EDUCATION
MFA – Wayne State University
BA – University of Pittsburgh
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2018 Caged, solo performance and installation, MuzeuMM Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 In Transit (II), participatory performance, Women’s Caucus for Art National Convention, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Fragments, performance with composer Michelle Green Willner, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
2018 In Transit, durational participatory performance, stARTup Art Fair > More Art Here
2016 Reverberations, performance @ Museum Of Tolerance, Los Angeles, collaboration with Michelle Green Willner, DMA
2016 After Image, interactive performance for Maiden LA.
2016 49 Days: Women Who Count, performance with the Donna Sternberg Dance Company, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica
2016 Doing Lines, stARTup Art Fair, Los Angeles
2014 Exposed, a guerilla performance, MAS Attack, Arena One, Santa Monica
2013 De-noue-ment (n), Shulamit Gallery, Venice, CA
2012 Homage to a Fairy Tale, performance, Studio 21, Santa Monica, CA
2011 It’s About Time, Slutzky Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
2010 August: Doni Silver Simons, new paintings and performance, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Omer 5769, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Lines, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Marked, featuring Omer 5769 An Installation/A Performance, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Center Justified, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1980 Doni Silver/Episodes, Lace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Caesura (a Study), performance, University of California, Irvine
1978 Caesura III, performance, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Caesura II, performance, Detroit Institute of Arts, New Video and Performance, Detroit, MI
1978 Paper Works, Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1978 Westwork 10, Works in Public Places Project, Pacific Design Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
1977 Caesura I, a ceremony, Loft of George Vihos, New York, NY
1977 Centric East, Lowell Nesbitt Studio, New York, NY
1976 Salted Harmonics, Gallery 720, Lynchburg, VA
1976 A Last Supper for the Gertrude Kasle Galley, a Ceremony, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI
1976 Whisper Pitch, performance, The Beubien Studio, Detroit, MI
1975 Zero Plus, performance, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2018 Flashpoints: A Collective Response, MuzeuMM Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 Mother – Portraits in Petri Dishes, an installation for Mothers, Eggshells, and People Who Birth Us, curated by Kim Abeles, Keystone Art Space, LA, CA
2018 Between 2 Seas, MAAAC Museo Arta Archeologica Contemporanea, Italy
2018 Art Speaks! Lend Your Voice, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalog)
2018 Image, Action, Idea, St. Vicent College Art Gallery, Latrobe, PA
2018 Points of Departure, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Flashpoints: A Collective Response, the Bezeq Building, Jerusalem Biennale
2017 Mako, VBS, Studio City, CA
2016 Ima Iyla’a, Hebrew University, Mount Scopes, Israel
2015 Ima Iyla’a, Hechel Shlomo Museum, Israel, Jerusalem Biennale
2015 7,567 mi, Achim Hasid Complex, Jerusalem Biennale
2015 Women of the Book, The First Train Station, Jerusalem Biennale
2015 Reimaging Femmage, St Louis Foundry, St. Louis, MO
2015 Memory Reconstruction: A Culture Rebuilt,, Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
2015 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Matronita:2012, The Ground Breaking Feminist Show, Conney Conference (Panel), USC, LosAngeles, CA
2014 Things We Pass Down, Doni Silver Simons in the Alcove, The Gallery at The Braid, Santa Monica, CA
2014 MAS Attack, Arena One, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Threads of Identity, USC Hillel, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Jerusalem Biennale, Wolfson Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 We Are All In This Together, Modern FilmVideo, Santa Monica,CA
2013 Sacred Words, Sacred Texts, Platt Gallery, AJU, Los Angeles, CA|
2013 All Good Things, SMOArts, San Francisco, CA
2013 In House, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Global Soul, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2013 In Context, Hangar Gallery S, Santa Monica,CA
2013 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Caesura, Annenberg Beach House, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Alchemy, Doni Silver Simons in The Projects Room, Liz’s Loft, Los Angeles, CA(catalog)
2012 Women Inspired by Text, Wolfson Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2012 FRESH 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Ein Harod, Israel (catalog
2012 Artist’s Tower of Protest, Joint project by Mark di Suvero, LA><ART, Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Jewish Ritual – Rethinking, Renewed, Gotthelf Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2012 Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood (Pacific Standard Time), ARENA 1Gallery Santa Monica, CA
2011 Mysterious Objects: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ana College, CA (catalog)
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Jewish Ritual: Rethinking, Renewed, Finegood Gallery, West Hills, CA
2011 Rashi Effect: Artist as Commentator, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Memory and Transformation, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Send Nothing to the Tate Modern: A Project by David Horvitz, Tate Modern, London, England
2010 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2010 It’s a Numbers Game, Doni Silver Simons in the Project Room, Los Angeles, CA
2009 FRESH 2009, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Global Soul, Jewish World Watch, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Tradition and Transformation, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Drawing on Experience, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Marking Time, Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1981 With More Than One Sense, invitational, LACMA Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Contemporaries: 17 Artists, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA, catalog
1979 2nd Annual Downtown Artists Exhibition/Six Downtown Sculptors, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 1st Annual Downtown Artists Show, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Paper Works, Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery, Detroit, MI
1977 Women’s Show, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1977 Sculpture ’77, Macomb Community College, Detroit, MI, catalog
1976 Doni Silver/Doug Semivan, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
1976 Steve Faust/John Piet/ Doni Silver, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
1976 Forsythe Detroit, Forsythe Building, Detroit, MI
1976 Women’s Show, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1976 Faculty Show, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1976 Drawings USA, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Art Speaks! Lend Your Voice, exhibition catalog Ben Schachter, Image, Action,and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art,book
2014 Red, Art Ascent, Dec 2014, Vol. 10
2013 Peter Frank, Coming Out, Going in, Fabrik #20
2013 Roberta Carasso, Doni Silver Simons: Denouement at Shulamit Gallery, Art Ltd, May
2013 Sarah Lehat, Fluid Fairy Tales at Shulamit Gallery, Huffington Post, May
2012 Sarah Lehat, Redeeming Eve, Huffington Post, December 2012
2012 Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles: PST’s Temporary Contemporary, Art Ltd., May
2012 Kiss Me! I’m an Artist!, Cover story, Artweek L.A., March 13
2012 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art, exhibition catalog, essay by curators Dvora Liss and David Sperber, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
2012 Danielle Jacoby, Doni Silver Simons Contributes Panel to ‘Artists’ Tower of Protest‘, West Hollywood, Patch, February 24
2012 Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood, Featured Articles, Previews, Artweek L.A., February 6
2012 Renee Ghert-Zand, Matronita, Religious Women, Feminist Art Work, The Forward, January
2012 Breaking in Two:Provocative visions of Motherhood, exhibition catalog, Bruria Finkel
2011 Elysabeth Bell, Hineni, Hillhurst Review, Feb 8, 2011
2011 Linda Rubin, Raising Awareness and Hope for Congo at Kehillat Israel, Pacific Palisades Patch, November
2010 Shana Nys Dambrot, Waiting for God? Urban Scrawl-006, August
2010 What’s on: Doni Silver Simons, The Argonaut, August 5
2010 Shana Nys Dambrot, Doni Silver Simons: August, flavorpill, August 6
2009 Amanda Moret, Doni Silver Simons, One Mile Radius, November
2009 Jacki Apple, Doni Silver Simons, Fabrik Magazine, October 26
2009 Amanda Moret, Art Ltd., July 2009
2009 Joan Quinn Profiles, television interview, Time Warner Cable, recorded June 12
2009 Exploring Creative Santa Monica, The Palette, June 4
2009 Amanda Moret, To Leave a Mark, Citizen L.A., May, p. 7
2009 …lines… at Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Art and Living Magazine online, April 30
2009 Doni Silver Simons, Art Scene Radio Broadcast, April
2009 Bill Lasarow. Doni Silver Simons, Art Scene, April, pp. 21-22
2009 Sandra Vista, Doni Silver Simons at Sherry Frumkin Gallery, White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, April
2009 …lines… Doni Silver Simons, California Homes Magazine, April, p. 20
2009 Line of Beauty, Luxury Life & Style Magazine, March/April, p. 18
2009 Directed Energy, Enacted Abstraction: The Work of Doni Silver Simons. Catalog essay by Carmine Iannaccone
2009 Seven Days in Santa Monica, Santa Monica Mirror, March 19-25, p. 42
2009 Picks and Clicks, Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, March 20-26, p. 24
2009 Doni Silver Simons, The Argonaut, March 20-26
2009 …lines…, Los Angeles City Beat, March 26
2007 Michael Yates, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, May 11
1989 Performance Anthology: Source Book for a Decade of California Performance Art, Contemporary Arts Press. San Francisco, pp.391, 425-427
1981 David Lewinson, Nebulae of Color, Artweek, Nov 7, p. 6
1981 Art Exhibit Created for People with Visual Problems, Los Angeles Times, Nov 3
1980 Suzanne Muchnic, Contemporaries: Artists to Bank On, Los Angeles Times, Feb 13
1980 Linda Burnham, Performance in Southern California, High Performance
1980 Ruth Askey, Application of Symbolism, Artweek, March
1980 Joan Hugo, Six Downtown Sculptors, Artweek, March
1980 New Video and Performance Art in Detroit: Works in Progress V, Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalog essay by Peter Frank
1979 Suzanne Muchnic, New York Painter, L.A. Sculptors, Los Angeles Times, April 23
1979 B. Paley, Modern Art Symposium, New University Newspaper, Irvine, CA
1978 Joy Hakenson-Colby, Silvers New Work Opens a Drawer of Life, Detroit News, May 21
1977 Michigan Sculpture ’77, catalogue, Macomb Co. Community College, Michigan
1976 Joy Hakenson-Colby, Colby on Art: Subtle Sensations, Detroit News
RESIDENCIES & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2016 Conney Conference, USC, LA (panel)
2016 Louise Green, The Gallery at the Braid (moderator)
2013 Sacred Words,Sacred Texts, University of Judaism (panel)
2012-current Jewish Women’s Theater – artist in residence
2010- 2014 Jewish World Watch – artist in residence
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2017 Creative Inquiry Fellowship, American Jewish University
2016 Santa Monica CAP Grant with Donna Sternberg Dance Company
2014 Santa Monica Fellowship Projects Grant
1978 Works in Public Places Project, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art and the City of Los Angeles
1976 Michigan Workshop of Fine Prints, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Michigan Council of Arts – Invited Artist
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Women’s Caucus for Art
Jewish Artists Initiative
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Art, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Ein Harod, Israel
National Endowment for the Arts
Michigan Council of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Allegheny County Community College, Pittsburgh, PA