 Artist's arttributes:
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Digital Art |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 25 |
| Spain | 3 |
| Germany | 2 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Gering & López Gallery, USA |
8 |
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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, USA |
2 |
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Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Spain |
2 |
Biography: 
1963 Born in , LA (US)
Awards 1999 Creative Capital New Media Grant.
2000 Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist, The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT .
Lives and works in New York City, NY (US)
Can a machine produce every possible image? What are the limits of this kind of automation? Is it possible to practice image making by exploring all image-space using a computer rather than by recording from the world around us? What does it mean that one may discover visual imagery so detached from "nature"? John F. Simon Jr.’s early software artwork, Every Icon (1997), was his initiation into a concept that forms the foundation of his current software artwork. The idea is that simple rules, activated and displayed on a screen, create more images than anyone can ever see in his or her lifetime.
John considers software writing to be a kind of creative writing. He activates time-based simulations and studies their emergent properties to discover new forms and compositions. His software artworks are displayed on anything from wall-mounted LCD screens and projectors to cell phones and handheld computers. He also uses his own software to make drawings on paper, plastic and formica, thus combining the digital with the hand-made in hybrid compositions. Moving between instinct and idea, each composition merges the physicality of the material world with the fluid inner world of code. The LCD screen functions simultaneously as a visual element of the surface and as a window into the system's evolution. The endless variability of the software evokes new connotations of what is infinite when seen against the dimensionality and texture of materials.
John Simon's work has been included in the Whitney Museum's 2000 Biennial and Bitstreams in 2001. He was selected to receive the Aldrich Museum Trustee's Award for an Emerging Artist in fall 2000. His software panel works have been collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
He holds an MFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and a Masters degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 37
Solo shows 14
2012
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| John F. Simon, Jr. - Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA |
2010
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| innerhole - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| John F. Simon, Jr. - OUTSIDE IN. Ten years of Software Ar - Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia |
2008
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| Color and Time - Galeria Javier López, Madrid |
2007
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| John F. Simon Jr. Winds Across the Inner Sea - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| John F. Simon Jr.: Linear Landscapes - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| John F. Simon, Jr. - Stacks, Loops and Intersections: Code Sketches - University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY |
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| John F. Simon Jr.: Endless Victory - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| SubUrban - John F. Simon Jr - Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN |
2002
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| John F. Simon, Jr - University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA |
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| John F. Simon, Jr. - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| John F. Simon Jr. - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| John F. Simon Jr.: ComplexCity - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| John F. Simon, Jr., CPU - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 23
2012
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| Emergencias 2012 - Exposiçao De Arte Contemporánea Experimental - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
2011
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| Videosphere: A New Generation - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
2010
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| 2010 01 SJ Biennial - ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA |
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| Streaming Museum: The Poetics of Code: John F. Simon, Jr. and Eduardo Kac - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Hybrid Media - Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA |
2009
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| Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Aldrich Museum Benefit - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
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| Holy Fire, Art of the Digital Age - iMAL (interactive Media Art Laboratory), Brussels |
2007
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| Net Working - Net Art From the Computer Fine Arts Collection - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa |
2006
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| META.morfosis - El museo y el arte en la era digital - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
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| All Digital - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
2005
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| Electroscape International - Himalayas Art Museum (the former Zendai Museum of Modern Art) , Shanghai |
2004
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| Paintings That Paint Themselves - Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI |
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| Digital Sublime - New Masters of Universe - MOCA Taipei, Taipei |
2003
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| Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct - Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN |
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| Art Apparatus - Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Electrohype 2002 - Carolinahallen & Malmö Kunsthall, Malmö |
2001
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| PERFECT 10: Ten Years in Soho - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Glee - Painting Now - - The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL (closed) |
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| Systematic Drawing: Janet Cohen & John F. Simon, Jr. - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
| Dealer Directory 5 |
Germany
Spain
| | Galeria Javier López, Madrid
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USA
| | Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 4
Italy
| | Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
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USA
| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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