Judith Simonian
Born in Los Angeles, Ca. Resides in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000 Sideshow, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NewYork (tandem with Bob Witz)
1997-98 Spensieri Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (10 year painting survey)
1996 NY Kunsthalle, NYC, "Between Wuthering Heights", Video Hybrid Installation
1995 Sloan Art Gallery, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont
1994 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (7 solo exhibitions from 1982 to 1994)
1991 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago Illinois
1989 Jayne Baum, New York, NY
1986 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 Leila Taghinia-Milani, NY, NY
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1979 Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, "Bookworks"
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Barbara Levy Gallery, NY
Pierogi, Williamsburg, NY "Flatfiles" (1997-present)
2001 The Church of S. Maria Ausiliartrice, Venice Biennale, Italy, "Re:Duchamp":
("NY/Arts Magazine Collection" traveling exhibition)
Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY
2000 Kai Hilgermann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SideStreet Projects, Los Angeles, Ca.
Margaret Bodell Gallery, NYC, "Facts and Figures"
London Biennale, international festival of the Arts, London, UK, organized by David Medala
Freudian Center for Research and Analysis, London, UK, "Imaging The Wonderboard"
Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland, Emmanuel Heller, Tel Aviv, Israel, Kulture, Bahnhof, Germany
("NY/Arts Magazine Collection", traveling exhibition)
1999 Im n il, Greenpoint, NY, "Out of Y2k"
Richard Anderson, NYC, NY, "The Passion/Passions of Art"
1998 ChiMeat, Williamsburg, NY, "Drawings"
1997 Stamp, Williamsburg, NY "Dis’Place"
1996 FAO Gallery, NYC, NY, "If the Shoe Fits"
1995 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, NY, "Stand Up Straight", Artists’ Books
1994 St. Marks Position, NY, NY, "A Drawing Survey"
1992 The New Museum, NYC, NY, "The Art Mall" (Drawings and Plans for "Two Dressing Rooms")
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Ca, "Selections from the Permanent Collection"
1991 Jayne Baum Gallery, NYC, NY, "Group Exhibition"
The Art Museum, Florida Internat’l U., Miami, "American Art Today: The City" (catalog)
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, "Selections from Chemical Bank Collection" (catalog)
1988 Jayne Baum Gallery, NYC, NY, "Reconciling Modes"
1987 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA. "Passages: A Survey of California Women Artist
1986 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "A California Collection"
1986 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Landscape Elements"
1985 Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA, "Sixteen x Twenty-Six Landscapes"
1984 Leila Taghinia-Milani, NY, NY
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA, "First Newport Biennial-Los Angeles " (catalog)
(curator- Paul Schimmel)
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Olympiad-Summer 1984"
Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Boston, New York, Los Angeles"
1983 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA "Between the Freeways" (catalog)
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, "Five West Coast Artists of Armenian Ancestry" (catalog)
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Theatrical Expressionism"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Fresh Paint" (brochure)
American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Behavioral Patterns of Los Angeles Art Dealers"
1981 Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, Touring Exhibition, "Bookworks: New Approaches to Artists’ Books"
Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), CA, "On and Off Broadway"
Nelson Gallery of The Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO, "Bookworks"
1979 Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Visual and Sculptural Bookworks" (catalog)
LAICA, (Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art) CA, "Urban Alterations"
GRANTS AND COMPETITIONS
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant 2000
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mt. Lake, NY (1 month artists’ and writers’ residency fellowship) 1999
St. Michaels College, Colchester, VT (3 month residency fellowships) 1996 and 1997
Altos De Chavon, Artist-in-Residence program, Dominican Republic (3 month residency) 1990
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant 1987
MacArthur Park Public Art Program, ("Talking Pyramids", public sculpture) L.A., CA 1985
(Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts)
"Public Announcement/Private Conversations", Women’s Graphic Center, Los Angeles, CA
(National Endowment for the Arts, publication project grant)
California Confederation of The Arts, CETA grant, "Art in Public Places" (one year sponsorship)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
PS1 Contemporary Art Center/ Museum of Modern Art , NY ("Modern Excavation"-sandblasted wall installation)
Pfizer Inc., New York, NY
Gruenwald Collection, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
AMICO Library (Art Museum Image Consortium) http://www.amico.org
The Broad Art Foundation, Paris, France
The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, Ca
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
Carnation Company, Glendale, CA
Chemical Bank, NYC, NY
Community Redevelopment Agency, LA, CA
Robert Egelston, Capitol Group, LA, CA
Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, Palm Springs, CA, "Secret Speak" (site installation)
Los Angeles City Art Collection, MacArthur Park Public Art Program, "’Talking Pyramids" (sculpture)
Gemini GeL- Elise and Stanley Grinstein LA, CA
Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Newark -, NJ
Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Security Pacific Bank, NYC, NY
COMMISIONED INSTALLATIONS
1996 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, "Six Sculptors" (Sculpture Center, NY), "Talkin Trash"
1992 Carl Kay historical landmark building, "Antique Carpet", Hollywood, CA
1988 Creative Time "Art on the Beach", Hunter’s Point L.I.C., N.Y., "Villa San Itta"
1986 Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, Palm Springs, CA, "Secret Speak"
1985 MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, CA, MacArthur Park Public Art Program, "’Talking Pyramids"
1983 Construction site for the Century Freeway, Lynwood, CA "Transitional Use", (sponsored by
FAR/Foundation for Art Resources, Inc.) "Freeway Vessel"
1982 Exile Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Women in Exile"
1981 Washington Project for The Arts (WPA), Washington, D.C., "Streetworks",
Madison Art Center, Madison Wisconsin, "The New Art of Downtown Los Angeles"
Carpet-Tar Pit" (catalog)
1980 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, "Downtown L.A. in Santa Barbara", (site alteration) (catalog)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cotter, Holland, Weekend, "For Hikers Seeking Art, Brooklyn Is a Left Bank" NewYork Times, Dec. 15, 2000
Youens, Rachel, Brooklyn Rail, Issue 43-44 Dec/Jan 2000-2001
Nahas, Dominique, "Facts and Figures", Review Magazine, February 15, 2000
Reid, Calvin, Essay for New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, December 5, 1998
Cotter, Holland, "Sculpture Under The Sky", New York Times, August 26, 1994
Kandel, Susan, "Gender Gaze", Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1994
Frank, Peter, "Africano, Simonian, Wagner, Stockholder, LA. Weekly, June 2-13 1991
Curtis, Cathy, Gallery Reviews, Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1990
Mahoney, Robert, "Talking Buildings", New York Press, March 24, 1989
Mahoney, Robert, "Art on The Beach", ARTS Magazine, November I988
Brenson, Michael, "Outdoor Sculpture Reflects Struggle of Life in the City", New York Times, July 15, 1988
Knight, Christopher, "Painter Relocates Landscapes", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 13, 1988
Muchnic, Suzanne, "Galleries:Wilshire Center", Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1986
Clothier, Peter, "A Playground for Artists", Stroll (Magazine) Winter 1986
McMillin, Penelope, "MacArthur Park-Art Helps Paint A New Iamge", Los Angeles Times, November 4, l98
Drohojowska, Hunter, "Someone Left the Art Out In the Park", LA Herald Examiner, November 1, 1985
Norklun, Kathy (editor), Cover Photograph, Spectacle, number 3, 1985
Pincus, Robert L., "Art As Artifact", Flash Art, Summer 1985
Garris, Laurie, "The MacArthur Park Program", Arts and Architecture, July 1985
Pincus, Robert L., "Breathing Life into An Old Form", San Deigo Union, Sunday, April 28, 1985
Larsen, Susan C., "First Newport Biennial", ARTnews, February, 1985
Donahue, Marlena, Gallery Reviews, Los Angeles Times, December 7, 1984
Pincus, Robert L., "An Artist in Search for Dialogue", Los Angeles Times, November 28, 1984
Wilson, William, "It’s Neo-Ex Trick or Treat at Newport", Los Angeles Times, October 14, 1984
Knight, Christopher, "It’s Art, Plain and Simple at Newport", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 28, 1984
Shipper, Merle, "Neo-Expressionism, Judy Simonian", Images and Issues, November-December 1983
Rubin, David, "Art Reviews", Art in America, October 1983
Muchnic, Suzanne, Gallery Reviews, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1983
Drohojowsha, Hunter, "Transitional Use: A Suburban Exhibition", Arts and Architecture, V1#3
Knight, Christopher, "Los Angeles - Art on the Move", ARTnews, January 1983
Knight, Christopher, "Artworks That Fill A Corridor", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Sun. Sept. 19, 1983
Wilson, William, "Insecure Love-Or An Affair to Dismember", Los Angeles Times Calendar, Oct. 31, 1982
Albright, Thomas, "Fresh Paint", ARTnews, September, 1982
Muchnic, Suzanne, "Creativity Transforms Century Freeway Ruins", Los Angeles Times, September 4, 1982
Knight, Christopher, "Art That An Demands An Audience", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, August 15, 1982
Boettger, Susan, "Fresh Paint, New Fingerprints", San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, June 27, 1962
Wilson, William, Gallery Reviews, Los Angeles Times, Jan-15, 1982
Bonner, Kathleen, "Judy Simonian at Neil Ovsey Gallery", Images and Issues, Summer 1982
Miller, Elise, "Exhibit at SDSU Gallery Seeks to Broaden Definitions of Drawing", Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1981
Clothier, Peter, "Art At Large", Laica Joumal, October 1980
Ross, Richard, "Art At Large in Santa Barbara", Laica Journal, October 1980
EDUCATION
M.A. and B.A. from California
State University, Northridge, CA
