SOLO EXHIBITION

2022 BLANC GALLERY, Archive Of Digital Portraits Cast In Concrete | New York, NY

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2023 CONSTRUCT3D, Tinkering | New York, NY

2023 BULK SPACE, Moral Material | Detroit, MI

2023 CULTURALLY ARTS COLLECTIVE, Mapping Reality | Virtual

2023 ACCESSIBLE OBJECTS, 2123: Naive Futures | New York, NY

2023 BLANC GALLERY, Artists Are Talking | New York, NY

2023 370J WINDOWS | New York, NY

2022 FOX 2 GALLERY, We Are Everywhere | Baltimore, MD

2022 BLANC GALLERY, Scripting | New York, NY

2020 ACCESSIBLEOBJECTS.COM, Accessible Objects | Virtual

2019 GALLATIN GALLERIES, Gallatin Arts Festival | New York, NY

2018 GALLATIN GALLERIES, Gallatin Arts Festival | New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 FISCHMAN GALLERY, Greenspace | Johnson City, TN

2023 SHEILA & RICHARD RIGGS GALLERY, Outside In  | Baltimore, MD

2023 HONOR FRASER, Queer Ecologies | Los Angeles, CA

2023 HOT SHOT MUFFLER, CultureHub Re-Fest | Los Angeles, CA

2023 LA MAMA GALLERIA, CultureHub Re-Fest | New York, NY

2022 THE SPARE ROOM, The Spare Room | Baltimore, MD

2022 ACCESSIBLE OBJECTS, 447a State St. | Brooklyn, NY

2022 MICA GALLERIES, Exquisite Corpse Unveiling | Baltimore, MD

PERFORMANCES 

2024 MICA, Useless Machines Workshop | Baltimore, MD

2023 SHEILA & RICHARD RIGGS GALLERY, Watering Windows XP Bliss Background | Baltimore, MD

2023 MICA, Manually Inflated Failure Vest | Baltimore, MD

2022 BASED IN, Inhabiting Paradox | New York, NY

2022 MICA, Failure Room | Baltimore, MD

2021 HERE ARTS CENTER & HB STUDIO, Performing Algorithms | New York, NY

2019 PIONEER WORKS, print(dialogue) | Brooklyn, NY

2019 MAX MEDIA ART XPLORATION, print(dialogue) | New York, NY

2019 CULTUREHUB, print(dialogue) | New York, NY

2017 EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL, Staging Wittgenstein | Edinburgh, Scotland

2017 THE JERRY H. LABOVITZ THEATRE, Staging Wittgenstein | New York, NY

2017 DIXON PLACE, Staging Wittgenstein | New York, NY

2016 DURF GRANT SHOWCASE, Staging Wittgenstein | New York, NY

INCLUSION IN PUBLICATION

2024 CultureHub Read, “Scammed with Authenticity,” by Shuang Cai

2024 Australian Arts Review, “On the Couch with Nathan Sawaya” 

2024 ARTFORUM, “11:50 - A Curated Student Show,” by artguide

2024 MeetNYU, “Tisch Interactive Media Arts: Everything You Need to Know,” By Kathryn Lee

2024 IMA Instagram, “Faculty Spotlight: Blair Simmons” 

2024 Composition, Issue #21, “Taking the Challenge,” authored by MICA

2024 ITP Thesis Presentation, presented by Joann Myung

2024 Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, edited by Lilian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, MIT Press

2023 Newswires, “THE LIU SHIMING ART FOUNDATION IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE FIRST EVER LIU SHIMING ART GRANT,” by Spurgeon Consulting

2023 Art Spiel, “The Liu Shiming Foundation Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Acclaimed Sculptor Liu Shiming Through Supporting Emerging Artists,” by Art Spiel

2023 Art Frankly, “Blair Simmons & Eden Chinn - Artists; Curatorial,” by Alexa Scull

2023 ArtReview, “The Art of ‘A Little Digital Death,” by Jenny Wu

2023 CanvasRebel, “Meet Shuang Cai,” 

2023 Tisch News, "’Queer Knowing’ Gallery Opening, Curated By ITP Alum, Resident, And Faculty”

2023 Tisch News, "’Why is Everyone Breaking Up Right Now?’ Pop-Up Art Installation”

2023 MICA News, “Outside In”

2023 BMORE Arts Instagram, Outside In Feature

2023 NYTimes, “An Art Show That Asks, ‘Why Is Everyone Breaking Up Right Now?’”

2023 Liu Shiming Art Foundation, “The Liu Shiming Artist Blair Simmons: Useless Machines, A Curated Student Show”

2023 Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, edited by Nick Montfort

2022 Accessible Objects, Second Edition

2022 TheBlanc, “Scripting”

2022 Adjacent, Issue 7, “The Adjacent Interview with Blair Simmons x Molly Ritmiller”

2022 Composition, Issue #4, “Divine bilateral”

2021 The Minute Review, Vol. 2 No. 2, “Review print(dialogue)” by Nick Montfort

2020 CultureHub First Decade 2010-2020 

2020 Interim, Vol. 35, Issue 2, The Body Issue, “Holding or Reaching from Dis(re)membered”

2020 Que Será, Issue 04

2020 Accessible Objects, First Edition

2019 Gallatin Today, “Putting Research on Its Feet”

2019 Ste(a)m Zine, Vol. 2, Editor-in-Chief

2019 Confluence, “Outputs from print(dialogue)”

2019 Abydos Diary, “Photogrammetry is the New Archaeological Photography: 3D Modeling at Abydos”

2018 Ste(a)m Zine, Vol. 1,  Editor-in-Chief

2018 Gallatin Review, Cover of Vol. 33, Working

2018 PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research: Vol. 2 : Iss. 1, Article 8

2017 Cennarium: In Performance, “Latex Balloons Become ‘Pop’ Art”

2017 USA Today, “Fascinating performance art in Scotland”

2017 The Times of London, “The News in Pictures”

2017 The Guardian (in print, page 10), “Balloonatics”

2017 The Telegraph, “Pictures of the Day: 10 August 2017”

2017 NEWSru.co.il, “Шоу баллонов на театральном фестивале "Фриндж" в Эдинбурге”

2017 L'Alchimie Du Verbe, “Staging Wittgenstein”

2017 Miro Magazine, “Edinburgh Fringe 2017 Spotlight: Staging Wittgenstein”

2017 The New Current, “EdFringe70 Interview: Blair Simmons Staging Wittgenstein”

2017 Broadway World, “3-D Balloon Theatre Experiment STAGING WITTGENSTEIN to Play Edinburgh 

Fringe”

2017 The Vile Blog, “Dramaturgy of Wittgenstein: Blair Simmons @ Edfringe 2017”, Gareth Vile

2017 Confluence, “On Human Fragility and Balloons”

2017 Confluence, “from Staging Wittgenstein”

2017 The NYU Alumni Blog, on Creating “Staging Wittgenstein” 

2017 SG Fringe, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 Edinburgh Guide, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 ThreeWeeks, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 The Wee Review, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 The Scotsman, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 The List, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 EdFringe Review.com, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 British Theatre Guide, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2017 Broadway Baby, “Staging Wittgenstein, Review”

2016 The Blotter, “Staging Wittgenstein”

2016 Inquiry, Vol. XX, “Staging Wittgenstein”

2015 Medical Dialogue Review, Vol. 17 (in print, page 31)

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2024 BLANC GALLERY, 11:59, Lead Curator

2024 CULTUREHUB, 1-800-I-WAS-SCAMMED.COM, Co-Curator

2023 SHEILA & RICHARD RIGGS GALLERY, Outside In, Author of Curatorial Statement

2023 ALL STREET, Queer Anxieties, Co-Curator

2023 ALL STREET, Queer Knowing, Curator

2023 BLANC GALLERY, Useless Machines, Curator

2023 ALLINONE COLLECTIVE’S THE PORTAL, why is everyone breaking up right now?,  Lead Curator

2022 PRATT INSTITUTE, HASTAC 2020 | Critical Making & Social Justice, Application Reviewer

2022 BLANC GALLERY, Materialism, Jury Member

2020 CULTUREHUB, Residency Member Selection, Jury Member

2014 MIDDLE EAST NOW, Florence Film Festival, Jury MemberAWARDS & GRANTS

2024 Grant to Hire Undergraduate Researcher

2024 Dean’s Conference/Workshop Travel Grant

2023 Liu Shiming Art Grant

2023 MICA Student Leader

2022 Give-A-Violet Award Nominee

2021 ARTXCODE Microgrant

2019 Recipient of the Leo Bronstein Homage Award

2019 Recipient of the Horn Fund for Environmental Research

2018 Dean's Award for Summer Research 

2018 Gallatin Unsung Hero Award

2018 Writing Program Prize for Visual Arts 

2016 DURF Grant Recipient & Presenter

2002 Camp Marston Star Camper Award 5 Years Running ☆

RESIDENCIES

2024 MICA MFAST | Baltimore, MD

2023 MICA MFAST | Baltimore, MD

2022 MICA MFAST | Baltimore, MD

2022 Rhizomatica | Brooklyn, NY

2022 Water as Technology Residency | Brooklyn, NY

2020 HB Studio Residency | New York, NY

2020 Gallatin Alumni Artist Residency | New York, NY

2019 CultureHub Residency | New York, NY

2019 The Failaka Institute of Knowledge and Arts Research | Kuwait City, Kuwait

2018 MIT Trope Tank Research Resident | Cambridge, MA

GUEST LECTURES

2021 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, Acting in Computational Theater, Prof. Lisa Nathans (Intro to Acting) 

2021 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, On Computational & Iterative Creative Research, Prof. Shannon Leah Collis 

2020 PARSONS, On Computational & Iterative Creative Research, Prof. Ashley Jane Lewis

2020 NYU GALLATIN, Directing Computational Theater, Prof. Kristin Horton (Directing 101)

TALKS

2023 THURSDAY NIGHT TALK, Artist Talk: Blair Simmons, ITP/IMA NYU

2023 OPENAIR CARBON REMOVAL CHALLENGE, Sustainable Fabrication and Fabrication Problem-Solving

2023 BLANC TALKS, Blair Simmons on Archive of Digital Portraits Cast in Contexts, Blanc Gallery

2021 BROWN UNIVERSITY, Artist Talk & Workshop, ArtScience Collaborative

2021 ARTXCODE, Interview Series 002

2021 MOZFEST, print(dialogue) in dialogue

2019 WORKHACK AT BABYCASTLES, print(dialogue) in dialogue, Curated by Todd Anderson

2019 NYU INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, 3D Scanning in Abydos, Egypt

2019 CEFAS FRENCH MISSION IN KUWAIT, 3D Scanning & Modeling, Curated by Sulayman Al Bassam

PANELS 

2024 Symposium of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Panelist, NYU

2023 RE-FEST, Long Table Discussion, CultureHub NYC

2022 MICA, Fine Art MFA Program Session

2022 BRUCE MUSEUM, The Future of Art/Science

2021 NYU GALLATIN, Alumni Panel

2020 NYU GALLATIN, Lunch and Learn 

2019 THE YARD, An Interview on Cyan Sun

2017 NYU COURANT, Math and Computer Science Wasserman Panel

2016 NYU CAS, CAS DURF Research Conference Panel

GUEST CRITIC

2024 Season II 2024 Cohort, Guest Critic | NARS Foundation, New York, NY

2024 Energy (prof. Jeffery Fedderson), Guest Critic | NYU, New York, NY

2022 Large Scale Kinetic Installation (prof. Phil Caridi), Guest Critic | NYU, New York, NY

2022 Feedback Collective, Guest Critic | NYU ITP/IMA

2022 Immersive Experiences (prof. Sarah Rothberg), Guest Critic | SVA, New York, NY

2022 Products Brand & Experience (prof. Hlynur Atlason), Guest Critic | NYU, New York, NY