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Works from the Photography Collection of MMK', MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
'STARE: The Pleasures of the INtensely Familiar and the Strangely Unexpected', Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US

2009
'[email protected]', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
'Bienale Cuvee 09', OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Australia
'Deutsche Börse Photography Prize', Photographers Gallery, London, UK
'Political/Minimal', Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

2008
'Political/Minimal', KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
'Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
'Manifesto Marathon, Manifestos for the 21st Century', Serpentine Gallery Pavillon, London, UK
'Archetypes and Icons', Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, US
'Lugares comprometidos: Topografia y actualidad', Galerie Barbican, Madrid, Spain
'Park Nights Manifesto Marathon', Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
'Geschlossene Gesellschaft', KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
'Memory is Your Image of Perfection', Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
'Close Encounter: Facing the Future', Provisions Library, Washington US
'When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time', Johann Konig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
'Gwangju Biennale', Gwangju, Korea

2007
Park Nights Manifesto Marathon’, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
'Geschlossene Gesellschaft', KW Institue of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
'NUMBER ONE: Destroy, she said’, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Memory Is Your Image of Perfection', Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
'Concept: Photography – Dialogues & Attitudes', Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
'Insight?', Gagosian Gallery at Bar Vikha Luxury Village, Moscow, Russia
'Crimes of Omission', Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, US

2006
'New Photography', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, US
'Down By Law', Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
'ClickDoubleClick: The Documentary Factor', Haus der Kunst, Frankfurt, DE ; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
'Middle Ground', Wallach Art Gallery at the Columbia University, New York, US

2005
'Greater New York', MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, US
'Set Up: Recent Aquisitions in Photography', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
'Reprocessing Reality – new perspectives on art and the documentary', Nyon, Switzerland

2004
'Freedom Salon', Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues, & Ideas, Deitch Projects, New York, US
'The 10 Commandments', Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
'Really True', Ruhrland Museum, Essen, Germany
'True lies', Lügen und andere Wahrheiten in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, NL ; Museum München, Munich, Germany

2003
'How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era', International Center of Photography, New York, US

2002
Seibu, Tokyo

2000
Mitsubishi-Jisho, Fukuoka, Japan

2001
Kobe Museum, Kobe, Japan

1999
Mitsukoshi, Tokyo Festival International des Arts d'Hyères, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France

Public Collections

MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Tate Modern, London, UK
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
Museum für Monderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
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Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
DZ Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US
Margulies Collection, Miami, US
Nation Media Museum, Bradford, UK
Olbricht Collection, Essen, Germany
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
Wilson Centre of Photography, London New South Wales, Australia         
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Brown University, Providence, RI, US
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, US
DHC/ART Fondation pour l'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.

In 1999, she became a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships, recognizing her exceptional contribution to the development of visual arts, particularly photography, in the United States.

After working for a period in magazines and newspapers, Tarin Simon immersed herself in her own projects, which ultimately brought her worldwide fame and recognition.

The daily sorting, labeling, borrowing, and reclassifying of millions of physical images inform a crude algorithm by which raw materials have been digested and transmitted back into American culture, reshaping it in the process.

For nearly a decade, Taryn Simon has immersed herself in the history of the Collection, combing through hundreds of letters, memos, and records that reveal an untold story of radical access to visual material long before the advent of Internet search engines.

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
'Making it Up: Photographs from the Michael and Jane Wilson Trust Collection,' PHOTO LA, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Durch die Blume-Florale Metamorphosen', Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany 'Civilization: The Way We Live Now', Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 

2018
'Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11', Imperial War Museum, London, UK
'EATME', Trapholt - Musuem of Modern Art and Design, Kolding, Denmark
'Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today', Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, US 
'Inside Out: Photography and Psychology', DZ Bank Kunstammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
'The Future Starts Here', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
'Tubology: Our Lives in Tubes', Frac Grand Large—Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
'Scripted Reality', Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
'The World to Come: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Anthropocene,' Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, US 
'Germ City: Microbes, Migration, and the Metropolis', Museum of the City of New York, New York, US
'Hold Still: The Photographic Performance', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 
'Tubologie: Nous vies dans les tubes', FRAC Grand Large, Hauts-de-France, France
'Nothing Stable Under Heaven', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
'The Poetry of Silence: Elegance, Meditation & Photography', FOTOFAIRS, San Francisco, CA, US
'About Photography', Gagosian, San Francisco, CA, US
'Zeitspuren: The Power of Now', Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland.
'Hotspots: Radioactivity in the Landscape', University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, US
'Evidence of Contemporary Disquiet.', Fondazione Mudima/Goethe Institut/ Church of San Giuseppe alle Scalze a Pontecorv, Naples, Italy
'Control', Auckland Photography Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
'The World’s Game', Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, US
'Look Again: 45 Years of Collecting Photography', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, US
'Hello World: Revising a Collection', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
'Nothing Stable Under Heaven', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
'Civilization: The Way We Live Now,' Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; traveled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia   

2017
'The Arcades : Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin', The Jewish Museum, New York, US
'State of the World', Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
'Invisible Cities', Miriam and Ira D.

Wallach Art Gallery, New York, US
'Gutes Sterben-Falscher Tod', Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
'The Flower Show', Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, RI, US
'Spectre du surréalisme - Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles', Arles, France
'The Faces: A Search for Clues', Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
'What Does the Image Stand For?, curated by Ami Barak - Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal', Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
'FOOD – The Super Metaphor of our Time', Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design, South Jutland, Denmark
'Leonard Cohen : Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything', Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
'Electronic Superhighway', Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
'Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11', Imperial War Museum, London, UK
'Eat Me', Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design, Kolding, Denmark

2016
'The Flower Show', Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI, US 
'Animality', Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
'A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age', George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, US

2015
'Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim', Solomon R.

Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
'All the World's Futures', curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
'Forensics: The anatomy of crime', Wellcome Collection, London, England
'In Focus: Animalia',  The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Theories on Forgetting', Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, US
'America is Hard to See', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
'Americana', FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, FR
'Open/Rhapsody: A Journey into Photography and Video Collections', Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
'Boom She Boom, Works from the MMK Collection', MMK, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
'Sebald Variations', CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
'Duddell's Presents: ICA Off-Site: Hong Kongese', Duddell's, Hong Kong, China

2014
'Conflict, Time, Photography', Tate Modern, London, UK
'In Context: The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice', Wellin Museum, Clinton, New York, US
'Death is your Body', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
'THE BEGINNING / END-STATES', Sgorbati Projects, New York, US
'Crime in the Art', MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
'Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime', Wellcome Collection, London, UK
'Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns', Scottsdale MoCA, Scottsdale, AZ, US
'Now You See It: Photography and Concealment', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US                           
'G I R L' (curated by Pharrell Williams), Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
'Brown University 250th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition Part 2: Sarah Morris, Robert Reynolds, Taryn Smith', David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, US
'In The Beginning / End-States', Sgorbati Projects, New York, US
‘Darren bader: Photographs I Like’, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, US
‘Paris Photo L.A.’, Paramount Pictures Studio, Los Angeles, US
‘PANOPTICUM’, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US

2013
'Taryn Simon: Works from the Economou Collection', George Economou Collection Space, Athens, Greece
'global aCtIVISm', Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
'Politic is Personal', Stonescape, Napa, CA, US
'2013 Carnegie International', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, US
'In the Scéance Room: Acquisition Highlights from 2003-2013', MACSD Downtown, San Diego, CA, US
'19 rue de Saintonge', Almine Rech, Paris, France
'My Aim Is True', The Frostig Center, Pasadena, CA, US
'Maintenance Required', The Kitchen (with the Whitney), New York, US
'The Red Queen', Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Australia
'XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography', Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

2012
'Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography', Paradise Row, London, UK
'Chronicles of a Disappearance', DHC/ART Foundation, Montreal, Canada
'An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography', Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, US
'Töten', Kunstpalais Stadt Erlangen, Palais Stutterheim, Erlangen, Germany
'Remote Control: Art, TV and Mass Consumerism', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

2011
'Seeing is believing', KW, Berlin, Germany
'Role Models – Role playng', Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Australia
'Speech Matter', Danish Pavillion, 54 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Singapore Biennial, Singapore, Malaysia 
'Prix Pictet – Growth', Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy 
'Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography', Tallinn Kunstihoone Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
'Singapore Biennale 2011: Open House', NAtional Museum of Singapore, SAM@8Q and the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Malaysia
'Crime Unseen', Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, US

2010
'True Fiction', The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, US
'How soon is now ?', The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
'Rethinking Location', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
'In focus: Tasteful Pictures', The J.

Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
'Pleasure Point', Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
'Meet Me Inside', Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, US
'Respublica.

Who is Taryn Simon?

Taryn Simon is an American artist.

Designing a Cybermachine for the Twenty-First Century', Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
'Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs',  J. She promoted the use of pictures as documents that needed to be put to work.

Seeing voids in the mainstream recounting of the American story, Javitz built a vast repository of overlooked subjects.

Tarin Simon stated, "The ability of photography to blur the line between truth and fiction is its most compelling quality. The act of photography suspended the Collection’s flux, making explicit the unexpected meanings derived from its accidental juxtapositions. Danish Pavilion,' Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
'Contraband,' Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, US
‘Taryn Simon’, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
‘An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2010
‘Contraband’, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium; Lever House Art Collection, New York, NY, US; Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA, US
‘An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar’, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

2009
‘An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; H Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, US

2008
‘An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar’, Almine Rech, Paris, France; Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA, US.; Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007
‘An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar’, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Photographers Gallery, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US.; Art Foyer, DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

2006
‘Taryn Simon: Nonfiction’, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, US
‘The Innocents’, Portraits, Provisions Library, Washington DC; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US; Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

2005
‘The Innocents’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, US; Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, The Netherlands

2004
‘The Innocents’, Contemporary Arts Center, Pharos Art Trust, Cyprus, Greece; Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA, US; Gagosian Gallery, London; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

2003
‘The Innocents’, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, US; The Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN, US
‘The Innocents (and other works)’, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
‘Taryn Simon: Portraits’, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, US

2001
‘Taryn Simon’, Camerawork, Berlin, Germany

1997
‘Pornograph’, The RISD Museum, Providence, MA, US
The List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, MA, US

Group Exhibitions

2025
'FLOWERS.

More than anyone, Javitz shaped the identity of the Collection through her trailblazing, nonhierarchical approach to images. The Picture Collection’s democratic systems of classification were designed to be responsive to its users, whose specific requests and interventions have determined its composition. Simon’s artisticmediumconsists of threeequal elements: photography, text, and graphic design.

It was during Javitz’s tenure that photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, and Dorothea Lange contributed their own pictures to the Collection. The forgotten, central figure who emerges from these documents is Romana Javitz, who instigated the Picture Collection’s growth and egalitarian values during her decades-long crusade as its superintendent.

(These were removed from public circulation beginning in the 1980s when their cultural and marketplace value became apparent.) The Picture Collection also became a secret haven for artists like Diego Rivera, Joseph Cornell, and Andy Warhol, who infamously borrowed hundreds of pictures he never returned.

Excavating Picture Collection subject folders such as “Broken Objects,” “Rear Views,” and “Waiting Rooms,” Simon physically arranged their contents into overlapped arrays and photographed them.

Simon is married to the screenwriter and director Jake Paltrow, the brother of Gwyneth Paltrow.

Simon’s photographs and writing have been the subject of monographicexhibitions at institutionsincludingMuseum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; WhitneyMuseum of American Art, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.

Her work investigates the impossibility of absoluteunderstanding and the ambiguitiesbetween text and image.