Jason Simon
Artist Book
Title: Untitled (Castelli-Sonnabend Videotapes and Films)
Author: Jason Simon
Date: 2013
Format: 26 x 29,2 x 5,1 cm
Features: Facsimile of “Castelli-Sonnabend Videotapes and Films” sales and rental catalogue
Print run: 100 numbered copies
Jason Simon (Boston, 1961) is a professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he was founding faculty of the Department of Media Culture. Simon worked as an assistant curator of film and video at the Wexner Center for the Arts, where he established the museum’s Art & Tech lab for artist residencies in filmmaking, and was represented by the Pat Hearn Gallery from 1994-1999. His work has exhibited widely, including the Whitney Museum Biennial; Neue Gallerie, Graz; ICA London; the Tang Museum; The New Museum and The Kitchen. In 2013, ten years of the One Minute Film Festival he co-hosted with Moyra Davey became an exhibition at Mass MoCA. In New York, Simon co-founded the cooperative Orchard gallery, 2005-2008; he co-curated the traveling exhibition Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, and is represented by the Callicoon Fine Arts gallery. His videos are distributed by The Video Data Bank and his writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Purple, Parkett and Afterimage.