VITAE
Simone Couto
Email:
simone@simonecouto.com
scouto@sva.edu
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
B.F.A., Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; Magna Cum Laude; Dean's List all semesters
Theater Arts, University of Rio de Janeiro (Uni-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Arts Students League of New York
Technical High School in Civil Engineering, Architecture & Technology, Center for Technological Education Celso Suckov da Fonseca (CEFET)
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Now - 2019 - Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Now - 2021 - Faculty Member at Montclair State University, NJ
2020 - Curator-in-Residency at Juan Morel Campos Public High School, Brooklyn, NY
2019 - Visiting Art Critic at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2019 - Visiting Art Critic at New Jersey City University, NJ
2019 - 2017 - Faculty Member at Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2017 - 2014 - Guest Artist at Packer Collegiate Institute Annual Symposium, Brooklyn, NY
PROFESSIONAL ART PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
ADVISORY MENTORSHIP
2023 - Mentoring for the M.F.A., Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2023 - 2022 - Mentoring for the Immigrant Artist Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), , New York, NY
2022 - 2021 - Member of the Individual Artists Advisory Panel of the New York Council for the Arts (NYSCA), New York, NY
2021 - 2019 - Member of the Individual Artists Advisory Panel for Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2019 - 2014 - Co-Organizer of AnarkoLab Performance Arts Festival at the landmark Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE/ GRANTS
2020:
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2018-2021:
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY
Project Curate, NurtureArt Non-Profit, Brooklyn, NY
Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarborg, Iceland
2016: Hemera's Contemplative Fellowship, Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper, NY
2013: Palazzo Rinaldi, Noepoli, Italy
BioArt Laboratory, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2009 & 2007: International Festival of Literature Paraty (FLIP), Poetry, Brazil
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2021 - Mind Builders Art Center, Internship in Development, New York, NY
2022 - Helping Students in Distress
2015 - Socratic Seminar
2015 - Mindfulness in the Classroom
2005 - Museo dos Trajes Textiles Intern, Lisbon, Portugal
2000 - Costume Restoration for San Francisco Opera
BUSINESS
2008-2004 - Founder and Creative Director of Floret L.L.C., N.Y.C., Design and Manufacture of Soft Toys and Children's Clothing distributed to 64 stores nationwide.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2021-Nowhere to Go But Everywhere. Site-Specific Installation. Commissioner: Berkshire Museum, MA & Art
2018- Darkness Visible. Interdisciplinary Installation. El Museo De Los Sures. Brooklyn, NY
2014- Terra Firma. Interdisciplinary Installation. Momenta Art. Brooklyn, NYC
SITE-SPECIFIC EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2021 - Nowhere to Go But Everywhere: Site-Specific Installation. Commissioned by Berkshire Museum, MA, and Art Close to Home Organization at Old Mill Trail, MA
2019 - 2 Large-Scale Murals: Public Art. Commissioned by N.Y.C. Department of Transportation at Newkirk Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
2019 - 2x2: Solo Multimedia Performance Installation. Commissioned by La Nacional, New York, NY
2018 - Red: Performance. Commissioned by ISCP and Curated by Julie Horne Moller at ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
2018 - Grace and Gravity: Performance at Museo de Los Sures. Brooklyn, NY
2016 - DarknessVisible: Site-Specific Performance at Þórsmörk Nacional Park, Iceland
2015 - DarknessVisible: Site-Specific Performance at Þórsmörk Nacional Park, Iceland
2013 - Santa Lucia: Site-specific Performance at Unesco Historical Well of Matera. Matera, Italy
2012 - Displaced: Site-Specific Performance at New York, NY
2012 - The Bear Mountain Project: Performance at Bare Mountain. NY
2011 - One Art — Arrivals and Departures: Private Installation Performance at Brooklyn, NY
COMMISSION
2021 - Nowhere to Go But Everywhere. Site-Specific Installation. Commissioner: Berkshire Museum, MA & Art Close to Home Org., Old Mill Trail, MA
2019 - 2x2. Solo Multimedia Performance Installation. Commissioner: La Nacional, New York, NY
2019 - 2 Large-Scale Mural. Public Art. Commissioner: D.O.T. (N.Y.C. Department of Transportation). Newkirk Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
2018 - Red. Performance. Commissioner: ISCP. Curated by Julie Horne Moller. Brooklyn, NY
2015 - Solar Therapy: Video Screening. Commissioner: Laura F. Gibellini. El Museo De Los Sures. Brooklyn, NY
2010 - Large-Scale Mural. Public Art. Commissioner: D.O.T. (N.Y.C. Department of Transportation. Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS
2022 - The Sky is Higher Here at Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 - Art in the Time of Pandemic at the Brazilian Consulate in N.Y.C., NY
2020 - The Thing in Itself at NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2020 - The Union Square Show, Curated by Hayley Ferber, Michael Gormley, Priska Juschka, and Luciana Solano - New York, NY
2018 - Never Take a Vacation With an Artist Who Collects the Same Stuff at ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 - Nature Attuned: Simone Couto and Lina Puerta, Curated by Sarah Crown at The Yard Gallery, New York, NY
2018 - About Me at Millepiani Exhibition Space, Rome, Italy
2017 - UprRoot, Curated by Donna Cleary and Tiffany Smith at Periphery Space Gallery, RI
2017 - ACT I, Curated by Dawn Breeze and Kristen Dodge at SEPTEMBER Gallery Hudson, NY
2017 - Six Degrees at Project 151, Brooklyn, NY
2016 - BioArt Seoul Group Exhibition at Gwacheon National Science Museum, Korea
2016 - The Zen Mountain Monastery Art Event Sharing at Mount Tremper, NY
2016 - Thinking with Our Hands at RabbitHole Projects Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 - X N.Y.C. Anarchist Festival at Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
2016 - Observatory of Senses Collective Performance Led by Couto at Packer Observatory, Brooklyn, NY
2015 - Solar Therapy: Video Screening Commissioned by Laura F. Gibellini at El Museo De Los Sures, Brooklyn, NY
2015 - IX NYC Anarchist Festival at Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
2015 - Highways and Rest Stops: Passages in Current Practices at Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY 2014 - VideoOver: Season 9, Curated by JaeWook Lee at NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - LODO Plataforma Festival, Screening the Films Água and Terra Firma in Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 - K-tanglement, a Project by Marcos Lutyens in New York, NY
2014 - Community Board, Curated by Jovana Stokic at Glasshouse ArtLife, Brooklyn, NY
2013 - Current Practice, Curated by Hesse McGraw at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2013 - MoMA Pop Rally: Abstract Currents. Interactive Video Event at MoMA, New York, NY
2013 - Ecstasy/Apocalypse, Curated by Thyrza Goodeve at Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2013 - Frequency Response @ Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
2013 - Unseen Realities, Curated by Richard Brooks at Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2013 - Everything Digital, Curated by Erik Guzman and Suzanne Anker at Visual Arts Gallery, NY
2012 - Collective Exhibition at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC
2012 - Governor's Island Art Fair Exhibition, New York, NY
2012 - Collective Exhibition at Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
CURATORSHIP
2019 - (Im)perfection at NurtureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019-2015 - ANARKOLAB Performance Festival at Judson Memorial Church, NY
2014 - When All Things Evaporate, We'll Talk About Minerals (Collaboration with JaeWook Lee) at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - Terra Firma at Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 - Curatorial essay by Denise Carvalho for Steel Jackdaw Arts Magazine Edition 4
2019 - Art Forum, Summer 2019, Volume 57, No. 10, page 290
2019 - Hyperallergic, "An Elegant Swansong at Brooklyn's NurtureArt."
2019 - BTRToday, interview with Simone Couto
2019 - MID Arts and Museum Magazine, Denmark
2018 - Darkness Visible, a 120 page-documentation of Couto's work and engagement with the Landscape in Iceland, Hardcover 2018 - Horsens Folkblad Newspaper, Denmark
2018 - Arthurious.com, ISCP 2018
2018 - Curatorial essay by Sarah Crown, Darkness Visible Press Release
2017 - Curatorial essay by Sofia Fernandez Darkness Visible in Darkness Visible, Blurb
2014 - When All Things Evaporate, We'll Talk About Minerals, Blurb
2014 - Curatorial essay by Denise Carvalho in When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals, Rhodium 2014 - Curatorial essay by Jovana Stokic in When All Things Evaporate We'll Talk About Minerals, Rhodium Publications
2007 - Poem "Boca" at Magazine Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
REFERENCES
Susan Hapgood, Executive Director of the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Email: shapgood@iscp-nyc.org Phone: (718) 387-2900
Blair Benjamin, Director, Assets for Artists and Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Email: bbenjamin@massmoca.org Phone: 413 652 9661
Claus Hagedorn-Olsen, Director, and Julie Horne Møller, Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the Horsens Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Email: jhmo@horsens.dk
Suzanne Anker, Chair of the Fine Arts Department of the School of Visual Arts
Email: sanker@sva.edu
David Ross, Chair of the M.F.A. Art Practice Department of the School of Visual Arts
Email: dross2@sva.edu Phone: 212-592-2747 (office), 917-892-5151 (mobile), daross140 (Skype)
Hovey Brock, Artist, Writer for the Brooklyn Rail, Former Art Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University and Montclair University, NJ
Email: hoveyb@gmail.com, mbrock@njcu.edu Phone: 646-642-3291
JaeWook Lee, Artist and Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University, former S.V.A. Adjunct Professor Email: jw7524@gmail.com, Jaewook.Lee@nau.edu Phone: 212-498-9780