The Red Books, 2019. Published volumes of "The American Film Institute’s Catalog of Motion Pictures," custom table, duvetyne, gels, LED party lights, 120 x 120 x 111 inches (304.8 x 304.8 x 281.9 cm). Installed at King's Leap, Brooklyn, NY, 2019.
Muffs and Gaffs, 2018. Plastic mannequin hands, brass wire, waxed nylon, leather, steel, raw steel shelf, 4 1/2 x 12 x 12 3/8 inches (11.4 x 30.5 x 31.4 cm)
Touch Eyes Closed, 2018. Chromogenic print and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag on Dibond, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 28 cm)
Two Essays on Banks, 2005–11. Portfolio of 60 digital c-prints, 9 1/2 x 12 inches (24.1 x 30.5 cm). Edition of 2
The Mayfair Show, 1994. C-print, 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm). Part of a set of 12 photographs.
Jason Simon (b. 1961) is an artist who lives and works in New York and teaches at The College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Solo exhibitions include Request Lines are Open, Callicoon Fine Arts, NY (2015); In and Around the Ohio Pen, Sismografo, Porto, Portugal (2015); and Changeover, Artexte, Montreal (2014). Recent group exhibitions have taken place at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York; Participant Inc., New York; the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao; mumok, Vienna; The Kitchen, New York; Dazibao, Montreal; Yale Union, Portland, Oregon; and Ibid, London. Simon’s videos are distributed by The Video Data Bank and Icarus Films. His writing has appeared in Artforum, May Journal, Parkett, Frieze, Springerin, and Afterimage. Simon and Moyra Davey’s “Ten Years of the One Minute Film Festival” was hosted by MASS MoCA in 2013. Simon was a founding member of the cooperatively run gallery, Orchard (2005–08), and he established the Art & Tech filmmaking residency facility at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.
