1964
Born in New York
1988
B.F.A. School of Visual Arts, New York
1990
M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California
Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Anthony Meier, San Francisco
House of Pain, Simon Lee, London
2006
1964, The Bohen Foundation, New York
2005
Diggin’ in the Crates, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
Metro Pictures Gallery, 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
Ghost House, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gary Simmons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; SITE, Santa Fe
New Mexico; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2001
Ghost House, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico
Desert Blizzard, Video Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2000
Wake (web exhibition), Dia Center, New York
Country Grammar, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Bench Makers, Musee d'Art Americain, Giverny, France
1999
Currents 80, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
1998
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
Wall Drawings, Kunsthaus, Zurich(Exh. cat.)
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis
Gary Simmons: Gazebo, Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego
Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stocholm
1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Boom, Bang!, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
1995
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Gary Simmons: Erasure Drawings, Lannan
Foundation, Los Angeles
The Contemporary, New York
1994
Directions: Gary Simmons, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1993
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
1992
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami
The Garden of Hate, Whitney Museum at
Philip Morris, New York
1991
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990
White Columns, New York
1989
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Selected Group Exhibitions
2001
One Planet under a Groove: Hip-Hop and contemporary Art, Bronx Museum, New York
I'm Thinking of a Place, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography, Museum of Contemporary
Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
2000
Point of Reference, Addison Gallery of
American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Art on the Line Comers Inside, Main Line Art Center, Haverford Pennsylvania
1999
Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Sightgags, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Shoes, Frederieke Taylor TZ'Art, New York
Rapture, Bakalar Gallery and Huntington
Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
Heaven, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Drawn by..., Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Billboard, Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Adams
At Century's End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1998
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Drawings... Second Annual Invitational,
Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle Cut on the Bias, Fabric Workshop and
Museum, Philadelphia
The Campaign against Living Miserably, Royal College of Arts, London
1997
Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Now on view II, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
No Small Feat, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
no place (like home), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
New York: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990 s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Gothic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Exh. cat.)
Drawings, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle
1996
Under Capricorn: Art in the Age of Globalization, Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam (Exh. cat) Inklusion, Exklusion: Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globaler
Migration, Graz, Austria (Exh. cat.)
Imagined Communities, Oldham Art Gallery, London
Getekend, Amerika! , MK Espositieruimte, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Exh. cat)
Fragments: Proposta per a una colleccio de fotografia contemporania,
Museo d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (Exh. cat)
Defining the 90s: Consensus Making in New York, Los Angels, and Miami,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami A/Drift, Center for Curatorial Studies,
Bard College, New York
1995
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
The Fabric Workshop / Museum,
Philadelphia (two-person exhibition with Glenn Ligon)
Configura 2- Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995 Erfurt, Germany (Exh. cat.)
1994
Urban Paradise: Gardens in the City, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
Summer Academy I, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Armand Hammer Gallery,
University of California at Los Angeles (Exh. cat.)
1993
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Exh. cat.)
Thread Waxing Space, New York
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and
Mainstream Criticism, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine (Exh.cat.)
Contacts Proofs, Jersey City Museum, N.J.
1992
Wall Drawings, The Drawing Center, New Yrok
Structural Damage, BlumHelman Warehouse, New York
Songs of Innocence / Songs of Experience,
Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
The Politic of Difference: Artists Explore Issues of Identity, University Art
Gallery, University of California, Riverside How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery,
New York
Dissent, Difference, and the Body Politic,Portland Art Museum, Ore.;
Otis Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles (Exh. cat.)
The Big Nothing or Le Presque Rien, New Museum of Contemporary Art and
French Cultural Services, New York
1991
The Subversive Stitch, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zu Politik und Identitat, Neue Gesellschaft fur
Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art, Grey Art Gallery,
New York University, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Madison Art Center, Wisc.;
Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio;
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, N.C. (Exh. cat.)
1990
Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit, New Museum of Contemporary
Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York
Official Language, San Francisco Art Institute Galleries
Earth, Krygier / Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, Calif.
All Quiet on the Western Front?, Espace de Dieu, Paris
1989
American Fine Arts, Co., New York Awards and Grants
1990
National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant
1991
Penny MaCall Foundation Grant Museum Collections
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Norton Family Foundation, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
