Noah Simblist
Associate Professor of Art
Noah Simblist works as an artist, writer and curator. For the past 5 years, his studio work has explored the relationship between politics and abstraction with
particular attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He won the 2007 Moss/Chumley award and was awarded residencies at Bemis, Millay and Jentel. He has written for Art Papers and ART LIES (where he is on the editorial advisory board) as well as web based publications such as D Magazine’s Front Row, Daily Serving, Cablegram, Glasstire, Zerodegreesart and …might be good. He was the director of Garner Tullis print publishing in New York and curated Abstraction/Construction at SOIL gallery in Seattle, Collecting and Collectivity at Conduit Gallery in Dallas and the 3 Propositions and a Musical Scenario in Ft Worth along with
Subtext Projects. He also co-curated Yuri's Office, a site specific installation by Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation at Ft Worth Contemporary Arts and Out of Place at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin.
Education
M.F.A., University of Washington, 1999
B.A., Hampshire College, 1996
Teaching
ASDR 1300, 2300, 3300, 4300, 5300; ASPT 1300, 2300, 3300, 4300, 5300, Foundations, Junior Seminar, Senior Seminar, Graduate Seminar
Publications
The Nazi Fetish: Ritual Violence and the Power of Cinema in Inglorious Basterds, Art Papers, July/August 2010
“Revolutionary Tourism: Land, Labor and Lost in Yael Bartana’s Summer Camp,” Art Papers, November/December 2008
“Extraordinary Gestures: The Performance of Politics at the Borderland of an Absolute,” Art Lies, Issue 56, Winter 2007
“Organizing Artists in a Post-Utopian World,” Art Lies, Issue 47, Summer 2005
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