Montana Simone (b. San Francisco, 1988), lives and works in Ridgewood, New York.
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_Working Through It, Lovitt, Queens, NY
2024_Solstice, Site.004, Telos Haus, Brooklyn, NY
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
EDITIONS _
2024_Agape, bronze edition for Aid4P (Gazan family fund)