TIMELINE
2021, Refrains, Et Al, San Francisco, (solo show)
2021, Refrains by ROOS, (album)
2021, Move to Los Angeles, CA
2020, Subject, Object, Verb presented by ArtReview (podcast)
2020, Staff Interviewer, The Believer
2019, Orchard House Residency, Boulder, CO (residency)
2019, Treatment at AmrtaSiddhi, second solo musical performance
2019, My Whole Entiled World, Escolar, Forestville, CA (performance)
2019, The Feeling Sense: a lecture, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco
2018, First Mudslinger performance, Other Places Art Fair, LA
2018, Guerneville, NIAD Art Center, with Gerasimos Floratos (curated show)
2018, first ROOS release, Standards Volume 1
2017, Anxiety Napkins, Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE (solo presentation)
2017, People Pool Pie, Performa 17, NYC (conductor)
2017, Host Season 1 of SFMOMA podcast
2017, The Book of Formation, Melville House Book (novel)
2016, Suncakes, Vacancy, LA (two person)
2016, Andrea Zittel's Wagon Station Encampment, Joshua Tree, CA (residency)
2016, Picnic, Eddie Martinez studio, NY (pop up solo show)
2016, Move to Muir Beach, CA
2016, Dek Hed, The Thing Quarterly (curated show)
2015, Move to Forestville, CA, on and off
2015, First solo musical performance, Queens Museum
2015, Feast with Brian Belott, Performa 15 (conductor)
2015, co-found The Organist presented by McSweeney's and KCRW (podcast)
2015, Sweather, Fredericks & Freiser gallery, NY (two person show w/ Brian Belott)
2014, Quartering Myself, Shoot the Lobster, Luxembourg (solo)
2014, Begin teaching at Columbia University, School of the Arts, graduate
2014, Ross Simonini Drawings (book)
2013, Temporary Culture, Human Resources, LA (performance, as NewVillager)
2013, Bad Fog, Martos Gallery, NY, curated by Eddie Martinez (group show)
2012, Jack Hanley Gallery performance as NewVillager
2012, Brooklyn Museum performance as NewVillager
2012, NewVillager released (album)
2011, Andy Warhol Museum performance, Pittsburgh as NewVillager
2009, Move to New York City
2009, Painter
2008, Meet future wife
2008, Move to San Francisco
2007 — ongoing, co-found NewVillager
2007 — leave Trespassers William
2006 — begin interviews editor, The Believer Magazine
2006, M.F.A. (Fiction Writing) Bennington College
2006 — 2007, editor, Resonance
2006, Having by Trespassers William released (album)
2005 — 2006, editor, Identity Theory
2005 — 2006, fiction editor, Cranky
2004, Move to Seattle
2003, Julliard/La Schola Cantorum, Paris (study of harmony)
2003, join the dream pop band, Trespassers William (bass, guitar, keys)
2003, B.M. & B.S. (Music composition) University of California, Santa Barbara
2003, UCSB Writing prize
2001, Writer
1987-1992, Filmmaker
1994, Musician