SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

"Focus: Gary Simmons", The Museum of Modern Art, Forth Worth, Texas, USA

Survey exhibition, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York

"I Wish It Could Be Morning All Day Long", commissioned billboard, Art Public at Art Basel Miami Beach

2011
"Shine", Simon Lee, London
2010
"Double Feature", SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
"Black Marquee," Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2010
"Midnight Matinee," Metro Pictures, New York (and 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2008)
2008
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (and 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005)
CAIS Gallery, Seoul/Hong Kong (cat.) (and 2002)
2007
Anthony Meier, San Francisco
"House of Pain," Simon Lee Gallery, London
2006
"1964," The Bohen Foundation, New York
2003
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2002
"Gary Simmons," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (cat.)
2001
"Ghost House," (site-specific installation) SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (cat.)
"Desert Blizzard," Video Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
2000
"Wake," (web exhibition) Dia Center, www.diacenter.org, New York
"Bench Markers," Musée D'Art Americain, Giverny, France (broch.)
1999
"Currents 80," The Saint Louis Art Museum
1997
"Gary Simmons: Gazebo," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis
1995
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (two-person exhibition with Glenn Ligon)
"Gary Simmons: Erasure Drawings," Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles (broch.)
1994
"Directions: Gary Simmons," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. (broch.)
1993
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (and 1996 [catalogue])
1992
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami
"The Garden of Hate," Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York (brochure)
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica (and 1989, 1991)
1990
White Columns, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star”, New Museum, New York

2012

"Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA

"The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Inaugural exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

"Thenceforward, and Forever Free", Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee

2011
"The American Art: Masterpieces from the Whitney", The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

“30 Americans”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
"Pandora's Box:Joseph Cornell Unlocks the Museum of Contemporary Art Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2010
"Singular Visions," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2009
"The Foundation of Contemporary Arts Benefit Show," Lehmann Maupin, New York
"NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith," Miami Art Museum, Miami
"30 Seconds off an Inch," The Studio Museum, New York (2009-2010) (cat.)
"Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"Nothingness and Being," The Jumex Collection, Mexico City
"Sites," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008
"An Unruly History of the Readymade," The Jumex Collection, Mexico City (2008-2009) (cat.)
"The Station," Midblock East, Miami
"30 Americans," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008-2009) (cat.)
Gwangju Biennale, Korea
"NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith," The Menil Collection, Houston
2007
"For the Love of the Game, Race and Sport in America," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford
"Collected Identities: Gifts from the Blake Byrne Collection," Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
"Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making," The Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
2006
"Fifth Interpretation of the Collection," La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico (cat.)
"The Constant Possibility of Erasure," Dorsky Gallery, New York.
"Studio in the Park," organized by BravinLee, Riverside Park, New York
2005
"Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (cat.)
"Past, Presence, Childhood and Memory," Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria
"Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2004
"Social Studies," Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois (cat.)
"White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art," Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore (cat.)
2003
"Whiteness, A Wayward Construction," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
"Raid the Icebox," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
"Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (cat.)
2002
"New York Renaissance – Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art," Palazzo Reale, Milan (cat.)
2001
"I'm Thinking of a Place," Armand Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
"One Planet Under a Groove – Hip Hop and Contemporary Art," Bronx Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
"Audible Imagery: Sound and Photography," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago
2000
"Art on the Line Comes Inside," Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania
"Point of Reference," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
1999
"Sightgags," Museum of Modern Art, New York
"At Century's End," Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
"Billboard," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
"Heaven," Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
"American Century," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Videodrome," New Museum of Contempoary Art, New York
"Rapture," Bakalar Gallery and Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
1998
"The Campaign Against Living Miserably," Royal College of Arts, London
"Cut on the Bias," Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
1997
"New York: Drawings Today," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"No Place (Like Home)," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (broch.)
"Gothic," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (cat.)
"Wall Drawings," Kunsthaus, Zurich (cat.)
"Trade Routes: History and Geography," 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
"Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"inSite97," Installation Gallery, San Diego, California (cat.)
1996
"Imagined Communities," Oldham Art Gallery, London (traveling venues through 1997, cat.)
"Defining the 90's: Consensus Making in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
"Under Capricorn: Art in the Age of Globalization," Stedelijk Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (cat.)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Getekend, Amerika!" MK Espositieruimte, Rotterdam (cat.)
"A/drift," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
"Fragments: Proposta per a una colleccio de fotografia contemporania," Museo d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (cat.)
"Inklusion, Exklusion: Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globaler Migration," Reininghaus Graz, Austria (cat.)
1995
"Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995," Erfurt, Germany (cat.)
1994
"Urban Paradise: Gardens in the City," Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
"Summer Academy I," PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York
"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Armond Hammer Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles (cat.)
1993
"Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Thread Waxing Space, New York
"The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism," Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine (cat.)
1992
"The Politics of Difference: Artists Explore Issues of Identity," University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
"The Big Nothing or Le Presque Rien," New Museum of Contemporary Art and French Cultural Services, New York
"Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience," Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
"Dissent, Difference, and the Body Politic," Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Otis Parsons School of Design (cat.)
"Wall Drawings," The Drawing Center, New York
1991
"Interrogating Identity: The Question of Black Art," Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin; Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (cat.)
"The Subversive Stitch," Simon Watson Gallery, New York
"Schwarze Kunst: Konzepte zu Politik und Identitat," Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
1990
"All Quiet on the Western Front?" Espace de Dieu, Paris
"Official Language," San Francisco Art Institute Galleries, San Francisco
"Total Metal," Simon Watson Gallery, New York
1989
American Fine Arts, Co., New York

GRANTS/AWARDS
2007
USA Gund Fellowship
1991
Penny McCall Foundation Grant
1990
National Endowment for the Arts Interarts Grant

COLLECTIONS
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Baltimore Museum of Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York
Jumex Collection, Mexico City
The Miami Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Norton Family Foundation, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
The Rubell Collection, Miami
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Studio Museum Harlem, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York