ROSS SIMONINI
is a painter, writer, composer, 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 is an interviewer at ArtReview and 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 hosts the ArtReview podcast Subject, Object, Verb. He hosted SFMOMA's Raw Material season 1 in 2017 and from 2015 — 2020, he produced The Organist, a collaborative audio experiment 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 currently teaches in the MFA Art Program at UCLA.
He releases music under his own name and has released music as a member of the bands, NewVillager and Trespassers William.
He lives in Los Angeles, where he runs ALICIA, a gallery and performance space on his property.
Contact: hello [at] rossimonini.com
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023, SunWorks, Zurich (upcoming, solo)
2023, Shrine, Los Angeles (upcoming, solo)
2022, The All, anonymous Gallery, NY
2021, Refrains, Et Al, San Francisco
2020, Energy Calendars, Fresh Bread, Chicago
2019, Thank You, Cat Box Contemporary, NY
2019, My Whole Entiled World, Escolar, CA
2017, Anxiety Napkins, Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE
2016, Suncakes, Vacancy, LA (two)
2015, Sweather, Fredericks & Freiser, 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 (solo 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, Milk Heaven, 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, Stop Smiling, LA Weekly, Bookforum, Seattle Weekly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Stranger, Psychology Today, SFMOMA's Open Space, Affidavit, 11:11, Mean, Hazlitt, The Globe and Mail, Poetry Magazine, Yeti, Manhattan Art Review.
ZINES (pdfs)
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)
MONOGRAPHS (as contributor)
2023, Sam Moyer, Rizzoli (dialogue)
2022, Reassembler 3, Brian Belott (essay)
2021, N.Dash, Mehdi Chouakri (essay)
2021, Fifth Dimension Cookbook, Susan Cianciolo, LumberRoom, (essay)
2021, The Reassembler, Brian Belott (essay)
2021, N.Dash, Monograph (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
2022 - 2023, ALICIA
2018, Guerneville, NIAD Art Center, with Gerasimos Floratos
2016, "Dek Hed" at The Thing Quarterly
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
2023, UCLA, MFA Art Department
2014 — 2022, Columbia University, Writing program, 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
2004 - 2007, Music Editor, Identity Theory
RESIDENCIES
2019, Orchard House Residency, Boulder, CO
2017, Salmon Creek Farm, Mendocino, CA
2016, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Audio Artist in Residence
2016, Andrea Zittel's Wagon Station Encampment, Joshua Tree, CA
EDUCATION
B.M. (Music Composition) University of California
M.F.A. (Fiction Writing) Bennington College
Certificate, European American Musical Alliance, Julliard/Nadia Boulanger
PRESS
Identity Theory, 2018, Questionnaire: Ross Simonini
Art News, 2019, Consumer Reports: Ross Simonini
Document Journal, 2022, Feel Good Painting
This is Your AfterLife, 2022, Podcast interview (part 1 and 2)
Observer, 2022, Breaking the Stigma
The Slow Down, 2022, On Subject Object Verb
Culture Trip, 2017, Novelist Ross Simonini On The Book of Formation
The Believer, 2018, An Interview with Ross Simonini
Autre Magazine, 2021, Premiere: I Am Love
Thank You exhibition essay, 2019, by Evan Reiser
Degree Critical, 2019, On Quartering Performance
Interview Magazine, 2017, Ross Simonini's The Book of Formation
Quartering Myself: a documentary on Simonini's four limbed painting
Interview Magazine, 2014, Ross Simonini Takes a Napkin
Mission Comics Art Gallery, 2015, An interview with Ross Simonini
The Jalapeno, Podcast Interview, 2019
Artinfo/Modern Painters, 2014, Ross Simonini's Feet, Food and Fraught Emotions
LargeHearted Boy, 2017, "The Book of Formation" Booknotes Playlist
The New York Times, 2011, Now Watching: Lighthouse
Ross Simonini, 2007, by Tao Lin
LA Weekly, 2019, Other Places Art Fair
Fiction Advocate, 2017, Hitting Shelves
The New York Times, 2013, Review: Draw Gym
Humor and the Abject, 2018, Podcast interview
ArtNews, 2017, Accessing Chaos: On Ross Simonini's Raw Material
Arkansas International, 2018, An interview with Ross Simonini
Stoner Podcast, 2019, An interview with Ross Simonini
LA Weekly, 2011, Bad Past Gone Away
Paste Magazine, 2012, The Hero with a Thousand Faces and NewVillager
Interview Magazine, 2012, Cocoon House
The Believer, 2013, Notes concerning Ross Simonini's current drawing show
WQXR, 2013, Ross Simonini's Music that Defines and Undefines New Composition
Obscure Sound, 2011, Review: NewVillager's self-titled debut
