Taryn Simon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Taryn Simon
Occupation	American Artist
Date Of Birth	Feb 4, 1975(1975-02-04)
Age	49
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Taryn Simon Biography

Taryn Simon is one of the most popular and richest American artist who was born on February 4, 1975 in New York, United States. Taryn Simon (born April 4 1975) is an American artist working in multidisciplinary fields. She is a photographer, text sculpture, performance, and performance.

Black Square (2006-) is a ongoing project where Simon is collecting objects, documents and even individuals in an unlit black field with exactly the same dimensions as Kazimir Malevich’s suprematist work of 1915 that bears the same name.

was produced over a four-year period (2008–2011), during which Simon traveled around the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen ‘chapters’ that make up the work, the external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects documented by Simon include feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son Uday, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate.

Contraband is “an archive of global desires and perceived threats, encompassing 1,075 images of items that were detained or seized from airline passengers and postal mail entering the United States” from abroad, “taken at both the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York.” From November 16 through 20, 2009, Simon “remained at JFK and continuously photographed items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the United States from abroad.”

The book includes 70 colour plates as well as a foreword written from Salman Rushdie. Ronald Dworkin wrote a commentary and curators Elisabeth Sussman and Tina Kukielski of the Whitney Museum of American Art composed an introduction. The book came out by Steidl and was exhibited by the Whitney Museum of American Art in the year 2006. In 2007, it was displayed in the Museum fur Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. She talked about the project with photographer and historian Geoffrey Batchen for the 8th volume of Museo.

Taryn Simon Net Worth

Taryn Simon is one of the richest American Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Taryn Simon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Simon is a native of New York City and attended Brown University, where she began studying environmental studies prior to finishing with an honors degree in art semiotics. While at Brown she was began taking photographic classes offered by the nearby Rhode Island School of Design. She earned her BA in 1997.

Simon was assigned the task of to photograph men who were wrongly found guilty of a crime by New York Times Magazine in 2000. The assignment inspired her to study the role of photography within law enforcement and the justice system. She was accepted for an Guggenheim Fellowship which allowed her to travel throughout in the United States photographing and interviewing people who were wrongly sentenced. The film Innocents depicts people that were executed or given life sentences mostly because of a mistaken identity who were acquitted and released when DNA evidence showed their innocence. Simon captured the subjects at locations relevant to their convictions for example, the scene that led to the incident, misidentification of the suspect, an alibi, or arrest. The photographs were published as a book , and was shown in museums and galleries like MoMA PS1, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Gagosian Gallery and many more.

Brian De Palma asked Simon to take the photograph that is the last shot of his 2007 film Redacted. She traveled to Jordan to shoot a young Iraqi actress, Zahra Zubaidi, posed as if lying raped and burned, the victim of American soldiers. […] Zubaidi has received death threats from family members, who consider Redacted pornographic, and is seeking asylum in the U.S. Simon arranged for the photograph to be shown at [2011]’s Venice Biennale to draw attention to Zubaidi’s situation.

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Taryn Ranked on the list of most popular American artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Taryn Simon celebrates birthday on February 4 of every year.

The photographs and sculptures of Paperwork and the Will of Capital (2015) take as their subject matter the signings of political accords, contracts, treaties, and decrees in which powerful men flank floral centerpieces curated to convey the importance of the signatories and the institutions they represent. The signings that inform Paperwork and the Will of Capital involve the countries present at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which addressed the globalization of economies after World War II. This led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.