Bio
Simone Kearney (she/her) is a New York-based visual artist and writer whose practice primarily includes stone and ceramic sculpture, drawing, painting, textiles and text.
In her work—which has been published and/or exhibited internationally—Kearney is interested in tracking the daily experience of embodied emotional and intellectual life, which she traces through repetition and variation, metaphor and material. Her practice is an inquiry – as much visual as it is psychological – into how experience is always a cobbled fragile thing, shapeshifting, being configured and then reconfigured, subject to time, funneled and infused in and through our bodies.
She has upcoming shows at Guest Gallery in Brooklyn and at Koki Gallery in Tokyo this Fall. in collaboration with photographer Hannah Whitaker, “Dim, Dahlia, Violet, Stone” — An Artist book of Kearney’s Sculptures and poetry — was published with iTI press in 2024. Her chaplet “A Big Salad (An excerpt) came out in 2022, and her first full-length book of poems, DAYS, was published in 2021 — A text comprised of fragments that build to form a kind of textile, “a mutable, fidgeting feminist work that challenges us to dwell in ambiguities and resist limiting frameworks of narrative completion,” as the poet Emily Skillings writes.
Kearney has also performed and created visual translations of various texts in collaboration with the artist and writer Sophie Seita in New York, Boston, and London, and has published writing and/or interviews in The Brooklyn Rail, Public Journal, and Lit Hub, among others.