Discipline: Visual Art – photography

Simen Johan

Discipline: Visual Art – photography
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003, 2009

Solo exhibitions of Simen Johan’s artwork have been presented at The Center for Photography, Ykaterinburg, Russia; Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden; Olsen Gallery, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN; David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, Providence, RI; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; and the Pollock Gallery at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Brooklyn Museum in New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; Brandts Museum of Photographic Art, Odense, Denmark; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Denver Art Museum; and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, among others. The artist has received several awards, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and a fellowship from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation at Brown University. Simen was born in 1973 in Kirkenes, the extreme north of Norway, and currently lives and works in New York. In residence in 2009, he worked on a series of images and sculptures entitled "Until the Kingdom Comes" exhibited at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.

Studios

New Hampshire

Simen Johan worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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