DIANE SIMPSON
EDUCATION:
1971 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1978 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
ONE and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2021
Point of view, JTT, New York
2020
Diane Simpson Cardboard, 1978-1980, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Diane Simpson: Sculpture, Drawing, Prints 1976-2014, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2019
Dress Codes: Ellen Lesperance and Diane Simpson, Frye Museum, Seattle WA
Architecture in Motion, Performance, Minneapolis, MN
Architecture in Motion, Performance, Chicago IL
2018
Diane Simpson, Herald St, London, UK
2016 Diane Simpson: Samurai, JTT, New York
Diane Simpson, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago (catalog)
Diane Simpson, Window Dressing, Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago
2015 Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (career survey - catalog)
Lesley Vance and Diane Simpson, Herald St, London,UK
Lui Shtini and Diane Simpson, Silberkuppe, Berlin,DE
2014 Window Dressing, NYU Broadway Windows, New York
2013 Diane Simpson, JTT, New York
Diane Simpson, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago (catalog)
2011 Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2010 Chicago Cultural Center (30-year retrospective - catalog)
2008 Alfedena Gallery, Chicago
2007 Window Dressing, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
2006 Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
2005 I space, Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2003 Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
2001 Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan (catalog)
1999 Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
1995 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
1992 Dart Gallery, Chicago
1983 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
1980 Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
1979 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022
The Grid and the Curve, JTT, New York
Looking Back/The 12th White Columns Annual; Curated by Mary Manning; White Columns Gallery, NY
2021
Annotations and Immprovisations; Curated by Kristen Becker; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse In Chicago Art- Collection of Christopher Slapak and Michael Robertson, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Off Road II, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout, Belgium
2020
Making Knowing Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art
Duro Olowu: Seeing ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2019
The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Travels to FRAC Lorraine Metz, France and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England.
Whitney Biennial, New York, NY
Herald St/Museum St, London UK
2018
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Objects Like Us, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Wiggle Wiggle, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
The House of Fame, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham UK
2017
Gray Matters, Organized by Michael Goodson, Wexner Art Center, Columbus Ohio
The Idea of a Boundary,Ten women artists undeterred by boundaries, Organized by Jackie Im, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016
These Are Flat Things And Things Which Are Not Flat, Organized by Katarina Burin, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, UK
See sun, and think shadow, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection , The Hessel Museum at Bard Collage, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell, Chicago
2015
Unorthodox, Jewish Museum, New York
About Face, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
Bonsai #5, Maccarone, New York
Over & Under, organized by Matt Keegan, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Off Broadway, organized by Nairy Baghramian, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2014
Jo Baer, Anne Neukamp, Diane Simpson, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
All Summer In A Day, Matt Conners, Kristan Kennedy, Owen Kydd, Diane Simpson, Erika Verutti, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Displayed, Anton Kern, New York, Curated by Matthew Higgs
My Hand Is My Bite, Monique Meloche, Chicago, Curated by Dan Gunn
What Not to Wear: Women Sculptors, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC, curated by Olivia Kohler-Maga
2008-2010
2008
2004
Black & White, Linda Ross contemporary/Art+Projects, Huntington Woods, Michigan
2003
2001
1996
1988
1979
New Dimensions: Volume and Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Graham Foundation Research Grant
2007 Fellowship in Visual Arts, Illinois Arts Council
1995 Fellowship in Visual Arts, Illinois Arts Council
1993/94 Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Arts Midwest/NEA
1983 Fellowship in Visual Arts, Illinois Arts Council
1980 Walter M. Campana Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
1978 E. Garrison Prize, Art Institute of Chicago
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
James Thompson Center, Chicago: The Illinois Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Chicago
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University at Indianapolis
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts