Judith Simonian
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Judith Simonian is an American artist known for her montage-like paintings and early urban public art.[1][2][3][4] She began her career as a significant participant in an emergent 1980s downtown Los Angeles art scene that spawned street art and performances, galleries and institutions such as Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), before moving to New York City in 1985.[3][5][6]
Judith Simonian | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Nationality | American |
Education | California State University, Northridge |
Known for | Painting, public art |
Awards | John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize |
Website | Judith Simonian |
In her first decade of work, Simonian created site-specific installations and public projects for MoMA PS1, Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and Creative Time, among others, that intervened in or transformed deteriorating urban sites.[7][8] Through that work's emphasis on strategies of juxtaposition and disjuncture, she developed a language that has informed her work for three decades after a shift to painting.[9][10] Artcritical's Deborah Garwood describes Simonian’s paintings as intuitive works which "knit luscious pictorial fields that tease cognition and the senses" and suggest the mind's "contradictory resilience and fallibility" in grasping contemporary existence.[1]
Simonian has exhibited paintings and mixed-media works internationally, in numerous gallery shows, and at The New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Art, and Newport Harbor Art Museum (now Orange County Museum of Art/OCMA).[11][12][13] She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Gottlieb Foundation grants, and National Endowment for the Arts awards; her art belongs to institutions such as the Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, OCMA, Broad Art Foundation, and Fresno Art Museum.[14][15][16] She lives and works in the East Village in Manhattan and teaches at The Cooper Union.[17]