17 Facts About Joshua Simon

In 2024, Simon curated a seminal art project in Vienna Secession titled SLIME [1].

Joshua Simon is former director and chief curator at MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam, Israel, which made him the youngest museum director in the history of the country.

Joshua Simon's writing has been taught among other places at the Royal College of Art London, UK, Northwestern University Chicago, US, and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Norway.

Joshua Simon began curating in his rooftop apartment which he named The Free Academy Pavilion of Art, on Jaffa Rd.

Joshua Simon is signed as curator on some seminal exhibitions in the Israeli art scene and internationally.

In 2007, at the age of 28, Joshua Simon curated The Rear - The First Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art,[2] which was a multi-venue art event at the Herzliya Museum of Art and in non-art spaces around the coastal city, with new works commissioned from 75 artists.

That same year Joshua Simon co-curated with Maayan Strauss and Roy Chicky Arad the exhibition Doron, around a key Israeli collector Doron Sabag, and the relation of him being a key donor to museums to his business in human resources and the deteriorating workers rights in the local labor market.

Joshua Simon headed the theory studies at the Postgraduate program, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, which he helped to set up.

Joshua Simon's writing has been published in a wide range of publications: Springerin, Frieze, Afterall, Domus International, Modern Painters, Temporary Art Review, Artpress, Mousse Magazine, Art Actuel, e-flux journal, Public Seminar and Israeli Art magazine Studio.

Joshua Simon is a fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, and the Akademie de Kunst der Welt, Cologne.

Joshua Simon put forward several concept in the book, such as the unreadymade, sentimental value, and the promise of the dividual as a means for a vocabulary in this new economy of meaning.

Since the late 1990s, Joshua Simon has been working closely with poet and writer Roy Chicky Arad on a number of initiatives in Tel Aviv.

Parallel to these projects in poetry, since the 2000 Joshua Simon has been writing and directing short films as a member of the group of filmmakers Baboon, together with Tom Shoval, Daniel Adar, Michael Hanegbi, Adam Sanderson and Oren Shay.

Joshua Simon is the author of the poetry book National Citizens.

Joshua Simon translated Mierle Landerman Ukeles "Maintenance Art Manifesto" into Hebrew on its 40th anniversary for The New and Bad Contemporary Art Magazine.

Joshua Simon contributed to the magazine essays on Israeli cinema, on finance and psychosis, and on contemporary romantic comedies of the 2000s and Bromance movies, among other subjects.

Joshua Simon contributed to the culture section of the daily newspaper Globes with art reviews and interviews and was the newspaper's art critic and contributor to the paper's Op-Eds.