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Born in Louisiana, 1963.
Lives and works in New York City
Education
1989 MFA, Computer Art; School of Visual Arts, New York
1987 MA, Earth and Planetary Science; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1985 BA, Art (Studio); BS, Geology; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Awards
2000 Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist, The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1999 Creative Capital new media grant
Solo exhibitions
2010 Innerhole, Gering & López Gallery, New York
riverrun, Galleria Glance, Turin
Hybrid Media: John F. Simon, Jr. & Mathew Kluber, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa
Streaming Museum: The Poetics of Code: John F. Simon, Jr. and Eduardo Kac., Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2009 Outside In: Ten Years of Software Art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2008 Color and Time, Galería Javier López, Madrid
2007 Winds Across the Inner Sea, Gering & López Gallery, New York
John F. Simon, Jr. & Mark Napier, Digital Art Museum, Berlin
2006 Nonlinear Landscapes, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
2005 Stacks, Loops, and Intersections: Code Sketches by John F. Simon, Jr., University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany
John F. Simon, Jr., Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Loussiana
Endless Victory, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
2004 Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
2002 John F. Simon, Jr., SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
New Instructions, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
John F. Simon, Jr., University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
2001 Systematic Drawing: Janet Cohen and John F. Simon, Jr., The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Complicated Boundaries, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, a project of Creative Capital
2000 ComplexCity, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1999 CPU, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Group exhibitions
2010 Digital Art @ Google: Data Poetics, Google, Inc. Headquarters, Nueva York
The Poetics of Code Part 1, with Eduardo Kac, Streaming Museum- on line
The Incomplete, Galerie Jean - Luc & Takako Richard, París, curated by Hubert Neumann
01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California
Traffic Art 2010, Sequence, Quebec
2008 NETworking: Net Art from the Computer Fine Arts Collection, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Holy Fire art of the digital age, iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels
2007 The Incomplete, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York
Ingenuity Festival, work presented by MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
2006 Art Under Glass: The Synergy of Art and Fashion, Macy’s, Harold’s Square, New York
[Grid < > Matrix], Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri
All Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2005 Techno / Sublime, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
ElectroScape, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Metamorfosis, MEIAC - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz
2004 Paintings that Paint Themselves, or so it seems, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Seeing Double: Emulations in Theory and Practice, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey; University Museums, University of Richmond, Virginia
New York Show, Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, Louisiana
RuntimeArt, Mi2 Exhibition Space, Zagreb
Digital Sublime - New Masters of the Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, SVA, New York, curated by Jerry Saltz
2003 Flower Power, Musee des Beaux - Arts, Lille
ArtApparatus, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
Split, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Dirty Pixels Show, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2002 Art Futura Festival, CCCB - Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona
In the Making, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
Complexity, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
media_city seoul 2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2002 Media Art Dae Jeon - New York: Special Effects, Dae Jeon Municipal Museum of Art, Dae Jeon, Korea
Looking Back at Looking Forward: The Aldrich Museum's Emerging Artists Awards 1997- 2001, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Math - Art / Art - Math, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Optical Optimism, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana
2001 BitStreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Glee: Painting Now, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Selections from the Permanent Collection, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Perfect 10: Ten Years in Soho, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Locating Drawing, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
TranspolyBlu, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
2000 2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
An Art of Pure Form, works from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
End Papers: 1890 - 1900 and 1990 - 2000, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York
City of Lights: Art Walk, Boutique Caron, New York, organized by Downtown Arts Projects
Años Luz, Centro de Arte La Recova, Tenerife, Canary Islands
Scanner, CCAC Institute, San Francisco
Mapping, territory, connections, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
DEAF, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival sponsored by V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1999 Cyber Cypher Either End, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
1998 Formulations, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York ; group show with Sol LeWitt and Hanne Darboven, curated by Timothy Druckrey
1997 Mac Classics Group Show, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Commissions
2010 HD Traffic, various cities, US, Europe, Asia
2005 Mobility Agents, artist’s book and cd published by Printed Matter, Inc., and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2002 Channels, permanent installation, The College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City
2002 Business in the Arts Award, commissioned artwork, Business Committee for the Arts
2001 Unfolding Object, commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum for Guggenheim.org
Web projects and exhibitions
1998 Beyond Interface, web site exhibition, juried show, Steve Deitz, chair
1997 Color Balance, Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, web site installation, www.bobsart.com
Every Icon, Stadium Online Gallery, curated by Ron Wakkary, www.stadiumweb.com, New York
HOMEPORT, Leo Castelli Gallery, Palace Project with Lawrence Weiner and www.adaweb.com
Combinations, Sandra Gering Gallery, www.geringgallery.com, New York
1996 Words Link, Slate Magazine Gallery, www.slate.com
Space of Information - Archive Mapper, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center, group show curated by Laura Trippi, www.adaweb.com/~dn/a, Canada
Saver, Java based web project with Cheryl Donegan, www.geringgallery.com
We Both Belong, web project with Ben Kinmont and ada web, www.adaweb.com
The Web’s Most Wanted Painting, Dia Center for the Arts, web project with Komar and Melamid
1995 Alter Stats - Condition of the Web Observer, Sandra Gering Gallery, web project and installation of associated drawings, www.geringgallery.com, and New York; web project also installed at The Thing at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Jenny Holzer - Please Change Belief, web project with Jenny Holzer and www.adaweb.com
1994 Line Drawings, The Thing Bulletin Board, online gallery, www.thing.net
Public collections
Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
The College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Print Collection of the New York Public Library, New York
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, Greenville, Ohio
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Deluth, Minnesota
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Zurich Capital Markets, New York
