A.I.R.
D'Ann DE SIMONE Resume
From Westerly, Rhode Island. Lives New Haven, CT and East Lansing, MI.
Email : [email protected] Website : danndesimone.com
EDUCATION
MFA, 1983 painting, printmaking, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. MA program in art history, Brown University, Providence, RI. BFA, 1980 painting, printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy.
SELECTED SOLO + SMALL GROUP INVITATIONAL
2015 Mott Community College, Flint, MI (solo) 2014 K12 Galerie, Bregenz, Austria. (solo) Art Bodensee, Dornbirn, Austria (three person) 2013 Delta College, Bay City, Michigan. (solo) 2012 Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence. (solo) 2011 Southeast Missouri State University, Holland School of Visual and Performing Arts, Riverside Gallery, Cape Girardeau. (solo) Black Door Gallery, Cape Girardeau, MO. (solo) 2010 Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI. 2009 Obsession, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2008 new work, PaperWorks Gallery, Grand Rapids. (solo) 2007 Multiple Choice, PaperWorks Gallery, Grand Rapids. 2006 The Art of the Print, PaperWorks Gallery, Grand Rapids. 2004 YW?, Viridian Gallery, W. 25th, NYC. 2003 Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI. 2001 lilia, Kreft Center Gallery, Concordia College Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI. (solo) 2000 conversatio, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT. (solo) Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT. (solo) Interpretations, Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC. conversari, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. (solo) 1999 Mt. Wachusett Community College, Gardner, Massachusetts. (solo) Breaking the Pattern:Contemporary Women in Art, Gallery 509, Memphis, TN. 1998 Lorimier Gallery, Cape Girardeau, MO. (solo) 1996 Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO. (solo) 1996 InsideART, Chicago, IL.) 1995 Charleston Heights Arts Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NE. (solo) 1993 Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL. (solo) THEDISASTERWITHINACCID..., Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI. 1991 catachresis, University of Michigan Hospital Gallery, Ann Arbor. (solo) 1990 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, OR. (solo) Manville Gallery, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NE. (solo) Pontiac Art Center, Pontiac, MI. (solo) 1989 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA. (solo) 1989 Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR. (solo) 1998 Lorimier Gallery, Cape Girardeau, MO. (solo)
SELECTED SOLO + SMALL GROUP INVITATIONAL – con’t
1988 Markers, John Ely Slade Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT. Curator: Paul Clabby. 1987 Henry Korn Gallery, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR. (solo) 1986 School of Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. (solo)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015-16 Absence and Presence, Al-Mutanabbi Printmaking Project, Baghdad, Iraq. Exhibit will travel to UK, Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Faculty Exhibition, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, E. Lansing. Curator: Christina Chang, Curator of Engagement, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul. 2014 Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI. 2012 Process as Content, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI. 2012 Mid America College Art Association Members Juried Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit. Curator: Michelle Perron, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit. 2011 Detritus, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY. 2010 Detritus, Viridian Gallery, NYC. Imaging the Future, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI. Small Works Invitational 2, Elon University, Elon, NC. 2009 Small Works Invitational, Elon University, Elon, NC. 2008 RISD Midwest Alumni Exhibition, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH. Juror, Sherrie Hawk, Director, Sherrie Gallerie. Art from Detritus, Synagogue for the Arts Gallery, NYC. Curator: Vernita Nemec, Director, Viridian Gallery, Chelsea, NYC. 2006 Collage Only Detritus, Synagogue for the Arts Gallery, NYC. Curator: Vernita Nemec, artist, Director of Viridian Gallery, NYC. 2005 James Adley and Friends Exhibition, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI. NewsArt, Viridian Gallery, NYC. Art from Detritus: Recycling with Imagination, Synagogue for the Arts Gallery, NYC. (group invitational) Resident Artist’s Show, Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT. 2004 10th Anniversary of Art from Detritus, Synagogue for the Arts, NYC. (invitational, group) YW?, Viridian Gallery, NYC. 2003 Art from Detritus Recycling with Imagination, NYC. (invitational, group) 2002 Pressing Matters: A Printmaking Invitational, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI. (invitational, group) Detritus, John Jay College Gallery, NYC. (invitational, group) 2001 Detritus, John Jay College Gallery, NYC. (invitational, group) 2000 – 01 RISD on the Road, traveling exhibition. Jurors: Phillip Brookman, Curator, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ruth Fine, Curator, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C Westbeth Gallery, NY. 600 Townsend Gallery, San Francisco.
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago. 2000 Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans. The Art Association’s ArtWest Gallery, Jackson, WY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS - con’t
2000 Small Works Exhibition by the Print Club of Albany Artist Members, LuLu Gallery, Albany. 1999 Artists & Friends, Viridian Gallery, NYC (group, invitational) Curator: Vernita Nemec, Director, Viridian Gallery. 1999 Breaking the Pattern: Contemporary Women in Art, Gallery 509, Memphis, TN. 41st Annual Discovery Museum Juried Art Exhibition, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT. 1999 Jurors: Laurene Buckley, Director, New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain. James Montford, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence. Artist Members' Exhibition, Print Club of Albany, Turnbull Gallery, Schenectady Museum, Nott Terrace Heights, Schenectady, NY. 1997 Connecticut Women Artists Annual Members Exhibition, Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community Technical College, Manchester, CT. 1997 Artist Members Summer Exhibition, Print Club of Albany, Rensselaerville Institute Art Gallery, Rensselaerville, New York. 1996 Louise Grayson Gallery, Petoskey, MI. (group) 67th Annual Connecticut Women Artists Juried Show, The John Slade Ely House, New Haven. Juror: Linda Ayres, Assistant Director of Museum Programs, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 1994 Art of the Northeast USA, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. Juror: Diane Waldman, Deputy Director, Senior Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY. 65th Annual Exhibition Connecticut Women Artists Juried Show, John Slade Ely House, New Haven. Juror: Suzanne Delehanty, Museum Consultant & Independent Curator, Director, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (1989 – 93), Director, Newberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase (1978 – 88), Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1971 – 78). 1994, 93 Mednarodna Razstava Male Grafike ( First Mini-Print Slovenija International Exhibition), Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Maribor, Slovenija. Jurors: Aleksander Bassin, Director, Municipal Gallery, Ljublijana, Slovenija. Brane Kovic, Art Critic, Ljubjana, Slovenija. 1994 Jurors: Michael Gibson, Art Critic, Paris. Dr. Laszlo Beke, Director, National Gallery, Budapest. Wenzel Jakob, Chief Curator, Kunst und Ausstelungshalle der BRD, Bonn. 1993 Tenth Gallery '76 National Juried Art Exhibition, Gallery 76, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, WA. Juror: Fay Jones. 1993 Connecticut Women in the Arts, The John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT. Choices 93, The Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT. Jurors: John Hull, Professor of Painting, Yale School of Art. Kathryn Potts, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sam Wiener, sculptor. The 1993 Small Print Exhibit, Park Row Art Gallery, Chatham, NY. (invitational) 1992 RISD Alumni in Connecticut, John Slade Ely House, New Haven. (juried) 17th National Open Print Competition, Schenectady Museum of Art, Schenectady, NY. 1992 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham. Juror: Gladys Nilsson 1991 The Garden, Stroh's Riverplace, Detroit, MI. (group) Curator: Sandra Schemske, Suzanne Hillberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI. 1991 Visual Potpourri, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Juror: MaryAnn Wilkinson, Ass. Curator of 20th Century, Detroit Institute of the Arts. 1991, 90 10th Annual Alma College Statewide Traveling Exhibition, Alma College, Alma, MI: Juror: Art Werger, Chair of Art, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA. Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery, Alma College, Alma, Eastern Michigan University, Ford Gallery, Ypsilanti, Michigan Technological University, J. Robert Van Pelt Library Gallery, Houghton, Virginia McCune Arts Center, Petoskey, William Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba, Lake Superior State University, University Gallery, Sault Ste. Marie, Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena. 1991 All Media Show 1991, Left Bank Gallery, Flint, MI. Jurors: Paul L. Stewart, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Larry Cressman, Ann Arbor. Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham. Juror: Alvin Loving. The Print 1991, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI. Juror: Joe Wilfer, Publications Director, Pace Editions, NYC. 1990 The Inspiration of Music, The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ. Curators: Robert E. Knight, Director of Visual
Arts, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Deborah Hopkins, Assistant Director of Visual Arts for Exhibitions 4th Annual West Michigan Regional Exhibit, Lowell Arts Council, Arts Center, Lowell. Jurors: Dennis Komac, Director, Grand Rapids Art Museum. Marsha Chamberlain, Executive Director, Ann Arbor Art Association. 11th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition, Columbia Art League, Columbia, Missouri. Juror: Moira Marti- Geoffrion, Tucson, AZ. 1990 Exhibiting Artist Members Show (Print Club of Albany), City Hall, Albany, NY. 1990 – 89 4th Annual International Small Print Traveling Exhibition, Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, NY: Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, Cape May Art League, Cape May, NY Plaza Gallery, City Hall, Binghamton, Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY. In addition, show traveled throughout the United States during 1990. 9th Annual Alma College Statewide Print Competition, Alma, MI. Juror: Evan Summer, Philadelphia:Flora Beck Gallery, Alma College, Alma, Virginia McCune Arts Center, Petoskey,William Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba, Kendall College of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, Wayne State University, Detroit, Jesse Besser Museum of Art, Alpena. 1989 16th Juried Exhibition & Invitational Print Show, Stedman Room ,The Print Club of Albany, Albany, NY. Juror: Jonathan Greenberg, Director of Prints, Board Member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, Kennedy Galleries, NYC. 1989 The Print, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI. Juror: Leonard Baskin. National Print Invitational, Art Institute of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX. 1988 – 90 The American Miniature Printmaker International & U.S. Gallery Traveling Tour, Masters Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. Show traveled to India and Far East for three years. Jurors: Arthur Ollman, Executive Director, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. Martin E. Petersen, Senior Curator, San Diego Museum of Art. Paul Lingren, Professor of Art, San Diego State University. 1988 – 89 The Third International Mini Print Exhibition, Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences,Binghamton, New York: Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, Binghamton Art Club, Cape May Art League, Cape May, NJ, Plaza Gallery, City Hall, Binghamton. Juror: George Tomko, emeritus Curator of Art, Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences. 1988 Women Artists 1988, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California. (invitational, group): Yolo County Administration Building, Woodland, California. Jurors: Ruth Jahnke Waters, San Francisco; Barbara Rogers, Chair, Graduate Program in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute. The Frisco l00, Alligator Gallery & Performance Space, 924 Valencia Street, San Francisco, California. (invitational, group) 8th Annual Alma College Statewide Print Competition, Alma College, Alma, MI: Juror: Caroly Autry Clack Art Center, Alma College, Alma, Virginia McCune Arts Center, Petoskey, William Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba, Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids, Wayne State University, Detroit, Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor.Juror: Norman Stewart, MP (Master Printer), Stewart Press. Award. Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham. Juror: Alice Aycock. Award. 9th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition, Columbia College Art Gallery, Columbia, Missouri. Juror: Keith Crown, Los Angeles, CA. 1987 Viva la Vida: An Homage to Frida Kahlo, The Woman's Building Gallery, Los Angeles. (invitational, group). Curator: Nancy Ann Jones Kansas Twelfth National Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Fort Hays State University Gallery, Hays, KS. Juror: David Finkbeiner, Pratt Graphic Society, NYC. Sixth Biennial Paper & Clay Exhibition, University Gallery, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN. Juror: William Weege. Midsouth Monotypes, Ervin G. Houchens Gallery, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY. 1986 ArtWest National Juried Open, Jackson Hole Arts Center, Jackson, WY. National Society of Artists Fall Competition, Art Center Gallery, Hitchcock, TX.
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AWARDS
2014 Michigan State University International Studies Program Travel Grant. Michigan State University College Travel Grant. 2013-14 Michigan State University, Humanity and Arts Research Program Production Grant. 2013 Michigan State University Study Abroad Research Grant, Basel, Switzerland. Nominated for Michigan State University Paul Varg Alumni Award for Faculty. Visiting Artist, Delta College, Saginaw, MI. 2012 – 13 Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters Research Grant.
2012 Visiting Artist, Rhode Island College, Providence. Michigan State University Study Abroad Research Grant, Venice, Italy. Artist’s Fellowship and Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. 2011 Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters Research Grant. Visiting Artist, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau. 2010 – 11 Michigan State University, Humanity and Arts Research Program Production Grant. 2005 Artist’s Fellowship and Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson. 2002 Finalist, Outstanding Faculty Award, Senior Class Council, Michigan State University. Women’s Studio Workshop Fellowship Grant and Residency, Rosendale, New York. 2002 Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Award, Senior Class Council, Michigan State University. 2001 Atlantic Center for the Arts Associate Artist, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Master Artists: Louisa Chase, Wadada Leo Smith, Jawole Zollar. 1999 Best in Show Award, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. Juror: Philip Perlstein (solo exhibition, Main Gallery, awarded). 1998 – 97 All-University College Research Grant, Michigan State University. 1996 – 97 Michigan State University Leadership Fellow, appointed by Provost. 1994 Prix d'Achat Award, Mini Print Slovenija International Exhibition, Maribor, Slovenija. 1994 Charrette Corporation Award, Art of the Northeast USA, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. Juror: Diane Waldman, Guggenheim Museum, NYC. The Connecticut Women Artists Juror’s Award, 65th Annual CT Women Artists Juried Show, The John Slade Ely House, New Haven. Juror: Suzanne Delehanty, Director, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. 1989 Recognition Award, Statewide Printmaking Competition 1989, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, MI. Juror: Leonard Baskin. 1988 Juror's Award of Excellence, Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Birmingham. Juror: Alice Aycock. Format framing Recognition Award, Statewide Printmaking Competition, Ann Arbor Art Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1995 – 96 sardonius (risus), All-University Research Initiation Grant, Michigan State University. 1992 – 93 elementus, All-University College Research Grant, Michigan State University. 1991 Non-traditional Painting Techniques, All-University College Research Grant, Michigan State University. 1989 – 90 All-University College Research Completion Grant, Michigan State University. Harvard University Museum of Natural History, Ware Collection, Cambridge, MA. 1988 All-University College Research Grant, Michigan State University, Harvard University Museum of Natural History, Ware Collection, Cambridge, MA.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Art Bodensee, Neu-Isenburg, Germany: Edition Minerva, 2014. catalogue, p. 26, p. 84. "Eröffnung: "The Space Between"" Vol. AT. Vorarlberg Online, July-Aug. 2014. Web.
p. 29, exhibition review. _____. D’Ann De Simone Searches for Order, Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, "Community" section, p. 10, exhibition exhibition review, color reproduction, October 1998. Fila, Bob. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 27, 1996, "Tempo" section, p. 1, color reproduction. _____. ”Smith, De Simone Art Work To Be On Display at Museum,” Daily American Republic, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, October 1997, p. 8A, article, reproduction. Semowich, Charles. “Spring Exhibition: The Print Club of Albany Artist Members at the Market Theatre Gallery,” The Print Club of Albany, Inc. and The Museum of Prints & Printmaking Newsletter, Ft. Orange Station and Albany, New York, June 1994, p. 5, exhibition review. _____. “Gallery ’76 hosts 10th juried art exhibit,” The Wenatchee World, April 1, 1993, review. Miro, Marsha. The Detroit Free Press, June 12, 1991, p. 8E, exhibition review. Schemske, Sandra. Detroit Artists Market Journal of Exhibitions, 1991, volume 3, # 5/6, pp. exhibition review, reproduction. The Sneak Preview, Eugene, Oregon, November 20, 1990, “Calendar of Events” section, p. 14, reproduction. Noah, Cathy. Grants Pass Daily Courier, November 8, 1990, “Entertainment” section. p. 4D, exhibition review. Abatt, Corinne. The Southfield Eccentric, Southfield, Michigan, Apr. 1988, exhibition review. Bain, Roger. The Sunday Courier, Evansville, Indiana, Nov. l986, exhibition review. _____. “25th Anniversary Exhibition of EHP, “Alumninews, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, September 1986, p. 3, exhibition review. Milan Zrim, Editor. 1st International Mini Print Exhibition, (Ljubljana, Slovenija: PACO d.o.o., 1993), p. 162, biography, reproduction.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Current Professor of Art, Michigan State University, East Lansing. 2005 - Faculty Leader: Music, Art and Language in Bregenz. 1997 – 98 Visiting Instructor, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven. 1993 – 95 Visiting Associate Professor of Art, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY. 1986 – 87 Assistant Professor of Painting and Printmaking, Graduate Faculty, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN. 1985 – 86 Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, University of Washington, Seattle. 1985 – 84 Instructor of Printmaking, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, MA. 1984 – 83 Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Jackson Liberty Insurance Company, Jackson, MI. Rhode Island College, Providence. Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Michigan State University, East Lansing. The Slater Memorial Museum of Art, Norwich, CT. Mr. and Mrs. Don Zerwer, Chicago, IL. Dr. John P. Spiegel, M.D., Boston, MA. Dr. Edward Jacobs, Jr., M.D., Boston, MA. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. University of Massachusetts, Boston. University of Rhode Island, Kingston. University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT. University of New Hampshire, Durham. University of Vermont, Burlington.
University of Maine, Orono. Nova Scotia School of Art, Halifax, Canada.