Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her highly acclaimed and influential work, The Innocents, documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States and investigates photography's role in that process.

Taryn Simons' most recent work, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, reveals that which is integral to America's foundation, mythology and daily functioning, but remains inaccessible or unknown to a public audience. Her earlier work, The Innocents, documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States and investigates photography's role in that process. Simon's photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

Permanent collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Simon is represented by Gagosian Gallery.

DLD Arts Projects 09 contribution: American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Installation (2009).

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