Activities | Ross Simonini

ROSS SIMONINI

is a writer, visual artist, musician, podcaster, and dialogist.

He has held exhibitions of his work at the Sharjah Biennial 13 (UAE), anonymous Gallery (NYC), Et Al Gallery (SF), Shoot the Lobster (Luxembourg), Jack Hanley Gallery (NYC), and Human Resources (LA).

His first novel, The Book of Formation was published in 2018 by Melville House Books.

He has released multiple albums under his own name and several others as a member of the bands, NewVillager and Trespassers William.

He is an interviewer at ArtReview. He served as the interviews editor at The Believer from 2007 — 2020. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Paris Review, Frieze, Mousse, and many books and monographs.

He currently hosts the ArtReview podcast Subject, Object, Verb. In 2017, he hosted SFMOMA's Raw Material season 1. From 2015 — 2020, he produced The Organist, a collaboration between McSweeney's and KCRW .

He has taught seminars on experimental process, sound, and dialogue at Columbia University's MFA writing program, California College of the Arts, and will teach at UCLA in the Spring.

He lives in Altadena, California where he run Alicia, a gallery and performance space on his property.

Contact: hello [at] rossimonini.com

SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS

2022, The All, anonymous Gallery, NY

2021, Refrains, Et Al, San Francisco

2020, Massage Tools/Energy Calendars, Fresh Bread, Chicago

2019, Thank You, Cat Box Contemporary, NY

2019, My Whole Entiled World, E scolar, Forestville, CA

2017, Anxiety Napkins, Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE

2016, Suncakes, Vacancy, LA (two)

2015, Sweather, Fredericks & Freiser gallery, NY (two)

2014, Quartering Myself, Shoot the Lobster, Luxembourg (solo)

2014, Bathers, Blackston, NY (two)

2013, Eat or Die, Denny Gallery, NY (two)

2012, Temporary Culture, Human Resources, LA (as NewVillager)

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2022, Chris Johanson, Altman Siegel, San Francisco

2021, 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, NY

2021, The Shaker, Sgomento Zurigo, Zurich, Switzerland

2020, Birds Sun Such Trees, Et al + Arts of Life, Chicago

2020, 100 Sculptures, No Gallery, LA

2018, Gnaw The Bone That Falls To Thy Lot, Kimberly Klark Gallery, NY

2017, Mind Control, Alterspace, SF

2016, Shakey Towns, AlterSpace, SF

2016, World Made By Hand, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY

2015, Negative Hand, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico

2015, Box Lunch, SkyLab, Columbus, OH

2013, Draw Gym, 247365 & Know More Games, NY, curated by Brian Belott

2013, Brush Crusher, NY curated by Gerasimos Floratos

2013, Age of Small Things, Dodge Gallery, NY

2013, Devotional Spaces, Ventana 244, NY

2013, Bad Fog, Martos Gallery, NY, curated by Eddie Martinez

2012, Nature Balance, Fredericks and Freiser Gallery, NY

2012, Human Resources, curated by Dawn Kasper, NY

PROJECTS

2022, Exhibition A

2020, To Your Under, Heavy Heavy Breathing

2019, Contradict Yourself, Other Places Art Fair, Los Angeles

2018, Books of Deformation, an edition, Exhibition A, New York

2016, Algae Bibs, Colpa Press

2016, Picnic, Martinez studio, NY (pop up solo)

2016, Prospect Drawings, Exhibition A

2015, Digestive Napkins, Martos Gallery

PERFORMANCES

2019, My Whole Entiled World, Escolar, Forestville, CA

2019, Quartering Performance, Interface Gallery, Oakland

2018, Mudslinger, Stable Gallery, Other Places Art Fair, LA

2012, NewVillager, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York

EVENTS

2019, The Feeling Sense: a lecture, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco

2018, On Interviewing: a talk at Likeminds, Hudson, NY

2018, Fluid Humanity: A talk with Anicka Yi, Printed Matter, NYC

2017, People Pool Pie, Performa 17, NYC (conductor)

2017, A Conversation with Anna Halprin, Jessica Silverman Gallery

2015, Queens Museum (solo musical performance)

2015, Me Want Food with Brian Belott, Performa 15 (conductor)

2014, Interview with John Maus, Frieze art fair

2012, Brooklyn Museum (as NewVillager)

2011, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (as NewVillager)
2011, Powerplay festival, Bridgehampton (as NewVillager)

MUSICAL PROJECTS

2017 — ongoing, Ross Simonini

2007— 2012, NewVillager

2003 —2007, Trespassers William

PUBLICATIONS

The New York Times, McSweeneys, The Believer, ArtReview, T Style, The Paris Review, Art in America, The Fader, Interview, Mousse, LitHub, California Sunday, ArtNews, frieze, Salon, Bomb, Los Angeles Times, StopSmiling, Vegetarian Times, LA Weekly, Bookforum, Seattle Weekly, Identity Theory, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Stranger, Psychology Today, SFMOMA's Open Space, Affidavit, 11:11, Mean, Hazlitt, The Globe and Mail, Poetry Magazine, Yeti.

BOOKS (author)

2017, The Book of Formation, Melville House Books

2016, Brian Belott and Ross Simonini

2015, MoMY

2014, Ross Simonini Drawings

2012, Rotdraw

BOOKS (as editor)

2012, Always Apprentices, Believer Books (editor, with Sheila Heti)

2014, The appearance of Confidence: Believer Books (editor, with Vendela Vida)

BOOKS (as contributor)

2021, N.Dash, Mehdi Chouakri (essay)

2021, Fifth Dimension Cookbook, Susan Cianciolo, LumberRoom, (essay)

2021, The Reassembler, Brian Belott (essay)

2021, N.Dash, Casey Kaplan (essay)

2021, Creative Mood, Galeria Marta Cervera (essay)
2013, Eddie Martinez Paintings , Picture Box Books, (essay)

2015, My Life As a Man, Carmen Winant, (poem)

2016, Serious T'ings Gonna Happen: on Jamaican Dancehall, Hat and Beard (essay)

2015, Sender, Peter Sutherland, Printed Matter (essay)

2015, Devendra Banhart and Adam Tullie (introduction)

2015, 33 1/3's How to Write About Music, Da Capo (essay)

2015, Matthew Barney's River of Fundament, Rizzoli (essay)

2013, Jacob Cooper, Silver Threads, New Amsterdam (liner notes)

CURATION

2018, Guerneville, NIAD Art Center, with Gerasimos Floratos

2016, "Dek Hed" at The Thing Quarterly (Terence Koh, Marlon Mullen, Seth Price, Candice Lin, Mort Drucker, Peter Shear, Ashley Carter, Keegan McHargue, Quintessa Matranga, and Karen May)

PODCASTS

2020 — present, Subject, Object, Verb presented by ArtReview

2017, Raw Material presented by SFMOMA

2015 — 2019, The Organist presented by McSweeney's and KCRW

TEACHING

2014 — present, Columbia University, School of the Arts, graduate/undergraduate

2019, California College of the Arts, Creative Writing, graduate

2019, Stanford, Guest lecturer, Italic program

2010, Stanford, Guest lecturer, MFA writing program

EDITING

2007- 2020, Interviews Editor, The Believer magazine

2005- 2007, Music Editor, Resonance Magazine