Taryn Simon

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Born in 1975 in New York, artist Taryn Simon received a BA in art semiotics from Brown University in 1997, while concurrently taking photography classes at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Simon’s work was featured in the Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008), and the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2011). Her art has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006); Tate Modern, London (2011); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012); and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013). Group shows include Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008); Seeing is Believing at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Kunste-Werke Berlin e.V (2011); and Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern, London (2014–15). Simon is based in New York City.

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