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Taryn Simon in
Spaces of No Control

October 1, 2020–February 19, 2021
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
www.acfny.org

Spaces of No Control is an international group exhibition that explores the notions of the modern city and its signifying dystopias of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This multifaceted show unites contemporary artists based in Austria and the United States to comment on current definitions of citizenship and public space. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Terminal

August 13, 2020–February 14, 2021
City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
citygallery.org.nz

Terminal is an exhibition of international art made about the airport, not for it. The exhibiting artists variously address the airport as site, form, or symbol—often by subverting its iconography and processes, or by tackling its history and politics. Work by Andreas Gursky and Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
Measure Your Existence

February 7, 2020–January 24, 2021
Rubin Museum of Art, New York
rubinmuseum.org

Measure Your Existence questions and expands the Buddhist concept of impermanence through artworks by six contemporary artists who explore duration, survival, memory, fate, history, loss, disappearance, and reappearance. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
We Never Sleep

September 24, 2020–January 10, 2021
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
www.schirn.de

This exhibition explores the “golden age” of espionage during the Cold War in the context of media super-exposure through the works of more than forty international artists. On view are a multitude of artistic strategies and unexpected objects: Paintings, photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations address the topic from a contemporary perspective. The works in the show touch on aspects of spy culture such as surveillance, paranoia, conspiracy, threat, camouflage, cryptography, manipulation, and propaganda. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Time for Outrage!
Art in Times of Social Anger

October 29, 2020–January 10, 2021
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
www.kunstpalast.de

Based on a 2010 manifesto of the same title by former French resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel, the exhibition Time for Outrage! brought together more than forty international artists who visualize, reflect on, and comment on various facets of anger and rage in our society during this era of political turmoil and democratic crisis. Work by Taryn Simon and Adriana Varejão was included.

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Taryn Simon
Assembled Audience

September 26–November 20, 2020
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus
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Taryn Simon’s Assembled Audience (2018) draws on the notion of engineered applause, gathering individuals with varying political, corporate, and ideological allegiances into a single crowd. Simon assimilated recordings of single attendees applauding at local concerts, sporting events, and political rallies at three of the largest venues in the capital city of the bellwether state of Ohio. Her experiential installation wholly immerses the visitor in a darkened space punctuated only by the sound of randomized individual applause tracks; the same crowd never comes together twice. Presented for the first time in the city of its creation, Assembled Audience proves prescient in the isolation that it forecasted as these same gathering spaces, once crowd-filled, are now quieted by covid-19, the spaces respectively repurposed for eviction trials, police trainings, and a field hospital.

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Civilisation, Photography, Now

June 13–October 18, 2020
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
www.aucklandartgallery.com

Civilisation, Photography, Now features more than two hundred works from one hundred international photographers. The exhibition considers patterns of mass behavior and the complexities of life in twenty-first-century urban environments. This show originated at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, as Civilization: The Way We Live Now. Work by Mike Kelley, Vera Lutter, and Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
Pine’s Eye

February 29–August 30, 2020
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
www.trg.ed.ac.uk

Taking its name from that of Pinocchio (the word means “pine eye” in Italian), Pine’s Eye explores what it means to be human in times of ecological change. The exhibition offers alternative perspectives for how we understand ourselves in the face of environmental crisis. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

March 19–August 16, 2020
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
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The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical, and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by more than forty-five international artists. Our age, a new geological epoch defined by human impact, has controversially been termed the Anthropocene. Despite the challenges of disaster and denial, artists in the exhibition respond with resistance, imagination, and new ways of seeing and thinking about the world to come. This exhibition originated at the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, in Gainesville. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything

October 24, 2019–April 13, 2020
Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
www.nikolajkunsthal.dk

This multidisciplinary exhibition combining visual art, virtual reality, installations, performances, music, and writing offers the public a collection of new work commissioned from and created by local and international artists who have been inspired by Leonard Cohen’s style and recurring themes. This exhibition originated at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Unseen
35 Years of Collecting Photographs

December 17, 2019–March 8, 2020
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
www.getty.edu

Commemorating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of photographs, this exhibition reveals the breadth and depth of the Getty’s acquisitions through an array of its hidden treasures, none of which have been exhibited at the museum before. Spanning the history of the medium from its early years to the present day, Unseen highlights visual associations between photographs from different times and places to encourage fresh discoveries and underscore a sense of continuity and change within the history of the medium. Work by Gregory Crewdson and Taryn Simon is included.

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Civilization
The Way We Live Now

September 13, 2019–February 2, 2020
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Civilization: The Way We Live Now features more than two hundred works from one hundred international photographers. The exhibition considers patterns of mass behavior and the complexities of life in twenty-first-century urban environments. This show originated at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. Work by Mike Kelley, Vera Lutter, and Taryn Simon is included. 

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Reflections
Matt Black × Gana Art

November 1, 2019–January 5, 2020
Gana Art Center and Gana Art Hannam, Seoul
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In collaboration with filmmaker Matt Black, this exhibition is centered around his short film series titled Reflections, which features conversations with contemporary artists. Through his interviews, Black paints a picture of the rapidly changing contemporary art scene, revealing the stories behind the artworks. Following the film’s theme, Gana Art has curated this exhibition to feature works by these artists, which include Dan Colen, Rachel Feinstein, Jeff Koons, Harmony Korine, Sterling Ruby, Taryn Simon, and Blair Thurman, among others.

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Taryn Simon in
Aichi Triennale

August 1–October 14, 2019
Various locations in Japan
aichitriennale.jp

The fourth iteration of the Aichi Triennale features an international contemporary art exhibition alongside film, performing arts, and music programs, bringing together more than eighty individual artists and artist groups across a range of expressive domains to showcase their cutting-edge works. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything

April 12–September 8, 2019
Jewish Museum, New York
thejewishmuseum.org

This multidisciplinary exhibition combining visual art, virtual reality, installations, performances, music, and writing offers the public a collection of new work commissioned from and created by local and international artists who have been inspired by Leonard Cohen’s style and recurring themes. This exhibition originated at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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What is an edition, anyway?

May 24–September 7, 2019
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
www.mcevoyarts.org

What is an edition, anyway? explores the traditions, conditions, and inventive expressions of the contemporary artist’s multiple. Photography, performance, illustration, technology, and installation further explore the notion of the edition as an idea reproduced in limited quantities. Work by Richard Prince and Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
The Future Starts Here

March 21–August 4, 2019
ArkDes, Stockholm
arkdes.se

The Future Starts Here brings together groundbreaking technologies and designs currently in development in studios and laboratories around the world. Visitors are guided by a series of ethical and speculative questions to connect the subject matter to the choices that we all face in our everyday lives. This show originated at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
Durch die Blume–Florale Metamorphosen

April 6–July 21, 2019
Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany
www.kunstverein-heilbronn.de

In celebration of the Federal Horticultural Show, which in 2019 takes place in Heilbronn, Kunstverein Heilbronn is hosting Durch die Blume–Florale Metamorphosen, which examines Yves Bélorgey’s depictions of everyday architecture from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s and pairs it with the themes of gardens and parks. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Civilization
The Way We Live Now

March 9–May 19, 2019
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
ucca.org.cn

Civilization: The Way We Live Now features more than two hundred works from one hundred international photographers. The show addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global civilization and stresses the fact that contemporary society is an extremely complex collective enterprise. Work by Mike Kelley, Vera Lutter, and Taryn Simon is included. This show originated at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul.

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Taryn Simon in
For Ever More Images? Designing a Cybermachine for the Twenty-First Century

April 9–22, 2019
Onassis Stegi, Athens
www.onassis.org

In 1977, the Voyager I and II spacecraft began their respective interstellar journeys; onboard, each carried an audiovisual archive of a sort: a golden record containing a message to possible extragalactic recipients, a time capsule in which was encoded mankind’s existence and achievements on planet Earth. What would the images placed inside a similar time capsule mean today? Could they perhaps communicate our alarm about our planet’s uncertain future? Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon
Assembled Audience | A Cold Hole

May 26, 2018–March 24, 2019
MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
massmoca.org

In this ambitious exhibition featuring two new installations, Taryn Simon activates the ancient practices of applause and the cold-water plunge, examining individuals’ campaigns for public adoration, the status of physical community spaces in the digital age, and our persistent desire for a quick fix. Rooted in the artist’s longtime interest in the systems that support power structures, the works on view scrutinize the ways in which power penetrates the body through ritual.

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Taryn Simon in
Scripted Reality: The Life and Art of Television

November 15, 2018–March 24, 2019
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
www.fundacionjumex.org

This exhibition is a thematic survey of artists looking at television as a medium, both for their work, and as a significant and formative aspect of the contemporary period. The works in the show span the period from 1952 to the present, and address the formation of identity in relationship to television as a broadcast medium. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Taryn Simon in
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

September 18, 2018–March 3, 2019
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
www.harn.ufl.edu

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical, and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by more than forty-five international artists. Our age, a new geological epoch defined by human impact, has controversially been termed the Anthropocene. Despite the challenges of disaster and denial, artists in the exhibition respond with resistance, imagination, and new ways of seeing and thinking about the world to come. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Civilization
The Way We Live Now

October 18, 2018–February 17, 2019
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
www.mmca.go.kr

Civilization: The Way We Live Now features more than two hundred works from one hundred international photographers. The show addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global civilization and stresses the fact that contemporary society is an extremely complex collective enterprise. Work by Mike Kelley, Vera Lutter, and Taryn Simon is included.