Lives and works in Cincinnati, OH & Chicago, IL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2010

• “Stupa Duplicator”, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

2009

• “Exhausted” Open Satellite, Bellevue, WA
• “Sylvis Capitalis”, Kielder Forest, Northumberland, England
• “Livin’ for the City”, Hartmann Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

2008

• “Wigloo”, with Chris Vorhees, at NADA Art Fair with Country Club, Miami, FL
• “The Marfa Sessions: Sounds Across Town” with Steve Rowell, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, TX

2006

• “Gloom and Doom with Steve Rowell”, dual location exhibition at Contemporary Arts Center and Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2003

• Clean Livin’, Permanent installation for Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT

1999

• “The Unit”, Permanent installation for Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT

1997

• “New Mexico Arts”, sight-specific work, Anthony, NM

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2010

• “Pictures & Statues”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• “Kitty Cat Extravaganza”, Thunder-Sky, Inc, Cincinnati, OH

2009

• NADA Art Fair with Country Club, Miami, FL
• “Grand Respectacle”, Tex Hex Water Unit event and houseboat project in collaboration with The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Houston TX

2008

• “Heartland”, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
• “Homecoming”, ArtWorks Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
• “Out There: Architecture Beyond Building”, 11th International Architecture Biennale Exhibition, Venice, Italy
• “Home Office”, with Chris Vorhees, NEXT Fair, Chicago, IL
• “The Last Supper”, with Chris Vorhees, Publico, Cincinnati, OH

2007

• “I will be alright”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• “Hydromancy with Steve Rowell”, Rubin Center Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
• “Out On the Weekend: The Taking of Leisure Mountain”, project with Chris Vorhees & Academy Records, Depauw Biennial, Greencastle, IN
• “drum ‘n’ basin”, Greenland Street, A Foundation, Liverpool, England
• “Once Upon a Time in the Midwest”, collaboration with SANDBOX Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• “School of Art Faculty Show”, Reed Gallery University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

2006

• “Shock and Awe with Steve Rowell”, site-specific project for Year ‘06, London Art Fair, Mary Ward House
• “Negotiated Localities”, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

2005

• “Dirty Water Initiative”, InSITE, San Diego, USA/Tijuana, Mexico
• “Hot House”, Tate Modern Untitled Gallery, London, England

2004

• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2003

• “Speculative Chicago, A Compendium of Architectural Innovation”, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

2002

• “Session the Bowl”, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
• “Documenta XI”, Kassel, Germany
• “Free Basin and Spec Mood River”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

2001

• “Spec”, an acoustic collaboration between SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2000

• “Free Basin”, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL

1998

• “Ship from the Desert, The Moorings Project”, Maschinenhalle, Potsdam, Germany
• “SIMPARCH”, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
• “L’Arche”, Ecole Nationale d’Art, Cergy, France
• “It Is What It Is”, Mesilla, NM

1997

• “Rise Overrun”, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM
• “An Investigation of Trans-Architecture in the Western American Highwayscape”, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

1996

• “1996 Sculpture Project”, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
• “Sculpture in the Age of Plastics”, Mesilla Park, NM
• “AleRT 1996, Offsite”, Santa Fe, NM
• “Close to the Border”, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, juried by Thomas Sokolowsky, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX
• “Just Lookin’ is Just Fine”, Mesilla, NM

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009

• On the Banks of Bayou City. The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston. (illustration)
• “Houston Report from the Center’s Gulf State’s Field Office”. The Lay of The Land, Center for Land Use Interpretation (photographs)

2007

• Borden, Iain. “What is a Thing?”. (essay) The A Foundation Bulletin. Fall 2007
• SIMPARCH: Hydromancy. (Exhibition Catalog) University of Texas Press ) with essay by Ben Nicholson (photographs)
• Curran, Gez. “SIMPARCH, Drum and Basin”. Document (skate magazine) Dec. 2007 (photographs, including cover)

2006

• Gabrys, Jennifer. essay. Surface Tension Supplement No.1
• Spaid, Sue. “SIMPARCH”. ArtUS: October-November, 62 (photos)
• Kaizaad Kotwal. “Exhibition Has Context of Conflict”. The Columbus Dispatch, August 27
• Chasin, Noah. “This is Punk Rock Architecture”. Art Review July, 47-49 (photos)

2005

• Harris, Mark. “Interview with SIMPARCH”. Miser and Now. #5:76 (photos)

2004

• Mittleman, Paul. “Being-in-the-Pool”. Yard. Fall, 28 (photos, cover)
• Arkitip #24, limited edition publication. SIMPARCH feature
• Hartlaub, Peter. “No worries about being ejected from ‘free basin,’ a show where grinding and thrashing are a must”. San Francisco Chronicle. Thursday, August 5 (photos)
• Ullrich, Polly. “SIMPARCH’s Social Sculpture at Wendover Air Force Base”. Sculpture, May (photos)

2003

• Weyland, Jocko. “Bowled over, Skate punks catch the wooden wave at Deitch Projects”. Time Out, New York. Jan 9
• “Session the Bowl (Showstoppers)”. Juxtapoz. July, August, 48 (photos)
• Coleman, Cindy. Skate Logic (Centerfold)”. Interior Design. May, 232 (photos)
• Blomgren, Lance. “Interview with SIMPARCH”. Matrix. Winter, 45 (photos)
• Skruck, Jeff. “SIMPARCH Bowl”. Slap Skateboard Magazine. April (photo)
• Rosenberg, Karen. “Outside and In”. Village Voice. January 15-21, (photo)
• Cotter, Holland. “Session the Bowl” (review) The New York Times: B46 (photo)
• Wartofsky, Alona. “Extreme Art: Skateboarders turn Soho Gallery into a Kinetic Performance Piece.” The Washington Post. Feb. 12 (photo)

2002

• Hall, Peter. “Go with the Flow”. Metropolis Magazine, May
• Knight, Christopher. “All Politics, Little Art” The Los Angeles Times. July 7, 4 (photos)
• Reif, Rita. “A Swimming Pool? A Yacht? No, It’s Art”. The New York Times. March 10, 23 (photos)
• Obejas, Achy. “For Duo, Documenta is Quite a Ride”. The Chicago Tribune. July 14
• Parr, Debra Riley. “SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm” (Review). New Art Examiner. March-April, 78 (photo)
• Fredericksen, Eric. “Architecture that Shreds”. Architecture. April 2, 46 (photo)
• Ferrara, Annette. “Extreme Acts of Building”. Ten By Ten. Spring/Summer 42-45 (photo)
• Muschamp, Herbert. “Design’s Mood Swings, From Bliss to Rage”. The New York Times. Feb 14, B1 (photo)

2001

• Artner, Alan G. “Exhibit creates Space for Discreet Music.” Chicago Tribune. October 4, (photo)
• Grabner, Michelle. “SIMPARCH, Hyde Park Art Center”. Frieze. January/February, 112-3 (photo)
• “SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm: Architecturally Site-Specific Sounds” Indepth arts news. absolutearts.com. November

2000

• Carter, Jeff and Susan Giles. “Global Art, SIMPARCH”. Flash Art. November, December, 96 (photo)
• Hixson, Kathryn. Interview, SIMPARCH. New Art Examiner, November, 44 (photos including cover)
• Parr, Debra Riley. Review, SIMPARCH. New Art Examiner, November, 50 (photo)
• Reviews, Frieze. November/December:119 (uncredited photo)
• “Cars And Furniture: A Contemporary Design Survey”. New Art Examiner, October, 23 (photo)
• Postiglone, Corey. “State of the Art—Expanding the Sculptural in Chicago.” Dialogue, Sept. Oct.,15 (photo)
• Waxman, Lori. “The Art of Skateboarding.” F News-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept.,14 (photos)
• Powers, Jay. “SIMPARCH’s Free Basin: A Skater’s Perspective.” F News-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept., 15 (photos)
• WBEZ Radio, Chicago NPR Affiliate. Report and Interviews with Lia Alexopolous, Steven Badgett, Skateboarder
• Patrick Melcher, Chuck Thurow, and Hamza Walker. June 21
• Weirsema, Chris. “Simple Art, Outside the Box with the Boarders of Simparch.” New City. Chicago weekly, June 15, 38 (photo)
• Smith-Lindall, Anders. “On Exhibit: the Hyde Park Art Center Picks Up Speed.” Reader. Chicago weekly, June 2, 39 (photo)
• “Wendover Update: Architects, Writers, and Sound Archivists Work on and Around the C.L.U.I. Compound.” The Lay of the Land, The Center for Land Use Interpretation Newsletter. Summer, 3 (photo)
• Allen, Anthony. “Skate-able Art.” Big Brother Skateboarding, October 44 (photos)
• Larson, Tony. Photography by Chris Anderson. “Free Basin, Traditions Carve into Chicago.” Transworld Skateboarding, October, 198 (photos)
• “Bluetorch TV”, aired on Fox Sports, July 3

1998

• Ship from the Desert. (catalog) Hoffman, Christine, Zane Fischer, and Michael Lujan. “The Artists” and “In Conversation.” (interview) Sept.
• Park, Mike. “Getting inside the SIMPARCH trailer.” The Reader. Omaha, NE. August 20, 29 (photo)

1997

• Wilson, Malin. “Spinning Material Metaphors of Redemption.” The Albuquerque Journal North. Oct. 16, 4 (photo)
• McCloud, Kathleen. “Taking concept of shelter to preposterous edge: Simparch thrives on contradictions.” Pasatiempo, Santa Fe’s Weekly Arts and Entertainment Magazine, The Santa Fe New Mexican. Sept. 19-25, (photo)
• Fischer, Zane. “Learning from Las Cruces: A Conversation with Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett of Simparch.” Plan B Evolving Arts Newsletter. Santa Fe, NM September-October, 6+(photo)

SELECTED AWARDS/LECTURES
2010

• Visiting Artists-in-Residence, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

2009

• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, in conjunction with Open Satellite, Bellevue, WA [lecture]
• Hartmann Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL [lecture]
• Oberlin College, lecture and 1 week project “Teepeezoid” with Students [lecture & project]
• University of Cincinnati, School of Architecture and Interior Design, Cincinnati, OH [lecture]

2008

• State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY [lecture]

2007

• Illinois Arts Council Grant
• University of Houston, Houston, TX [lecture]
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN [lecture]
• Mississippi State University, MI [lecture]
• University of Texas at El Paso, TX [lecture]

2006

• Sci-Arc, Los Angeles, CA [lecture]
• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA [lecture]
• Transylvania University, Lexington, KY [lecture]
• Ohio Arts Council, Excellence Award Grant

2005

• Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY [lecture]
• Hamilton College, Clinton, NY [lecture]

2004

• University of California, San Diego, CA [lecture]
• InSITE_05, Project included several week-long residencies in Tijuana, Mexico [residency]
• Creative Capital Foundation, Project Grant

2003

• Rural Studio, Auburn University, Newbern, AL [lecture]
• Columbia College, Chicago, IL [lecture]
• University of Illinois, Chicago, IL [lecture + workshop]
• The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 6-week residencies at the Center’s site in Wendover, UT [residency]

2002

• Documenta XI, education program, Kassel, Germany [lecture]
• Creative Capital Foundation, Project Grant

2001

• Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH [lecture]

1999

• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT [lecture]
• The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 6-week residencies at the Center’s site in Wendover, UT [residency]

1998

• Brandenberischer Kunsterein, Potsdam, E.V. Potsdam, Germany: 1 month project, co-sponsored by Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM [residency]

1997

• Weber State University, Ogden, UT [lecture]
• New Mexico Arts, Public art project grant, Anthony, NM