Peter Simensky
14 Verona st. 4b Brooklyn, NY 11231 neutralcapital@gmail.com Ph: 917-297-6906
Solo Exhibitions and Projects:
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2005 Round 22, Project Row House, Houston, TX
2005 Neutral Capital, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, Armory Show, New York
Group Exhibitions:
2007 Grow Your Own, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Curated by Peter Coffin
2006 It’s not what you know, its who you know, Samson Projects, Boston
2006 Skowhegan at 60: The Maine Participants, Center for Maine Contemporary Art
2006 Socrates Sculpture Park, Armory Show, New York
2005 New Labor, Columbia University, New York
2005 We Could Have Invited Everyone, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Curated by Peter Coffin
2005 15 Minutes with You, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Sport, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2004 Best Wishes, YEAR, New York
2004 Groundswell Benefit, White Columns, New York
2004 SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston
2003 Stream, Rare Gallery, New York
2003 The Reconstruction Biennial, Exit Art, New York
2003 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York
2002 Two Views, 92nd St. Y Gallery, New York
1999 Work, White Box, University of California, Berkeley
Awards and Residencies:
2007 Dieu Donne Paper Mill Workspace Residency, New York
2007 Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant, New York
2007 New York Foundations for the Arts Grant
2007 Lui Velzaquez, Contemprary Art, Tijuana, MX
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture – Residency and Fellowship
Bibliography and Publications:
Robert Pincus, “Cerca Series: Peter Simensky’ gives bang for buck,”
San Diego Union Tribune, August 5, 2007.
“Resurrection” Book, Compiled and Published by Commonspace.fm, 2006.
James Westcott, “Sport” at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY Arts Magazine,
September/October 2005 Vol. 10, No9/10.
Francis Raven, We Could Have Invited Everyone (review), Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 2005
Roberta Smith, We Could Have Invited Everyone (review), New York Times, July 15, 2005.
Stephanie Seymor, Museums, NY1, May 9, 2005.
Living Art, KPFT Pacifica Radio, Houston, April 8, 2005.
Armory Show Interview, WPS1 Radio, March 11, 2005.
Roberta Smith, “A Space Reborn with a Show That’s Never Finished,”
The New York Times, April 4, 2003.
Talk of the Town, New Yorker, March 31, 2003
Professional Experience
2006 University of California, San Diego, Lecturer/Adjunct Professor (Sculpture)
2005 Hunter College, Visiting Artist
2005–2008 Art Fabrication and Fine Carpentry, Owner/ Designer/ Fabricator
2003–2004 New York University / LEAP, Visiting Artist
2001–2003 Artforum, Photo Research
2001–2003 Bookforum, Photo Research
Artist Statement
My work investigates the nature of value and it’s accretion. Through investment and collection the
works offer parallels between the world of global finance and the highly charged art market. Editions
of my alternative currency, Neutral Capital, first debuted with the Swiss Institute of Contemporary
Art at the 2005 Armory Show in New York. Neutral Capital bills are collaged by hand from unstable
global currencies bought at market value, then printed in limited editions. At the Armory, art
collectors bought attachés containing Neutral Capital and used it to shop at various participating
galleries thus creating a concurrent market and commodity. Neutral Capital functions both as art
and commerce - cohabitating in a territory where the distinction between the two blur. It addresses
the often changing parameters of value and the interchange of possibility that exists in all things
that experience fortune and decline.
Like art holdings from other well- known financial institutions such as CitiBank, UBS, and Deutsch
Bank - Neutral Capital has been using its surplus cash to acquire artworks for its own collection. The
collection is housed in a series of shipping crates that hinge and unbolt to open into refined compact
interiors with all the necessary attributes of other large galleries. Its collection includes work by an
international roster of artists with prominent works in all media. Recent developments include the
“Collector” milk crate edition, for a series that will incorporate a collection of objects from select
artist books, to super eight films, rare records, and ephemera. With adaptable utility Collector offers
a blank canvas for the creative act of collecting.
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