Bio
Noah Simblist is an artist and writer living in Dallas, TX. His work involves paintings, drawings, video, wall text and sound installations that explore the limits of symbolic meaning in political, religious and quasi-religious modernist iconography. Most recently these images have been placed in the context of texts and images that deal with the political role of the artist, the concept of forgiveness, Christian Zionism and the idea of home in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Simblist received his MFA from the University of Washington in 1999. He was a member of the artist cooperative, SOIL in Seattle in the year 2000 where he curated the exhibition Abstraction/Construction. In 2001 he moved to New York where he was the director of Garner Tullis, a print publisher who worked with artists such as Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman and Sean Scully.
In 2003, he moved to Dallas and has worked on a number of projects including co-curating an exhibition at Conduit gallery, Collecting and Collectivity with Charissa Terranova, Director of the UTD Central Track residency program. This exhibition was related to a series of lectures, panel discussions and exhibitions that question the relationship between radicality and the market in the contemporary avant-garde.
Simblist has written for the zine The Red Headed Stepchild, Art Papers, Artlies Glasstire.com, and Zerodegreesart.com. He co-edited issue #56 of Artlies magazine with Michelle White, Assistant Curator at the Menil.
Simblist was the recipient of the Meadows Museum’s 2007 Moss/Chumley Award and currently teaches painting, drawing, and criticism at SMU Meadows School of the Arts.