Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon directs our attention to familiar systems of organization bloodlines, criminal investigations, mourning, flower arrangements making visible the contours of power and authority hidden within. Incorporating mediums ranging from photography and sculpture to text, sound, and performance, each of her projects is shaped by years of research and planning, including obtaining access from institutions as varied as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Central Zionist Archives, the CIA's abstract art collection, and Playboy Enterprises, Inc.

Simon’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Lucerne; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited with the Aichi Triennale (2019), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts (2018–2019); Artangel in Islington, London (2018); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2016–2017); Park Avenue Armory, New York (2016); Albertinum, Dresden (2016); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2016); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2016); the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Tate Modern, London (2011); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2011); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007). Simon’s honors include the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography and a Photo London Master of Photography award.