Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975 in New York ) is an American artist . She works with the means of photography and film reportage. She is a Brown University graduate and a Guggenheim Fellow . Her photographs are mostly scenes shot with great attention to detail and using extensive equipment. She wants to deliberately differentiate herself from the journalistic snapshot.
Works
In the summer of 2000, Simon was hired by the New York Times Magazine to photograph falsely convicted men who had escaped the death penalty. The realization of the project The Innocents was supported by the Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography - the renowned Guggenheim grant . The exhibition was u. a. also shown in Germany at the Haus der Kunst (Munich) and Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.
In her new exhibition An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar , Taryn Simon shows photographs of taboo places that are closely related to settlement, mythology and everyday life in the USA, inaccessible to the public, hidden from view or simply unknown . In her work, Simon tries to discover unknown areas, to show everything.
The work block An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar , comprising more than 60 photographs and created between 2004 and 2007, was purchased by the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt and was on view there from September 29, 2007 to January 20, 2008.
Quote
“I made a list of all the secret, little-known places that I want to see personally.
I think I am more fearful than most people. It is fear that drives me. I keep pushing my own limits, forcing myself to do things even though I'm not happy with them. "
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2018 Taryn Simon. Paperwork and the Will of Capital , Gagosian Gallery, Athens
- 2017 Performance An Occupation of Loss , Park Avenue Armory, New York
- 2015 56th Venice Biennale - Arsenale , Paperwork, the Will of Capital
- 2013/14: Museum Folkwang , Essen, There Are Some Who Are in Darkness Works from the Olbricht Collection , Selected by the Artist
- 2011 Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters
- 2011 Tate Modern , London
- 2010 Lever House Art Collection, New York
- 2010 Gagosian Gallery , Beverly Hills
- 2008 Museum for Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
- 2008 Gagosian Gallery , Beverly Hills
- 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art , New York
- 2006 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
- 2005 Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago
- 2004 Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
- 2004 Gagosian Gallery Madison , New York
- 2004 Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen
Prizes and awards
- 2011 Author Book Award, Rencontres d'Arles , Provence, France
- 2010 Discovery Award, Rencontres d'Arles , Provence, France
- 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, finalist
- 2008 International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Publication, New York
- 2008 Silver Medal Lead Award, Germany
- 2007 KLM Paul Huf Award, FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam
- 2001 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for Photography, New York
- 1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Photography, Columbia University, New York
literature
- The Innocents, Umbrage Editions, 2003, ISBN 1884167187
- An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Steidl Verlag (engl.) ISBN 3865213804 , ISBN 978-3865213808
- Contraband, Steidl & Partners, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86930-134-1
- A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, London 2011, Mack Books, ISBN 978-1-907946-05-9
- Birds of the West Indies, 2013, Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-3663-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Taryn Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Taryn Simon website
- Tate Shots (Video) - Taryn Simon speaks about her exhibition "A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters" at Tate Modern , June 3, 2011
- The Guardian to Taryn Simon on the occasion of the exhibition of A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters in London (English, with quotations), May 22, 2011
- Taryn Simon on kunstaspekte.de
- Taryn Simon at artfacts.net
Individual evidence
- Süddeutsche Zeitung 2007, No. 219, p. 13
- ^ Taryn Simon in the MMK Frankfurt ( memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst , 2007/2008
- ↑ Barbara Gärtner, Die Informantin , monopol, No. 9/2007, pp. 49, 54
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on September 23, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Taryn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th February 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |