SIMONE COUTO

EDUCATION

· M.F.A. Art Practice, the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

· B.F.A. Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. Graduated magna cum laude. Dean's List all semesters.

· BFA Performing Arts, University of Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

· The Arts Students League of New York

· Technical High School, Center for Technological Education Celso Fonseca Suckov | Civil Engineering, Architecture & Technology

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

· 2018- Darkness Visible | Interdisciplinary Installation AND Social Practice| El Museo De Los Sures | Brooklyn, NY

· 2014- When All Things Evaporate, We Will Talk About Minerals| PioneerWorks Center for the Arts + Innovation | Brooklyn, NY

· 2014-Terra Firma | Momenta Art | Brooklyn, NYC

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE/ GRANTS

· 2020- NARS Foundation | Brooklyn, NY

. 2020- Studios at MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA

. 2018-2020-ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) | Ground Floor Program |Brooklyn, NY

· 2018-2019- Project Curate | NurtureArt Non-Profit | Brooklyn, NY

· 2018- Studios at MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA

· 2018-The Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art | Hafnarborg | Iceland

· 2016- Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper, NY under Hemera's Contemplative Fellowship

· 2013- Palazzo Rinaldi, Noepoli, Italy

· 2013- BioArt Laboratory, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

· 2009- International Festival of Literature Paraty (FLIP), Poetry, Brazil

· 2007- International Festival of Literature Paraty (FLIP), Fiction, Brazil

TEACHING

. 2019-2020—Faculty at the School of Visual Arts (SVA)/ Studio Arts at BFA Department

. 2019- Visiting Artist/Educator at New Jersey City University, NJ

. 2017-2019-Visiting Studio Art Critic at the School of Visual Arts (SVA)

. 2014-2019- Packer Visiting Artist at Packer Collegiate Institute Annual Symposium

. 2014-2017-Faculty @ Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS + SCREENS + COLLABORATIONS

· 2020- Who Suffers Most From Climate Change? | Salon Organized by Hovey Brock | Brooklyn, NY

. 2020- Human Measurements | Curated by Daniela Stubbs | 154 Scott Ave WareHouse | Brooklyn, NY

. 2019- Chiara Fumai: LESS LIGHT | Reenactment of the performance The S.C.U.M. Elite | ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

· 2019- The Living Room | Curated by Amanda Abi Khalil | ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

· 2018- Piece Resistance Performance for Ether Plane~Material | Solo Exhibition by Jennifer Tee | ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

· 2018-2019-Nature Attuned: Simone Couto and Lina Puerta | The Yard Gallery | New York, NY

· 2018- Never Take a Vacation With an Artist Who Collects the Same Stuff You Do | ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

· 2018- Red | Commissioned Performance by ISCP for Summer Open House | Brooklyn, NY

· 2018-About Me | Photography Group| Millepiani Exhibition Space | Rome, Italy

· 2017-UPROOT | Curated by Donna Cleary and Tiffany Smith | Periphery Space Gallery, RI

· 2017- ACT I | Organized by Dawn Breeze of Instar Lodge and Kristen Dodge of SEPTEMBER Gallery | Hudson, NY

· 2017- Six Degrees | Project 151 | Brooklyn, NY

· 2016- BioArt Seoul | Gwacheon National Science Museum, Korea

· 2016- The Zen Mountain Monastery | Mount Tremper, NY

· 2016- Thinking with our Hands | RabbitHole Projects Gallery | Brooklyn, NY

· 2016- X NYC Anarchist Festival | Judson Memorial Church | NY

· 2016- Observatory of Senses | Collective Performance Led by Couto | Packer Observatory | NY

· 2015- Notes on a Working Space (Solar Therapy: Video Screening | Commissioned by Laura F. Gibellini) | El Museo De Los Sures | Brooklyn, NY

· 2015- IX NYC Anarchist Festival | Judson Memorial Church | NYC

· 2015-Highways and Rest Stops: passages in Current Practices— Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery | New York, NY

· 2014-VideoOver: Season 9: Curated by JaeWook Lee |NurtureArt Gallery | Brooklyn, NY

· 2014-LODO Plataforma Festival | Screening of Água and Terra Firma | Buenos Aires

· 2014- K-tanglement: A project by Marcos Lutyens in collaboration with Kunstverein Toronto, Milan, New York and Amsterdam | | New York, NY

· 2014- Community Board—Curated by Jovana Stokic | Glasshouse ArtLife | Brooklyn, NY

· 2013- Dance of the Photons: Performance Studies— Conceptualized and curated by JaeWook Lee | Fitness Center for Arts & Tactics | Brooklyn

· 2013- Current Practice— Curated by Hesse McGraw | Invisible Dog Art Center | Brooklyn, NY

· 2013- MoMA Pop Rally: Abstract Currents— Interactive video event | MoMA, New York, NY

· 2013- Ecstasy/ Apocalypse— Curated by Thyrza Goodeve | Visual Arts Gallery | New York, NY

· 2013- Frequency Response— Screen hosted by Electronic Arts Intermix | EAI | New York, NY

· 2013- Unseen Realities— Curated by Richard Brooks | Visual Arts Gallery | New York, NY

· 2013- Everything Digital— Curated by Erik Guzman, Barbora Lungová and Suzanne Anker | Visual Arts Gallery | New York, NY

· 2012- Mexican Embassy Collective Exhibition |Washington, DC

· 2012- Governor's Island Art Fair Exhibition | New York, NY

· 2012- Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery Collective Exhibition | New York, NY

· 2010- Public Installation at Dumbo Arts Festival | Brooklyn, NY

CURATORSHIP

· 2015-2019- ANARKOLAB PERFORMANCE Festival, Judson Memorial Church, NY

· 2014- When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals (in collaboration with JaeWook Lee), Pioneer Works, and Brooklyn, NY

· 2014- Terra Firma, Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

PERFORMANCES

· Chiara Fumai: LESS LIGHT | Reenactment of the performance The S.C.U.M. Elite | | ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

· 2018- Red | Commissioned Performance by ISCP for Summer Open House | Brooklyn, NY

· 2018- Grace and Gravity| performance | El Museo de Los Sures | Brooklyn, NY

· 2018- Piece Resistance Performance for Ether Plane~Material | Solo Exhibition by Jennifer Tee | ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

· 2016- Darkness Visible| performance | Iceland

· 2015- Darkness Visible| performance | Iceland

· 2013- Santa Lucia— Site-specific performance at the Unesco historical well of Matera | Matera | Italy

· 2012- The Bear Mountain Project | Bare Mountain | NY

· 2012- Displaced | Street around Google Head Courters | New York, NY

· 2011- One Art — Arrivals and Departures | Private Exhibition | Brooklyn, NY

PUBLICATION

· 2019- Magazine MID (Art and Museums Magazine), Denmark

· 2018- Newspaper Horsens Folkblad, Denmark

· 2018- Darkness Visible, Hard cover

· 2014- When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals, Blurb

· 2007- Poem "Boca "at Magazine Carioca, Rio de Janeiro

BIBLIOGRAPHY

· 2018- By Sarah Crown, Darkness Visible Press Release.

· 2017, By Sofia Fernandez Darkness Visible in Darkness Visible, Blurb.

· 2014- By Denise Carvalho in When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals, Blurb

· 2014- By Jovana Stokic in When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals, Blur

OTHER WORKS

· Couto is part of Minumus Collective, organizing, showing, and curating exhibitions as a group since 2015