David Simonton, Raleigh, North Carolina
MAJOR COLLECTIONS
- Fidelity Investments, Boston/ 14 Photographs, Purchase, 2008
- NC Museum of Art, Raleigh/ 15 Photographs, Purchase, 2003
GRANTS
- Visual Artist Fellowship/ NC Arts Council/ 2000-01, 2008-09
- Regional Artist Project Grant/ UAC of Raleigh and Wake County/ 1998-99
- Emerging Artists Program Grant/ Raleigh Arts Commission/ 1994-95
HONORS
- CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography/ Semifinalist/ 2002, 2004
- Commission, NC Museum of Art/ Polk Prison Documentation/ 2000-01
- Visiting Artist, Fort Hancock/ Sandy Hook, NJ/ 1994
- Ellis Island Project: Documentation/Interpretation/ Participant/ 1988-89
AWARDS (Competitions & Publications)
- THIRD PRIZE—Photocentric/ Garrison Art Center, NY/ 2009/ JURORS: Malcolm Daniel, Metropolitan Museum; Alice Rose George, NYC
- HONORABLE MENTION—Onward/ Project Basho, Philadelphia/ 2009/ Peter Barberie, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- JUROR AWARD—Photography Now/ Lexington Art League, KY/ 2007/ Sam Abell, Photographer
- FIRST PRIZE—Alligator Juniper (Literary Magazine), Photography Competition Issue/ Prescott, AZ/ 2007/ Robert Hirsch, Director of Light Research
- FIRST PRIZE—Photospiva/ Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO/ 2004/ Therese Mulligan, George Eastman House
- JUROR AWARD (SECOND PRIZE)—Center Awards Exhibition/ Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA/ 2002/ Weston Naef, J. Paul Getty Museum
- BEST IN SHOW—Photo National/ Lancaster Museum of Art, PA/ 2002/ Therese Mulligan, Jeanne Verhulst, George Eastman House
- THIRD PRIZE—The Photo Review, Competition Issue/ 2002/ Melissa Harris, Aperture
- AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE—Photowork/ Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie/ 1999/ Howard Greenberg, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC
- FIRST PRIZE—NC Photographers Annual/ Raleigh/ 1993/ Jeff Rosenheim, Metropolitan Museum
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (NC)
- Staying the Night: Black-and-White Photographs (1994-2006)/ North Carolina Gallery, Rocky Mount Arts Center/ 2007
- Night and Day: Recent Photographs from North Carolina/ Miriam Block Gallery, Raleigh/ 2001
- Ellis Island: A Singular Passage/ NC State University College of Design, Raleigh/ 1999
- New Work: Photographs from North Carolina/ ArtsCenter, Carrboro/ 1997
- Photographs from 25 Years/ Council for the Arts, Jacksonville/ 1997
INVITATIONAL & JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
My work has been included in more than 100 group exhibitions since 1990. A detailed listing is here.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- SHOTS Magazine #108/ Summer 2010
- Photography Quarterly, "Photography Now"/ Center for Photography at Woodstock/ 2002/ Selected by Robert Mann, Robert Mann Gallery, NYC
- The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South/ University of Southern Mississippi/ Portfolio, with essay by Huston Paschal, Associated Curator of Modern Art, NCMA/ 1999
LECTURES
- NC Museum of Art/ "Time Served: The Evolution of a Documentary Project"/ Public Lecture/ 2009
- NC Museum of Art/ "Contemporary Fine Art Photography"/ Docent Lecture/ 2007
- Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC/ "The Photographer's Eye" Series/ Public Lecture/ 2005
TEACHING (Photography)
- Peace College, Raleigh/ Adjunct Faculty/ 1997-2009
- NC State University Craft Center, Raleigh/ Instructor/ 1993-2001
- NC Museum of History, Raleigh/ Workshop, Documentary Photography/ 1999
ADDITIONAL COLLECTIONS
- Ellis Island Immigration Museum, NY
- Museum of York County, Rock Hill, SC
- City of Rocky Mount, NC
A complete résumé is available here [pdf].
with Harry Callahan (1992)