2340 N. 133rd Street, Seattle, Washington 98133-7810
206 407-6342
info@jeffreysimmonsstudio.com
www.jeffreysimmonsstudio.com
http://jeffreysimmons.tumblr.com
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Paintings and Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle,
Washington.
2010 Apparent Horizons. Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco,
California.
2008 Nebulæ. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2005 Paintings. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2003 New Paintings. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2001 Color and Complexity. Whatcom County Museum of Art, Bellingham,
Washington. Curated by Scott Wallin.
2000 Works on Paper. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
4-malism. Artist in Residency Installation, Bellevue Art Museum,
Bellevue, Washington.
1999 Trochoids, Moirés, and Science Fiction Paintings. Greg Kucera Gallery,
Seattle, Washington.
1998 Linda Cannon Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Also 1997, 1995.
Group Exhibitions
2011 New Prints 2011. IPCNY Gallery, New York, New York. Curated by
Trenton Doyle Hancock.
2010 Paper!Awesome! Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, California.
Full Circle. Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
Made in America. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2009 A Concise History of Northwest Art. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
Washington. Curated by Rock Hushka.
On, Of or About: 50 Paper Works. Texas State University, San
Marcos. Curated by Timothy Woolsey and Mary Mikel Stump.
2008 Century 21: Dealers Choice. Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle,
Washington.
Fresh Impressionism: Art Now Inspired by Art Past. Seattle Art
Museum, Seattle, Washington. Curated by Pamela McClusky.
25th Anniversary Exhibition. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2007 Sparkle Then Fade. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Curated by Rock Hushka.
Jeffrey Simmons Unexpected Watercolors II. Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University.
Curated by Carrie E.A. Scott.
2006 Telling Stories. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
2005 Unexpected Watercolors. The Art Gym, Marylhurst University,
Marylhurst, Oregon. Co-curated by Trude Parkinson and Terri Hopkins.
2004 Paintings That Paint Themselves, or so it seems. Kresge Art Museum,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Curated by April
Kingsley.
Building Tradition. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Paperwork. Savage Art Resources, Portland, Oregon.
2003 International Abstraction: Making Painting Real. Seattle Art Museum,
Seattle, Washington. Co-curated by Marek Wieczorek, Lisa Corrin, and
Tara Young.
2001 Exponential: Four Huge Paintings. The Art Gym, Marylhurst University,
Marylhurst, Oregon. Curated by Terri Hopkins.
Gallery Artists. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2000 Ditto. James Harris Gallery Project Space, Seattle, Washington.
Painting 2000, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington.
Curated by Matthew Kangas.
1999 Hands-On Color. Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.
Curated by Brian Wallace.
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas.
It’s the New Year Show! Meyerson & Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle,
Washington.
In Sync. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
1998 Recent Acquisitions from the Northwest. Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, Washington.
Betty Bowen Award 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Washington State
Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington.
Works on Paper. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Pattern. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Group Exhibition. Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington.
1997 Seattle/Portland Black/White. Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales
Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
1996 Northwest Annual. Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington.
PONCHO Auction Invitational Exhibition. Seafirst Gallery, Seattle,
Washington.
Bibliography
2008 Beal, Suzanne. “Artist Profile: Jeffrey Simmons.” Art Ltd.,
November/December, 2008, p. 60.
Jeffrey Simmons
Hackett, Regina. “Two artists expand the experiences of abstraction at
Greg Kucera.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 17, 2008.
2008 cont’d. Graves, Jen. “Event Horizons.” The Stranger, April 15, 2008.
Graves, Jen. “Art is Art and Life is Life.” SLOG (The Stranger weblog),
January 9, 2008.
2005 Mudede, Charles. Review of Paintings at Greg Kucera. The Stranger,
October 20, 2005.
Faigin, Gary. “Jeffrey Simmons at Greg Kucera.” The Beat, KUOW
radio, Seattle. October 20, 2005. A transcript of this review is archived
at www.artdish.com.
Hackett, Regina. “Images by Simmons and Biel are eerie and
unsettling.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 14, 2005, p. 35.
Goetze, Janet. Portland Oregonian, January 6, 2005.
2004 Green, Roger. Review of Paintings that Seem to Paint Themselves….
Ann Arbor News, October 22, 2004.
2003 Hackett, Regina. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 5, 2003,
magazine section, p. 16.
Hall, Emily. “Dot Dot Dot.” The Stranger, February 20, 2003, p. 30.
Hackett, Regina. “A new breed of artists is staking out personal
space.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 14, 2003.
2002 Brown, Elizabeth and Corrin, Lisa. “The Mountain is Out.” Modern
Painters, Autumn 2002, p. 47.
Josslin, Victoria. “About Vs. Is.” www.artdish.com, November 2002.
2001 Boas, Pat. Artweek, March 2001, p. 21.
Row, D.K. Portland Oregonian, January 21, 2001, p. F2.
2000 Josslin, Victoria. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 23, 2000, p. D5.
Hackett, Regina. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 2000.
1999 Im, Soyon. Seattle Weekly, September 9, 1999, p. 47.
Fredericksen, Eric. The Stranger, January 21, 1999.
Kangas, Matthew. Seattle Times, January 15, 1999.
Hackett, Regina. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 15, 1999.
1998 Kangas, Matthew. “Jeffrey Simmons at Linda Cannon Gallery.” Art in
America, October, 1998, p. 143.
Demetre, Jim. “Too much tried and true makes gallery goer despair.”
Seattle Weekly, April 23, 1998, p. 29.
Fredericksen, Eric. The Stranger, April 2, 1998, p. 25.
1997 “Works on Paper Originally in Black & White.” Zyzzyva, Fall 1997, p.
88.
Lindberg, Ted. Preview of the Visual Arts, February/March 1997, p. 45.
1996 Kangas, Matthew. Seattle Times, April 11, 1996, p. D20.
Jeffrey Simmons
Honors and Awards
2005 Nominee, Behnke Foundation Neddy award.
2003 COLOR: Oil and Acrylic Paintings Purchase, Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs, Seattle, Washington.
2002 Artist Trust G.A.P. Grant.
1996 Betty Bowen Committee Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art
Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Collections
ADC Telecom, Minneapolis, MN.
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
City of Seattle, Portable Works Collection.
Compel Marketing, Seattle, WA.
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
King County Courthouse, Kent, WA.
Nordstrom—Chicago; Tampa; Columbus, OH; Santa Clara, CA.
SBS Associate, Seattle, WA.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
Sechcrist Design Assoc, Inc.
Sprint/Nextel
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.
University of Washington Campus Art Collection, Seattle, WA.
Volunteer
2002-2003 President, Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum.
(Active C.A.C. Executive Committee member, holding various officer
positions, from 1999-2007.)
Teaching
2005-2007 Introductory and Intermediate Drawing, North Seattle Community
College Continuing Education Program, Seattle, Washington.
2004 Studio Class: Acrylic Abstract Painting. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
Washington.
2002-2003 Painting classes, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.
2000-2003 Drawing instruction, Interior Design Department, Bellevue Community
College, Bellevue, Washington.
Jeffrey Simmons
2340 N. 133rd Street, Seattle, Washington 98133-7810
206 407-6342
info@jeffreysimmonsstudio.com
www.jeffreysimmonsstudio.com
http://jeffreysimmons.tumblr.com
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Paintings and Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle,
Washington.
2010 Apparent Horizons. Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco,
California.
2008 Nebulæ. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2005 Paintings. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2003 New Paintings. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2001 Color and Complexity. Whatcom County Museum of Art, Bellingham,
Washington. Curated by Scott Wallin.
2000 Works on Paper. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
4-malism. Artist in Residency Installation, Bellevue Art Museum,
Bellevue, Washington.
1999 Trochoids, Moirés, and Science Fiction Paintings. Greg Kucera Gallery,
Seattle, Washington.
1998 Linda Cannon Gallery, Seattle, Washington. Also 1997, 1995.
Group Exhibitions
2011 New Prints 2011. IPCNY Gallery, New York, New York. Curated by
Trenton Doyle Hancock.
2010 Paper!Awesome! Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, California.
Full Circle. Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
Made in America. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2009 A Concise History of Northwest Art. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
Washington. Curated by Rock Hushka.
On, Of or About: 50 Paper Works. Texas State University, San
Marcos. Curated by Timothy Woolsey and Mary Mikel Stump.
2008 Century 21: Dealers Choice. Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle,
Washington.
Fresh Impressionism: Art Now Inspired by Art Past. Seattle Art
Museum, Seattle, Washington. Curated by Pamela McClusky.
25th Anniversary Exhibition. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2007 Sparkle Then Fade. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Curated by Rock Hushka.
Jeffrey Simmons Unexpected Watercolors II. Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University.
Curated by Carrie E.A. Scott.
2006 Telling Stories. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
2005 Unexpected Watercolors. The Art Gym, Marylhurst University,
Marylhurst, Oregon. Co-curated by Trude Parkinson and Terri Hopkins.
2004 Paintings That Paint Themselves, or so it seems. Kresge Art Museum,
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Curated by April
Kingsley.
Building Tradition. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Paperwork. Savage Art Resources, Portland, Oregon.
2003 International Abstraction: Making Painting Real. Seattle Art Museum,
Seattle, Washington. Co-curated by Marek Wieczorek, Lisa Corrin, and
Tara Young.
2001 Exponential: Four Huge Paintings. The Art Gym, Marylhurst University,
Marylhurst, Oregon. Curated by Terri Hopkins.
Gallery Artists. Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
2000 Ditto. James Harris Gallery Project Space, Seattle, Washington.
Painting 2000, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington.
Curated by Matthew Kangas.
1999 Hands-On Color. Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.
Curated by Brian Wallace.
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas.
It’s the New Year Show! Meyerson & Nowinski Art Associates, Seattle,
Washington.
In Sync. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
1998 Recent Acquisitions from the Northwest. Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, Washington.
Betty Bowen Award 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Washington State
Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington.
Works on Paper. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Pattern. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
Group Exhibition. Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington.
1997 Seattle/Portland Black/White. Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales
Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
1996 Northwest Annual. Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington.
PONCHO Auction Invitational Exhibition. Seafirst Gallery, Seattle,
Washington.
Bibliography
2008 Beal, Suzanne. “Artist Profile: Jeffrey Simmons.” Art Ltd.,
November/December, 2008, p. 60.
Jeffrey Simmons
Hackett, Regina. “Two artists expand the experiences of abstraction at
Greg Kucera.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 17, 2008.
2008 cont’d. Graves, Jen. “Event Horizons.” The Stranger, April 15, 2008.
Graves, Jen. “Art is Art and Life is Life.” SLOG (The Stranger weblog),
January 9, 2008.
2005 Mudede, Charles. Review of Paintings at Greg Kucera. The Stranger,
October 20, 2005.
Faigin, Gary. “Jeffrey Simmons at Greg Kucera.” The Beat, KUOW
radio, Seattle. October 20, 2005. A transcript of this review is archived
at www.artdish.com.
Hackett, Regina. “Images by Simmons and Biel are eerie and
unsettling.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 14, 2005, p. 35.
Goetze, Janet. Portland Oregonian, January 6, 2005.
2004 Green, Roger. Review of Paintings that Seem to Paint Themselves….
Ann Arbor News, October 22, 2004.
2003 Hackett, Regina. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 5, 2003,
magazine section, p. 16.
Hall, Emily. “Dot Dot Dot.” The Stranger, February 20, 2003, p. 30.
Hackett, Regina. “A new breed of artists is staking out personal
space.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 14, 2003.
2002 Brown, Elizabeth and Corrin, Lisa. “The Mountain is Out.” Modern
Painters, Autumn 2002, p. 47.
Josslin, Victoria. “About Vs. Is.” www.artdish.com, November 2002.
2001 Boas, Pat. Artweek, March 2001, p. 21.
Row, D.K. Portland Oregonian, January 21, 2001, p. F2.
2000 Josslin, Victoria. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 23, 2000, p. D5.
Hackett, Regina. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 2000.
1999 Im, Soyon. Seattle Weekly, September 9, 1999, p. 47.
Fredericksen, Eric. The Stranger, January 21, 1999.
Kangas, Matthew. Seattle Times, January 15, 1999.
Hackett, Regina. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 15, 1999.
1998 Kangas, Matthew. “Jeffrey Simmons at Linda Cannon Gallery.” Art in
America, October, 1998, p. 143.
Demetre, Jim. “Too much tried and true makes gallery goer despair.”
Seattle Weekly, April 23, 1998, p. 29.
Fredericksen, Eric. The Stranger, April 2, 1998, p. 25.
1997 “Works on Paper Originally in Black & White.” Zyzzyva, Fall 1997, p.
88.
Lindberg, Ted. Preview of the Visual Arts, February/March 1997, p. 45.
1996 Kangas, Matthew. Seattle Times, April 11, 1996, p. D20.
Jeffrey Simmons
Honors and Awards
2005 Nominee, Behnke Foundation Neddy award.
2003 COLOR: Oil and Acrylic Paintings Purchase, Office of Arts and Cultural
Affairs, Seattle, Washington.
2002 Artist Trust G.A.P. Grant.
1996 Betty Bowen Committee Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art
Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Collections
ADC Telecom, Minneapolis, MN.
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
City of Seattle, Portable Works Collection.
Compel Marketing, Seattle, WA.
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
King County Courthouse, Kent, WA.
Nordstrom—Chicago; Tampa; Columbus, OH; Santa Clara, CA.
SBS Associate, Seattle, WA.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
Sechcrist Design Assoc, Inc.
Sprint/Nextel
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.
University of Washington Campus Art Collection, Seattle, WA.
Volunteer
2002-2003 President, Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum.
(Active C.A.C. Executive Committee member, holding various officer
positions, from 1999-2007.)
Teaching
2005-2007 Introductory and Intermediate Drawing, North Seattle Community
College Continuing Education Program, Seattle, Washington.
2004 Studio Class: Acrylic Abstract Painting. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
Washington.
2002-2003 Painting classes, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington.
2000-2003 Drawing instruction, Interior Design Department, Bellevue Community
College, Bellevue, Washington.