Artist Taryn Simon and Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum, New York, will host a conversation in Simon's studio.
Taryn Simon directs our attention to familiar systems of organization—bloodlines, criminal investigations, mourning, flower arrangements—making visible the contours of power and authority hidden within. Incorporating mediums ranging from photography and sculpture to text, sound, and performance, each of her projects is shaped by years of research and planning, including obtaining access from institutions as varied as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Central Zionist Archives, the CIA's abstract art collection, and Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
Simon’s work has been exhibited with Artangel in Islington, London (2018); and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts (2018–2019); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2016–2017); Park Avenue Armory, New York (2016); the Albertinum, Dresden (2016); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2016); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2016); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Tate Modern, London (2011); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2011); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and was included in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Simon’s honors include the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography and a Photo London Master of Photography award.
Nancy Spector was named Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in 2017. In this role she provides conceptual and strategic leadership of collections, exhibitions, and curatorial programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Spector has curated ground-breaking exhibitions by artists including Felix Gonzalez‑Torres, Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramović, Tino Sehgal, and Maurizio Cattelan. She was adjunct curator of the 1997 Venice Biennale and co-organizer of the first Berlin Biennial in 1998. In 2007 she was the U.S. Commissioner for the Venice Biennale. Spector is a recipient of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curators Award, five International Art Critics Association Awards, and a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award for her work on YouTube Play.
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