Email: szkearney (at) gmail (dot) com
Born in Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2025 DIGS, Guest Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Runes, Putty’s Coronation, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Criers, Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Amok, Artshack Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Piehole, Annex Gallery at Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
Select Two-Person & Group Exhibitions
2026 Favorite Stone, My Pet Ram, New York, NY
2025 Empathetic Geologies, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Various Flowers, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2023 Prix Fixe, Underland Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Formless Body, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, CA
2022 What Is A Dream Gone Rogue? : Co-respondence In Word And Image, Olympia Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Dog Park, Petty Cash, 114 Forest St., Brooklyn, NY
2021 Social Photography IX, Carriage Trade, New York, NY
2021 Margaritaville, Good Naked, Brooklyn, NY
2020 In the Weeds, Olympia Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Paint School Exhibition, Klaus Von Nichtssagend gallery, New York, NY
2019 Social Photography, Carriage Trade, 277 Grand Street, New York, NY
2019 Wish You Were Here Postcard Show, A.I.R. gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Metaphor, Making, and Mysticism, Boston College, O’Connell House, Chestnut Hill, MA
2018 Object Intimacies, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Sour Milk, 73 Orchard Place, Greenwich, CT
2018 Companion Pieces, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati, OH
2018 Re: Framed, Re: Art Show, 630 Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, NY
2018 La MaMa Family Show, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY
2017 Piehole, Annex Gallery at Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2017 Ultra Pro Festival: Sculptures That Cook, The Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Select Performances & Readings
2025 Guest Gallery, Opening reading for exhibition of “DIGS” with poets David Gorin & Zoe Hitzig, Brooklyn, New York, NY
2024 Launch of “Dim, Dahlia, Violet, Stone” (ITI Press), New York Art Book Fair, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
2022 Lost Contact Performance by Carol Szymansky, Brooklyn Rail, performance with Joan Jonas, Barry Schwabsky, Thierry de Duve, Rachel Corbett, Brooklyn NY
2021 Brooklyn Poets, zoom reading with Ross Gay and Tracy Fuad, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Radical Poetry Series, The Brooklyn Rail, Curated By Barry Schwabsky, with Joyelle McSweeney, Arthur Sze, and Tyrone Williams, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Poetry is medicine for the soul, Stockbridge Library, Stockbridge, MA
2021 Radical Poetry Series, The Brooklyn Rail, Curated By Barry Schwabsky, with Joyelle McSweeney, Arthur Sze, and Tyrone Williams, Brooklyn, NY
2020 The Language That Repairs, FiveMyles Gallery, performance with Joan Waltemath, Brooklyn NY
2020 Lost Contact With Twelve Sentiments, Signs and Symbols, performance in Carol Szymanski play, New York, NY
2020 Desire Lines, Boston University, performance of work-in-progress work with Sophie Seita, Kilachand Honors College, Boston, MA
2019 WAVEMACHINE, curated by David Gorin, poetry reading alongside Emily Skillings, Brooklyn, NY
2019 SPACE, performance of “Les Bijoux Indiscrets, Or Paper Tigers,” by Sophie Seita, London, UK
2019 BRIC Biennial, performance of text composed for Laura Bernstein’s “Becoming Beast,” Brooklyn, NY
2019 NURTUREart, reading of “Touch,” Curated by Nicole Kaack and Jane Cavalier, With Audra Wolowiec, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Raven Row, Performance Of “Desire Lines/Experiments In Queer Phenomenology” with Sophie Seita, London, UK
Select Publications
Books, Chapbooks & Chaplets
2024 Dim, Dahlia, Violet, Stone, ITI Press, Artist book/Chapbook
2023 A Big Salad, Belladona Press, Chaplet
2021 DAYS, Belladonna Press, Full-length poetry collection
2021 A Roby Rhombus of Glass Exiting My Mouth, Conversation between Simone Kearney & Jarrett Earnest, Belladonna Press
2017 My Ida, Ugly Duckling Presse, Chapbook
Select Interviews and Press
2026 Routledge Press. “Eruigena’s Dream: Conversation between Simone Kearney & Pol Hermann” in Metaphor, Mysticism, and Making. May 2026. Forthcoming in Print.
2025 Heller, Kythe. “On Simone Kearney’s Dim, Dahlia, Violet, Stone.” Irish Literary Supplement. Print.
2025 Yale University Radio. Interview with Brainard Carey. Web.
2024 Ortega Y Gasset Projects: Artists to Watch. 2024. Web.
2022 Schwabsky, Barry. “On Simone Kearney’s Criers”. Artforum, Vol. 61. No. 2. Web and Print.
2022 Said To Be Dreaming At Olympia Gallery: Must See Show. Artforum. Web.
2022 “Editor’s Pick: Said To Be Dreaming At Olympia Gallery.” Artnet. Web.
2022 “Simone Kearney: Between the Spaces of the Sayable”. New Suns: United States Artists, New Suns: Listening With Artists. Issue 05. Web.
2022 Lighthouse Works Podcast, Interview with Tryn Collins. Web.
2021 Artshack Gallery, Interview with McKendree Key. Web.
2021 Hazard, Oli. “DAYS by Simone Kearney,” Review of DAYS. Spamzine. Web.
2021 Burgess, Lauren. “DAYS by Simone Kearney,” NDR magazine. Web.
2021 McClennan’s, Rob. “Days by Simone Kearney, Rob McClennan’s Blog. Web.
2019 Yale University Radio Interview with Brainard Carey. Web.
2019 Schiciano, Salvatore. “The Sum of Its Parts: The Poetic Materialism of Simone Kearney”. MacAdam & Co. ArtTalk DinaburgArts. Web.
2017 Lit Hub, “My Ida” by Simone Kearney named one of Literary Hub’ favorite poetry collection in 2017. Web.
2017 Yellow Rabbits Reviews. Reviewing Four Short UDP titles. Web.
Awards & Honors
2025 Shandaken: Storm King Resident, Storm King Arts Center, New York
2022 Uillinn: West Cork Arts Center Resident, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland
2021 Artshack Artist-in-Residence, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Shandaken: Governor’s Island Resident, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
2019 Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art scholarship grantee, Berlin, Germany
2019 The Hambidge Center Resident, Rabun Gap, GA
2019 Parsons Faculty Development Fund Grantee, New York, NY
2019 Parsons Distinguished Teaching Award Nominee, New York, NY
2019 Paint School, Shandaken Projects, New York, NY
2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Nominee, New York, NY
2016 The Lighthouse Works Resident, Fishers Island, NY
2016 The Edward F. Albee Foundation Resident, Montauk, NY
2014-16 Hoffberger Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, MD
2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
2014 Byrdcliffe Artist Colony Resident, full scholarship, Woodstock, NY
2013 Josef and Anni Albers Resident, Bethany, CT
2010 Amy Award for Best New Female Poets in NY Under 30, Poets & Writers
Education
2016 – MFA in Painting, Hoffberger School, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 – MFA in Poetry, Hunter College, New York, NY
Select Teaching
Parsons the New School For Design, Part-time Assistant Professor, Integrative Studio/Seminar, New York, NY, 2016-Present
Rutgers University, Adjunct Faculty, Intro to Multimedia Composition/Digital Storytelling, New Brunswick, NJ, 2017-Present
Pratt, Visiting Artist (Classroom visit to Writing MFA program), Brooklyn, NY, 2022, 2023, 2024
Yale University College of Art, Guest Critic, New Haven, CT, 2018 & 2021
SAIC, Visiting Artist (Classroom visit to painting undergraduate program), Chicago, IL, 2021
Yale Graduate school of Art, Visiting Artist (Classroom visit to Visual Art MFA program), New Haven, CT, 2020
Boston University, Visiting Artist (Classroom visit), Boston, MA, 2020