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Samantha Simpson's work has been shown nationally and internationally. Her recent work has been shown in solo and two person exhibitions at Firecat Projects, Gallery Joe, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Tufts University, the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop in Austin Texas and Gallerie Michael Rasche in Fribourg Germany. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at art spaces including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Atlanta Contemporary Museum, Moti Hasson Gallery, Gallery Joe, the Cornell Museum of Art, New Langton Arts, Southern Exposure, Gallery Michael Rasche in Germany and Gallerie Magda Danysz in Paris. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the Sackner Archive of Visual Poetry, the DiRosa Foundation Collection and the university gallery collections at Wesleyan and Cornell Universities. She was awarded grants from the Leeway Foundation and Temple University and has attended residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She was recently a finalist for a Pew Fellowship. She received her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and Architecture . |
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Solo & 2/3 Person Exhibitions
Selected Press Feige, Jacob, “Drawing Now”, October 20, 2014 Schwartz, Chip, “Drawn Together in Philadelphia, Knight Arts, September 9 2014 Newhall, Edith, "Ballpoint Pen Drawings with Wit and Charm,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 2008 Fallon, Roberta. “Silhouettes and Drawings Rule the New School" Philadelphia Weekly, May 14, 2008 Newhall, Edith, Drawings that Dot the 'I' in Ink,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 2007 Hill, Lori. "First Friday Focus," Philadelphia Citypaper, July 5, 2007 Fallon, Roberta. “Ink!" Philadelphia Weekly, July 18, 2007 Fallon, Roberta, “Ink at Gallery Joe,” Artblog, July 18, 2007 Johnson, Ken. I Woke Up in a Strange Place,” New York Times, January 13, 2006. Newhall, Edith. “The Surreal to the Allegorical,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23, 2005 Fallon, Roberta. “Editor’s Pick,” Philadelphia Weekly, December 21, 2005 "Animal Fables," Ed Sosanski, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 2004 "Local Muses," Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, November 3, 2004 "New Releases and Paradise, Photographs by Lily Frisco, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, August 4, 2004 "From the Artist's Mouth," Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosoff's Artblog, August 12, 2004 "First Friday ups and Downs," Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosoff's Artblog, August 8, 2004 "First Friday Fireworks," Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosoff's Artblog, July 5, 2004 "Lines Dance," Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly,February 12, 2003 "Cartoon Confrontations,Samantha Simpson's 'The Snake Cycle' at Hallwalls, Mark Lavatelli, ArtVoice, June 20-26,2002 "Fantasies and Nightmares,"Cathy Byrd, Creative Loafing, April 11, 2001 "Samantha Simpson's Snake Cycle," John Massier, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 2002 “The Greatest Shows in Town,” Steve Mitchell, ArtVoice, June 13, 2002 “When the Wind Blows:2001 Atlanta Biennial,” Stephanie Bowman, Art Papers, September 2001 “Biennial’s Big ‘Wind’ Has Small Substance”, Catherine Fox, Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 20, 2001 “When the Wind Blows: 2001 Atlanta Biennial,” Catalog essay, Teresa Bramlette “Bizarro World: The Parallel Universes of Comics & Fine Arts” Ron Abrams, Catalog Essay, Cornell Museum 2000 "Double Vision", Steve Schneider, Orlando Weekly, March 16-22, 2000 "Wake up and hear, see and feel the difference", Laura Stewart, Daytona News Journal, December 12, 1999 "Art & Technology at the Ormond Art Museum", Carla Brooke, Flagler-Palm Coast Community Times, December 29, 1999 "Airbrush, Kegel und Selbstportrat", Badische Zeitung, May 22, 1999 "Samantha Simpson", Pat Benson, Leonardo, February, 1997 "Big Jesus Trash Can", Harry Roche, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 8-14, 1995 "The New Renaissance of San Francisco Dealers", Jeffrey Bernstein, Art West, January,1995 "Drawing First, Harry Roche, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 1, 1993 "Pop Pix, Prehistoric at the Victoria Room," Robert Friedman, Art week, October 21, 1993 "Inviting Art at an Uninviting Location," Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 1993
Residencies
2002 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerliz NY 1998 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL Writing Art Criticism: Affiliate Artist with Carter Ratcliff 1995-1997 Headlands Center for the Arts: Affiliate Artist
Education
MFA Painting 1993 San Francisco Art Institute BFA 1990 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Selected Public and Private Collections
Teaching
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