellowship |
| 1991 | Penny McCall Foundation Grant |
| 1990 | National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant |
Museum Collections:top
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Baltimore Museum of Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York
Jumex Collection, Mexico City
The Miami Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Norton Family Foundation, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
The Rubell Collection, Miami
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Studio Museum Harlem, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York