EDUCATION
2013 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MFA
2009 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
BFA Photography
EXHIBITIONS
(* solo shows)
2013 Looks Like Torture, HERE, New York, NY
2012 All You Can Eat, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL
2012 Six Incapable Arms, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL
2012 For the / her / a screen, Nightingale, Chicago, IL
2012 The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2012 Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show, Bloomington, IN
2011 Molly Landreth, Aiden Simon, and Elisha Lim, William Way, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Altered States, FOLEYgallery, New York, NY
2010 Undressing the Feminine, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
2010 Commencement, Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2010 Select Gender, Farmani Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Transmasculinities, Red Gallery, Melbourne, AU
2009 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Merit Award
2009 *Member, Whitman Walker Clinic, Washington DC
2009 *Member, Center Arts, Washington DC
2009 *Member, Wilgus Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009 Exchange, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD
2008 Identity Exhibition, Brown Center, Baltimore, MD
2008 WIPE, Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2008 Artist’s Book Exhibit, Decker Library, Baltimore, MD
2008 Artist’s Book Exhibit, Main Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2006 Plastic Princess: Barbie as Art, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
PRESS
2012 Hyperallergic, Artists Point the Way to a New Queer Aesthetic, by Alicia Eler
2011 Hyperallergic, Your Guide to This Weekend’s Bushwick Open Studios: Our Studio Picks, by Kyle Chayka
2010 The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, Art: “Summer Staged”, by Vince Aletti
2009 Metro Weekly, The Naked Truth: J. Aiden Simon’s Transgender Journey to Manhood and Happiness, by Yusef Najafi
2009 The New Gay, J. Aiden Simon: The New Gay Interview, by Adam Roker
