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EXHIBITIONS
Solo Shows
2024 Putty’s Coronation, Runes, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Undercurrent Gallery, Criers, Curated by Laura Zaveckaite, Julius Ludavicius, and Daina Mattis, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Artshack Gallery, Amok, Curated by Ivana Brenner, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Annex Gallery, Piehole, Curated by Tryn Collins, The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
Group Shows
2023 Hirschl & Adler Modern, Various Flowers, Curated by Dylan Gauthier, New York, NY
2023 Underland Gallery, Prix Fixe, Curated by Ben Koditschek, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Olympia Gallery, Dreaming: Co-respondence in word & image, curated by Chantal Lee & Emily Dunne, New York, NY
2022 Olga Korper Gallery, Formless Bodies, Curated by Jarrett Earnest, Toronto, Canada
2022 Shandaken Anniversary Exhibition, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
2022 XXX Dekalb Ave., A Light In The Attic, Curated by Georgia McGovern, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Olympia Gallery, As Humor Has It, Curated by Ali Rossi, New York, NY
2021 114 Forest St., Dog Park, Organized and Curated by Field Projects and Good Naked, Petty Cash, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Good Naked, Margaritaville, Curated by Jaqueline Cedar, With Grayson cox, Kevin Dudley, George Skoufas, and
Hollis Witherspoon
2021 Carriage Trade, Social Photography IX, Curated by Peter Scott, New York, NY
2020 Olympia Gallery, In The Weeds, Curated by Georgia McGovern, New York, NY
2019 Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Paint School 2019, New York, NY
2019 Carriage Trade, Social Photography VII, New York, NY
2019 A.I.R. Gallery, Wish you Were Here Postcard Show, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Boston College, O’Connell House, Metaphors, Making, and Mysticism, Curated by Grace Caiazza,
Chestnut Hill, MA
2018 NURTUREArt, Object Intimacies, Curated by Jane Cavalier and Nicole Kaack, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Sour Milk, 73 Orchard Place, Curated by Christine Stiver and Ben Quesnel, Greenwich, CT
2018 Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Art Night 2018, Installation and performance of Emilia Galotti’s Colouring
Book of Feelings, Play written by Sophie Seita, digital projections by Simone Kearney, London, UK
2018 Anytime Dept., Companion Pieces, Curated by Lydia Rosenberg and Rebecca Steele, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Re: Art Show, Re: Framed, Guest Curated by Jane Cavalier and Nicole Kaack, The Old Pfizer Factory, 630
Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY
2017 La MaMa La Galleria, La MaMa Family Show, New York, NY
2017 The Art Omi International Arts Center, Ultra Pro Festival: Sculptures that Cook, Curated by Michael
Tong, Ghent, NY
2017 West Cork Arts Centre, West Cork Arts Centre Members Exhibition, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland
2016 Penthouse Gallery, MICA GRAD Show, Curated by Doreen Bolger, Baltimore, MD
2016 Pinkard Gallery, CTFO, Curated by Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curatorial Practices (IACP), Baltimore,
MD
2015 Riggs and Leidy Gallery, Neither/Or, Baltimore, MD
2015 Riggs and Leidy Gallery, First Year Juried Show, Baltimore, MD
2015 Gateway Gallery, Grids, Baltimore, MD
2014 Fox III Gallery, Graduate Fall Show, Baltimore MD
2014 Kunsthalle Galapagos, This Red Door, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Bruce High Quality Foundation, 837 Washington Street, The Last Brucenniel, NY
SELECT PERFORMANCES, READINGS, EVENTS
2024 New york Art Book Fair, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
2022 Brooklyn Rail, Lost Contact Performance by Carol Szymansky, with Joan Jonas, Thierry De Duve, Barry Schwabsky, Rachel Corbett, Matvei Yankelevich,
Brooklyn, NY
2021 Brooklyn Poets, zoom reading with Ross Gay and Tracy Fuad, Brooklyn, NY
2021 The Brooklyn Rail, Radical Poetry Series, Curated By Barry Schwabsky, with
Joyelle McSweeney, Arthur Sze, and Tyrone Williams, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Stockbridge Library, Poetry is medicine for the soul, Stockbridge, MA
2020 FiveMyles Gallery, Performance of “The Language That Repairs” with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn NY
2020 Boston University, Kilachand Honors College, Desire Lines, Performance with Sophie Seita, Boston, MA
2019 Bar laika, Performance with text for Book Launch of Barry Schwabsky’s “The Observer Effect: On
Contemporary Painting” and Carol Szymanski’s “Acquiescence,” With Readings and Performances by
Rachel Corbett, Katherine Faw, Richard Hell, Joan Jonas, Simone Kearney, Sophie Seita, Lane
Shiotayonii, and John Yau, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Signs and Symbols, performance in Carol Szymanski’s play, “He Said I Thought,” Alongside David
Cohen, Janice Guy, Joan Jonas, Canning Robb, Barry Schwabsky, Sophie Seita, Kasenia Saager, Lane
Shiotayonii, Andrea Velascoa, Claire Zakievicz, New York, NY
2019 Wave Machine, Performance of text With Video Projection, Brooklyn, NY
2019 SPACE, Performance of “Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or Paper Tigers” by Sophie Seita, London, UK
2019 BRIC Biennial, Performance of “Visions of the Strange and Miraculous BCE 1111 (2019),” commissioned
for “A Speculative Performance Presented by The Institute of Super-Species Research and
Experimentation” by Laura Bernstein, alongside Nikki Calonge, Hanna Novak, Emily Reilly, Emily
Taibleson and Paola Di Tolla, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Raven Row, Performance of “Desire Lines/Experiments in Queer Phenomenology” with Sophie Seita, London, UK
2019 NURTUREart, reading of text “Touch,” with Audra Wolowiec, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Judd Foundation, In conversation with Jarrett Earnest and Anna Betbeze on Color, New York, NY
2018 Torn Page, Work-In-Progress Performance of Sophie Seita's Play Emilia Galotti's Colouring Book of
Feelings, With Sculptures and Projections by Simone Kearney, Costumes by Kat Addis, and Music by R.
Karim. Performed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, Sophie Seita, Jocelyn Spaar, and Bridget Talone
2017 Rachel Uffner Gallery, Reading at Molly Zuckerman-Hartung's Show, "Learning Artist," New York, NY
2017 Stellar Projects, Book Launch for Six New Chapbooks From Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, NY
2017 School of Visual Arts Library, Exchange: Beyond The Boundaries of the Written Word, New York, NY
2015 Queens Museum, Quail rise: R’s Queens Reprised, Queens, NY
2015 The Fuller Lecture Series at This Red Door, “On Kafka’s Ghost & the Spiral Jetty,” Hamburg, Germany
2014 Andrew Edlin Gallery, Contemporary Poetry Two, curated by Sam Gordon, presented in collaboration
with BOMB magazine and NADA, New York, NY
2014 NADA, Contemporary Poetry, curated by Sam Gordon, New York, NY
2012 The Poetry Project At St. Mark’s Church, Launch for Bridge Journal, NY, New York
2012 Thierry-Goldberg Projects Gallery, Millay Colony Office for Recuperative Strategies workshop reading,
New York, NY
2011 PS 122, This Red Door presents: Six Non-Lectures, New York, NY
2010 St. Ann’s Warehouse, Puppet show set to poetry, Alphabet Arts presents Toy Poets Theater, Brooklyn,
NY
2010 Gowanus Studio Space, Remember Me From How I Was Tonight: An Evening of Performance, Brooklyn,
NY
2010 Thierry Goldberg Projects Gallery, Suspensions, A night of performance and poetry, New York, NY
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Books, Chapbooks & Chaplets
2024 iTI Press, “Dim, Dahlia, Violet, Stone” (Artist book of poetry & Sculptures by Simone Kearney, With photographs by Hannah Whitaker, Design by Elana Schlenker)
2023 Belladonna Press, “A Big Salad,” (Chaplet)
2021 Belladonna Press, “DAYS” (Full-length book of poetry)
2017 Ugly Duckling Presse, “My Ida" (chapbook)
2013 Minute Books Press, “In Threes” (Limited Edition Artist Chapbook)
Poetry and Art
2024 emergency Eyewash, publication by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Shymanski, (forthcoming)
2022 KGB Bar Lit Issue, “Bull’s Eye”
2021 The Brooklyn Rail, “DAYS” (Excerpts)
2021 Jubilat, “Scene”
2021 On the Seawall, “DAYS” (Excerpts)
2021 Solar, “DAYS” (excerpts)
2020 St. Ann’s Review, “The Story of Jacky Dory” (Excerpts)
2020 Lumina, “The Story of Jacky Dory” (Excerpts)
2019 Precog Magazine, collaboration with Xiaofu Wang, “Interview”
2019 Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities Brooklyn Anthology, “Ida is not universal Hope”
2018 Riot of Perfume, “Anecdote” and “Horse”
2018 The Brooklyn Rail, "Like Were: On Roni Horn's 'Were 12'"
2018 Lithub, "My Ida" (Excerpts)
2017 Ohio Edit, "My Ida" (excerpts)
2016 Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, published by Columbia University
2015 Literati Quarterly, “Telephone”
2014 PEN Poetry Series, “Rear Window,” “Bends in the Middle,” “Personal Tragedies”
2014 Stonecutter Journal, Issue 4, “Une Barque Sur L’Océan,” “Purple Afternoon,” “Hydromedusa”
2014 Broadstone Books, 84 Poets, with photographs by John Sarsgaard, “Her Carnival Cruise”
2013 Boston Review, “Days”
2013 Ooteoote (Vertaallab/ Translationlab), excerpt from “In Threes,” translated Into Dutch
2013 A Circus Book, “A Living Artist”
2013 Ink Brick Journal, “Mobilization,” Silk-screen poetry comic
2012 Boston Review, “All One Has Before One”
2012 Bridge Journal, “Fatherless Calligraphy,” (art/poetry collaboration with poet Christian Hawkey)
2012 Ragazine, “The Nature of It,” “Contents”
2011 Post Road Magazine, “Morning,” “A Kind of Ductility”
2011 Supermachine, “Evening in Room,” “Albuquerque”
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
2022 Uillinn: West Corks Arts Center, Artist-in-residence, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Artshack Brooklyn Ceramics, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Shandaken Projects, Covid Rent Relief Studio, Governor’s Island, NY
2019 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, with scholarship, Berlin, Germany
2019 The Hambidge Center Residency, Rabun Gap, GA
2018-19 Shandaken Projects, Paint School, New York, NY
2019 Parsons Distinguished Teaching Award Nominee, New York, NY
2019 Parsons Faculty Development Fund Grantee, New York, NY
2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Nominee, New York, NY
2016 The Lighthouse Works Residency, Fishers Island, NY
2016 The Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency, Montauk, NY
2014-16 Hoffberger Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, MD
2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
2014 Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, full scholarship, Woodstock, NY
2013 Josef and Anni Albers Residency, Bethany, CT
2013 Ragdale Artist Residency, Lake Forest, IL
2010 Amy Award, Best New Female Poets in NY Under 30, Poets & Writers
2006 Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, Boston College
2006 Jacques Salmanowitz Program For Moral Courage In Film Grant
PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
2022 Artforum, Barry Schwabsky on Simone Kearney
2022 Arforum, Said To Be Dreaming at Olympia Gallery: Must See Show
2022 Lighthouse Works podcast, conversation with Tryn Collins
2022 United States Artists, New Suns: Listening with Artists, “Keeping In Touch”
2022. Artnet, Editor’s Pick
2022 Artshack Brooklyn Ceramics, conversation with McKendree Key
2021 Belladonna Press, “A Rosy Rhombus Exiting My Mouth: A Conversation between
Simone Kearney and Jarrett Earnest
2021 Spamzine, “DAYS by Simone Kearney,” Review of DAYS by Oli Hazzard
2021 Entropy magazine, “Review of DAYS by Simone Kearney,” by Zoe Contros Kearl
2021 NDR magazine, “DAYS by Simone Kearney,” Review of DAYS by Lauren Burgess
2021 Rob McClennan’s Blog post, “Days by Simone Kearney,” Review of DAYS by Rob
McClennan
2019 Yale University Radio Interview, with Brainard Carey
2019 The Sum of Its Parts: The Poetic Materialism of Simone Kearney, MacAdam & Co. ArtTalk,
DinaburgArts, by Salvatore Schiciano
2017 Poetry Foundation, "Simone Kearney Interviewed As Brooklyn Poets' 'Poet of the Week'"
2014 The American Reader, Micro-Review: On Simone Kearney’s Middlemarch, by Adam Fitzgerald
EDUCATION
2016 MFA In Painting, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore,
MD
2010 MFA in Creative Writing, Hunter College, New York, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Parsons the New School For Design, part-time Assistant Professor, Integrative Studio/Seminar, New York, NY, 2016-Present
Rutgers University, Adjunct Faculty, Intro to Multimedia Composition/Digital Storytelling, New Brunswick,
NJ, 2017-Present
Pratt, Visiting Artist (Classroom visit), Brooklyn, NY, 2022, 2023, 2024
Yale University College of Art, Guest Critic, New Haven, CT, 2018 & 2021
SAIC, Visiting Artist (classroom visit), Chicago, IL, 2021
Yale Graduate school of Art, Visiting Artist (Classroom visit), New Haven, CT, 2020
Boston University, Visiting Artist (Classroom visit), Boston, MA, 2020