Montana Simone (she/they) (b. San Francisco, 1988), lives and works in Ridgewood, NY, the Lenapehoking.

Process gestalt, power-play/failure in form, material and labor, gesture beyond mark, the limits of interaction, logistical noise, noting absence, structural fragility, complexity as a function of decay.

Sculpture/installation/intervention including research, community organizing, music and agriculture.

montanasimone.studio @ gmail.com

SOLO SHOWS_

2023_A Slice If They Knock, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY

2023_Threes, CLEA RSKY, Brooklyn, NY

2021_Gap Fill, Nha Minh/Transpecos, Queens, NY

2021_Montana Simone, Osseous Matter , online

2019_Tides, residency exhibition, Tides Museum & Institute, Eastport, ME

2018_Radical Hospitality, IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn

2014_Montana Simone, 122 1st Ave, New York, NY

2013_The New Spirit, Molasses Books, Brooklyn, NY

GROUP SHOWS _

2024_Unrequited, Spy Projects, New York, NY

2023_Backyard, 165 N 5th St., Brooklyn, NY

2023_Forecast, 1581 Dekalb, Brooklyn, NY

2022_Weathering, 98 Mott, New York, NY

2019_Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Galería, New York

2017_Pass the Peas, Shipping and Receiving, Fort Worth, TX

2016_Phantasmagoria, IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015_She/Folk, IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

ZINES_

2017_Radical Hospitality, Montana Simone, IDIO Gallery

2013_The New Spirit, ed. 100

PRESS _

New York Times, Brooklyn Magazine, A Women's Thing Quarterly, Arts in Bushwick, Bedford + Bowery, Brooklyn Vegan

AWARDS _

2023_NYC Parks Department/Art Students League, Works in Public Grant

2023_Makerspace Membership Grant, Brooklyn, NY

2021_New Work Grant, Queens Council on the Arts

2019_Studioworks Artist in Residence, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Maine