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Simone Kearney

Simone Kearney is a Dublin-born, Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist and writer. She is interested in tracking the daily embodied experience of emotional and intellectual life, which she traces through repetition and variation, metaphor and materiality. Her practice is an inquiry — as much visual as it is psychological — into how experience is a cobbled, fragile thing, shapeshifting, subject to time, configured and reconfigured through our bodies. In recent projects, she has been working with hand-carved stone sculpture, watercolor, and text, to reflect states of self and collective consciousness, where the work starts to gather like archaeological fragments of the psyche.
Kearney currently has a solo show of sculptures and works on paper entitled DIGS at Guest
Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, on view from September 20th – November 8th. She also will have
sculptures in a group exhibition at Koki Arts in Tokyo, Japan, this October.

Some previous solo exhibitions include Putty’s Coronation, Brooklyn, NY; Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn New York; Artshack Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Annex Gallery, Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY.

She is a NYFA grant recipient and is the author of Dim, Dahlia, Violet, Stone, (ITI Press, 2024), DAYS, (Belladonna Press, 2021), and My Ida (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). She teaches at Parsons School for Design and Rutgers University.

Hand (Riddle is everywhere:Because a grain … tion), 2025, soapstone, 11” X 11.5” X 36”
Waterstone (xviii), 2024, watercolor on paper, 22” x 30”
“Hole:Through (One by one, to see),” 2025, rhy … pine pedestal, 11” X 11.5” X 35
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