Taryn Simon is a multidisciplinary artist who has worked in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Her practice involves extensive research, resulting in projects guided by an interest in systems of categorisation and classification.
Read MoreSimon was born in 1975 in New York. She received a BA in 1997 from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Recent solo museum exhibitions include PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2003); Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2004); Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, Netherlands (2005); Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2006); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2006); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2006); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2007); Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (2008); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2009); Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2010); Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (2011); Tate Modern, London (2011, travelled to Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, through 2013); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2011); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (2012–2013); Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (2012); Helsinki Art Museum (2012); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2013); Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland (2014); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014); Le Point du Jour—Centre d’Art Editeur, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France (2015); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2016); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2016); Albertinum, Dresden (2016); Park Avenue Armory, New York (2016); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2016); George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York (2016); and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (2018). Simon’s work was included in the Gwangju Biennale (2008); Singapore Biennale (2011); Carnegie International (2013); Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2014); and 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2015). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography in 2001.
Simon’s work is featured in museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
Simon lives and works in New York.
Text courtesy Gagosian.