AWARDS and GRANTS
2011 PS 122 residency
2010 Percent for Art commission
2005 Art in General, New Commissions Program for Fine Art Adoption Network
2003 Yaddo residency fellowship
1992 Artists Space, curatorial grant
1991 Art Matters, Inc., fellowship
1989 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, fellowship
Art Matters, Inc., fellowship
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 ‘Pictures and Gestures’, Studio 10, Brooklyn
2011 ‘My Life in Pictures’, PS 122 gallery, NYC
2009 ‘Paintings and Prototypes’, Pocket Utopia, Bushwick, Brooklyn
2005 ‘Basic’ — art Moving, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2004 ‘Haliburton’ — artMoving Projects, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2004 Voorkammer, Lier, Belgium (2-person with David Wells)
2000 James Fuentes Temporary, NYC
1999 James Fuentes Gallery, NYC
1997 Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1994 White Columns (white room), NYC
1993 fiction/nonfiction (José Freire, director), NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 ‘20/20/2013’, Studio 10, Brooklyn
2013 Scope Art Fair, Collectico, NYC
2012 ‘Rick Briggs and Adam Simon’, Valentine, Brooklyn
2011 ‘Containment Policy’, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia
‘Bushwick Fresh Paint’, Deborah Brown curator, Standpipe Gallery, NYC
‘Pop Up Portraits’, Austin Thomas curator, Scot Cohen, Hudson, NY
2010 Ocketopia, Austin Thomas, curator, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC
2009 ‘Let’s Stay Together’, an evening of video, The Boiler, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
‘AVATAR’ (A Visual Artists’ Temporary Actor Replacement agency), collaborative project with theatre director, Marianne Weems, Momenta, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
‘Governors Island Art Fair’ Four Heads Collective, Governors Island, NYC
2008 ‘There’s No Place Like Utopia’ fivemyles gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
curated by Matt Freedman
2007 ‘Digital Political Time-Lapse’, Long Island University — Brooklyn, NY
‘Face’, ‘temporary Museum — Brooklyn, NY
2006 Diva Art Fair, art Moving Projects, Art Basel, Miami, Florida
Impermanent Collection, ‘temporary Museum — Brooklyn, NY
‘American Diaspora’, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
2005 artMoving Projects— Brooklyn, NY
1999 ‘Get Together’ (with Mike Ballou), Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
‘Photic 2’, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
‘Rage for Art’, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
1998 ‘Spelled Out’, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
1997 ‘Niemandsland’ —Liberty Exchange Project—(project with Mike Ballou under
the name Four Walls) at the Brenner Pass, Italy, curated by PTTRed
‘New Jersey Arts Annual’, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Berta Sischel and Joe Jacobs curators
‘Gramercy Art Fair’ (work exhibited at both Pierogi 2000 and White Columns)
1995 Update’,White Columns, NYC
‘Pittura Immedia’, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Kunstlerhaus - Graz, Austria, curated by Peter Weibel
‘Presence/Absence’, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
1994 'Mayfair Show', at American Fine Arts Gallery, NYC and the Mayfair Club,
1993 'Painting Invitational', Stux Gallery, NYC
'Invitational'—Rowles Studio, Hudson, NY - Bill Maynes curator
1992 'Sleeping with the Enemy/The Persistence of Dialects', Four Walls, Brooklyn
1991 'Art and Society - Face to Face', College of Notre Dame, Belmont, Ca.
'Caution Art!', Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Ma.
1990 'A Force of Repetition', New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
'Double Feature: Marcia Salo and Adam Simon', fiction/nonfiction, NYC
CURATORIAL
Founder in 2005, of the Fine Art Adoption Network, commissioned by Art in General, NYC. FAAN promotes the dissemination of artworks and the demographic expansion of art ownership through art adoption. The project is ongoing with over 320 participating artists and over 1800 registered adopters. It can be viewed at www.fineartadoption.net
Founder and co-director of Four Walls from1984 to1998, an artist-run forum/exhibition space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 1990. FW featured one-evening exhibitions including dialogue between participants and a viewing audience. Including: 1991; the Neurotic Art Show, open show (open to first 60 callers) with a panel of Lacanian psychoanalysts. 1992; Sleeping with the Enemy (the persistence of dialects), contemporary artists reshape the vernacular of modernism. the Joke Show, with a semiotician and a stand up comic, based on Freud’s ‘Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. 1994; the Jobs Show, open show of artifacts from artists’ day jobs, at Ronald Feldman gallery, NYC and again at Kunstverein, Munich, Germany in 1995.
Between 1997 and 2000, Four Walls Rambling Conversations , public conversations between pairs of artists. The conversations moved from gallery to gallery in NYC. Included Joyce Pensato, Nils Norman, Peter Fend, Rachel Harrison, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Paul Pfeiffer, Andrea Fraser, Dennis Openheim, Alix Perlstein, Brian Conley and William Pope L.
Four Walls exhibition-events also at White Columns (1988), Artists Space (1992) PS 1 (1992) and Ronald Feldman gallery(1995)(all in NYC) and at Kunstverein Munchen (Munich, Germany), the Vincent Leunges Institute (Oslo, Norway), Vienna Kunsthalle, Austria, and as participants in the project, ‘Niemandsland’ in the Brenner Pass (Italy). Four Walls featured in various publications including, Art News, The New York Times, Art (Germany), Documents and Zing.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009—collaboration with novelist Mathew Sharpe, for Bomb Magazine, summer issue
2005—Maine, Stephen, Art Net, ‘Dateline Brooklyn’
2004—Benjamin La Rocco, Brooklyn Rail
1999—‘Get Together’ Exhibition Catalogue (text in German)
1995—‘Pittura Immedia’ Exhibition Catalogue, edited by Peter Weibel, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum and Kunstlerhaus - Graz, Austria
1991—Nesbitt, Lois, 'Family Photographs' Woodstock Center for Photography Journal,
Cyphers, Peggy 'New York in Review', Arts Magazine, April, 1991
1990—Grundberg, Andy 'New Jerseyans Examine the Road to Uniqueness' NY Times, August 24, 1990, Zimmer, William , 'Repetition as a Theme', NY Times, September 9, Smith, Roberta, 'Heads', New York Times, January 9, 1990 p. C23.
For Fine Art Adoption Network:
BYOA (Bring Your Own Art), closing of X Initiative in NYC, 24-hour marathon in collaboration with FAAN
‘The Price of Everything, Perspectives on the Art Market, Whitney Museum of American Art at CUNY Graduate Center, exhibition catalogue, 5/2007.
‘Back Story: Adoption for Art Lovers, by Lee Lawrence, The Christian Science Monitor, A&E section, 1/4/2007, ‘Finding a Home for Art’ by Kate Taylor, New York Sun, Arts section, 6/1/2007, ‘A Site for the Adoption of Art’ by Chiara Stangalino, Italian Vogue, September, 2006
EDUCATION
Milton Avery Graduate Program/Bard College - MFA
Hunter College, NYC
The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, NYC