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    • Judith Simonian lives and works in New York City where she was a recent recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant.
    She was born in Los Angeles, California and received her M.A. and B.A. from California State University, Northridge. Her work has been reviewed in Flash Art, Art in America, ART News, Arts Magazine, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ArtCrital.com, Brooklyn Rail, SanFrancisco Chronicle and numerous other publications.

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    Upcoming              Jancar Gallery , L.A., California
        Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY

    2006   Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, "Chronic Civilization", Brooklyn, NY

    2003   Eyewash@Girdle Factory, "Web of The Map" Williamsburg, New York
    2001   Sloan Art   Gallery, Colchester, VT "Wet"

    2000 Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY , Collage/Painting Portraits
      Kai Hilgerman Gallery, Berlin, Germany

    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

     

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
    2007   Sideshow   Gallery , "The War Is Over Part II"
        Antique, NYC, "Art Crimes"

    2006   Weatherspoon Art Museum "Art on Paper, Biennial " Greensboro, NC (catalogue)
    Sideshow   Gallery , Williamsburg, NY "The War Is Over"
    Phatory Gallery     , NYC, NY

    2005   Islip Museum, Long Island, NY "The Nature of Things"
        Anita S. Wooten Gallery,   Orlando, Florida "Intimate Abstraction (catalogue)
        Islip Museum ,   "Drawing Conclusions", East Islip, NY
        Kerrigan Campbell Gallery, NYC, NY "Home for The Holidays"
        P.S.122 at Capitol, NYC, NY "RAVE"
        www.TheTateChelsea.com "W I N T E R V I E W"
        Sideshow Gallery, "Share" Williamsburg, NY
    2003   Germaine Keller, Garrison NY
    2002

    		   Barbara Levy Gallery, New York
    Cooper Union, Grand Hall Gallery, NY, NY

    2001   The Church   of S. Maria Ausiliartrice, Venice Biennale, Italy, "Re:Duchamp": "NY/Arts Magazine Collection" Traveling Exhibition
    Sideshow , Williamsburg, NY, "21 st Suffragettes"
    Sloan Gallery,     Colchester, VT
    Germaine Keller Gallery , Garrison, NY  
    Pierogi,     Williamsburg,   NY "Flatfiles" (1997-2001)

    2000   Side Street   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" , curated by Koan Jeff Baysa
    Artists' Museum , Lodz, Poland, Emmanuel Heller , Tel Aviv,Israel,
    KultureBahnhof,   Bremen , 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   Sideshow 195, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, "Pay Per It"
    Scott Pfaffman, NY, NY, "Color Pictures"

    1997   Stamp, Williamsburg, NY "Dis'Place"
    1986   Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "A California Collection"
    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)
    California State University, Fullerton, "Face To Face - Back to Back" (catalog)
    Occidental College, Eagle Rock, CA, "Sixteen Self-Portraits by L.A. Artists"
    California State University, Los Angeles, CA, "Viewing Contemporary Landscape Painting" (catalog)
    Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Olympiad-Summer 1984"
    Design Center of Los Angeles , CA, "A Broad Spectrum:Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors 1984" (catalog)
    Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL, "3 Painters: Boston, New York, Los Angeles"

    1983   Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA "Between the Freeways" (catalog)
    Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Figure Fascination"
    Fresno Museum     of Art, 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)
    1982   Exile Gallery , Los Angeles, CA, "Sex in Exile"
    American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Behavioral Patterns of Los Angeles Art Dealers"
    Security Pacific Gallery Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, "Art in The Public Eye"

    1981  

    Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, Touring Exhibition, " New Approaches to Artists' Books" The Utah Museum of Fine Art ,Salt Lake City, Utah University Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico University of Arizona Museum of Fine Art, Tucson, Arizona
    Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    California State University, Los Angeles, CA, "New Fauves" (brochure)

    1980   LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), CA, "On and Off Broadway"
    Nelson Gallery of The Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO, "Bookworks"
    Sparks Gallery , Denver, CO, "Five Los Angeles Artists
    Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan,     "Visual and Sculptural Bookworks" (catalog)
    Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art ( LAICA) CA, "Urban Alterations"

     

    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)

     

    GRANTS AND COMPETITIONS
    2006   Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
    2004   Virginia Center for The Creative Arts (residency fellowship)
    2004   Fundacion Valparciso, Mojacar,Spain (artists' and writers' residency felowship)
    2000   Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
    1999   Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mt. Lake, NY (artists' and writers' residency fellowship)
    1998   Cummington Art Residency, Cummington, Massachusetts
    1996   St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT (3 month residency fellowships)
    1990   Altos De Chavon, Artist-in-Residence program, Dominican Republic (3 month residency)
    1987   National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
    1983   California Confedaration of the Arts

     

    SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    PS1 Contemporary Art Center/ Museum of Modern Art , NY ("Modern Excavation" wall alteration)
    UCLA/Hammer Museum, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles
    AMICO Library (Art Museum Image Consortium)     http:// HYPERLINK http://www.amico.org 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
    St. Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont
    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)
    Pfizer Inc., New York, NY
    Elise and Stanley Grinstein - Gemini GEL LA, CA
    Marian Griffiths, - Sculpture Center , NY, NY
    Prudential Insurance Co. of America , Newark, NJ
    Security Pacific Bank , Los Angeles, CA
    Security Pacific Bank , NYC, NY
    Joel Wachs , Andy Warhol Foundation-President, NY, NY
    YMCA, Honolulu, Hawaii
    Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno,California