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 TRISH
SIMONITE
Trish Simonite was born in Norfolk, England,
and moved to Texas in the late 1960s. She began her studies at The University
of Texas at Austin, but finished and received her B.F.A and M.F.A. from the University
of Texas at San Antonio. She holds the rank of Professor at Trinity University,
San Antonio, where she teaches photography and digital art. The majority
of her photographic series reflect her interest in the landscape and in nature.
Her most recent series deal with the history of the landscape, albeit in a metaphorical
and poetic manner. Other themes that recur in her work are time, and memory.
Her introduction to photography was in an experimental photography course
and she continues to push her work in new and different directions. Influenced
by Buddhist philosophy she often juxtaposes elements that speak about permanence
and transience, the past and the present. Her work is rooted in and refers
to traditional photographic practice; however, she uses contemporary tools to
capture and create the images. Like many contemporary artists, her artistic practice
and methodology varies to suit each body of work, sometimes shooting and printing
straight, unmanipulated images; or sometimes manipulating her photographs.
Simonite's photographs have been exhibited in group and solo shows
in Europe and throughout the U.S.A., including: Alameda Ayer at the McNay Art
Museum, San Antonio; Chimera, Norwich Art Center, Norwich, England; Seeing Through
the Century, Carlisle Photo Festival, Carlisle, England; Honky Tonk, BlueCoat
Gallery, Liverpool, England; Re-Bloom: Dialogues in Exuberance, Victoria Price
Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Beauty, a Women in Photography International on-line
exhibition; Women Photographers in America, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, California; Liminal Britain, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas;
and Binary Articulations, George A. SPIVA Art Center, Joplin, Missouri.
Her
work has been published in books and magazines including: An Introduction
to the Art of Photography; Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists;
A Creative Approach to Photography and Zoom Magazine. Recent on-line publications
include features on the TICKA Arts and Aint-Bad Magazine sites. Collections holding
her work include: The Peter Palmquist Collection of Women Photographers and the
Women in Photography International Archive, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript
Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; the Harry Ransom Humanities
Photography Collection, University of Texas at Austin; The Witliff Collection,
San Marcos, Texas; The San Antonio Museum of Art; The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas;
the Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas and The University Health System
Robert P. Green and Methodist Hospitals, San Antonio, Texas.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Saturday Night and
Sunday Morning, Plaza Club, San Antonio, Texas.
2013-2104 Trish
Simonite Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, featured on the TICKA ARTS website
@ http://www.ticka-arts.com/?page_id=1691
2010 The Akrotiri Project,
Michael and Noémi Niedorff Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2008 Traces:
The History of Flint, Michael and Noémi Niedorff Gallery, San Antonio,
Texas
2007-2008 Alameda Ayer, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San
Antonio, Texas
2005 Cycladic Form, Airport Art Spaces, San Antonio,
TexasPleasure Beach, The Center for Contemporary Art, Abilene, Texas
2004 Beside
the Seaside Pictures from Norfolk and Suffolk Coast, Irene Carlson Photography
Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, California
2003 Cycladic
Form: Images of Ios and Santorini, Cyclades, Greece, Los Patios, San Antonio,
Texas (in conjunction with SAFOTO 2003) Images of Ios Island, Municipality of
Ios, Cyclades, Greece
2002 Absence and Presence: Landscape
as Memory, Center for Spirituality, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio,
Texas
1998 Trish Simonite - Off the Beaten Path, The Artist’s
Gallery, San Antonio, Texas (Catalogue)
1997 Reveries, Memories and
Introspections, McCormick Gallery, Midland, Texas
1993 Moments
Without Words, Visual Arts and Technology Center, San Antonio College,
San Antonio, Texas
1992 Chimera - Selected Works by Trish Simonite,
Norwich Arts Center, Norwich, Norfolk, England
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2015
Celebrating Women in Art Education, The Art Center of Corpus Christ, July, 2015.
2014
Seeing Through the Century, Carlisle Photo Festival, Carlisle, England.
Whimsical
. Magical . Surreal, An Arte Gallery, San Antonio, Texas.
Cell Phone
Photography, Texas Photographic Society on-line exhibition: http://texasphoto.org/contests/CellPhone/CellPhone_III/selected/
Photography
Invitational, San Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
Society
for Photographic Education Regional Exhibition, Middle Tennessee State University,
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Electric Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital
Art, California.
2014 Photo SPIVA 2014, Spiva Center for
the Arts, Joplin, Missouri.
Imagined Realities, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury,
Vermont. (Catalogue)
Hipstamatic Exhibition, A Smith Gallery, Fredericksburg,
Texas.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Plaza Club, San Antonio.
Snap
to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, California.
Mixing It Up, Palmetto
Center, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, Texas.
2013-2014 Artists
Who Teach, Public Art San Antonio (PASA) Exhibition, City Hall, San Antonio, Texas.
2013 Layers of Light, Palmetto Center, Northwest Vista College, San
Antonio, Texas, Texas.
2012 Society for Photographic Education
South Central Regional Conference Members Exhibition, Art Gallery, Mississippi
State University, Starkville, Mississippi.
Southern Open 2012, Acadia Center
for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana
In Your Dreams, on-line annex exhibition,
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont (Catalogue)
Personal Journey, Palmetto
Center, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, Texas
2011 Honky
Tonk, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Living Here, Artists influenced
by Asian Traditions, Gallery, Karma
Triyana Dhamachacra Monastery, Woodstock, New York (Catalogue)
Art to the Power of 10, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Alumni Exhibition,
Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Society
for Photographic Education: Selected Works from the Region, University of Texas
at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
The View From Here, Bismark Gallery, San
Antonio, Texas
Wabi Sabi, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, Texas
2010 Presence, from The Akrotiri Series, The San Antonio Museum
of Art, Texas
2009 Photographs from the Bill and Alice Wright
Collection, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
(Un)natural worlds, Rockport Art
Center, Rockport, Texas
2008 Fotogate, Watergate Gallery, Washington
D.C.
Playing with Time, Blue Star Contemporary Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
Binary Articulations, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, California
Presente! Centro Cultural Aztlan, San Antonio, Texas
2007 Visual
Directions, Texas, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Texas Nature Conservancy,
William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TexasRe-Bloom: Dialogues
in Exuberance, Victoria Price Fine Art & Design, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Trinity Faculty Exhibition, Michael and Noémi Neidorff Gallery, San Antonio,
Texas.
2006 Binary Articulations, Russell Holt Gallery,
Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas
Last Great Places in Texas, South Texas
College Library Art Gallery, McAllen, Texas
Genius Loci, 8th International
Festival of Artistic Photography, Hellenic Photographic Society, Athens, Greece
http://www.dididuc.com/2007/Infos/EE22EF8D-7B3F-4C59-B09E-2AE8A1BB0004.html
New Works, Galleria Ortiz Contemporary, San Antonio, Texas.
Society for Photographic
Education South Central Faculty Exhibition, Ingram Studio Arts Center Gallery,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Artists Looking at Art, McNay
Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Liminal Britain, Art Gallery, University of
Texas at San Antonio, Texas (Catalogue)
Liminal Britain, University of North
Texas, Denton, Texas (Catalogue)
2005 Crossroads:
Points of Transition and Intersection, Ameen Art Gallery, Nicholls State University,
Thibodaux, Louisiana
Binary Articulations, Porter Hall Art Gallery, Pittsburg
State University, Pittsburg
Binary Articulations, George A. Spiva Art Center,
Joplin, Missouri
Last Great Places in Texas, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center,
San Antonio, Texas (Catalogue)
Beauty, an on-line international juried exhibition
sponsored by Women in Photography International, Los Angeles, California, at http://www.womeninphotography.org/
Blue Star 20, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas
2004
Photons on Paper, River City Silver, San Antonio, Texas Curious
Music, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, Curator: Pat Brown
2003 FotoElectronica, a digital art exhibition, Bismark Gallery,
Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, Texas, Juror: Tom Baggs, Texas Photographers,
FotoSeptiembre at Blue Star Art Space, Blue Star Contemporary Art Space, San Antonio,
Texas
Texas Photographers at Flatbed Press, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas
2002 Photography and the Creative Impulse, Sarofim School of Fine
Arts Gallery, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
10è Rencontres
Photographiques REGARDS, La Salle Haute, Mas de Padri, Villeneuve de la Rivière,
Perpignan, France
16th Annual Texas Photographic Society Members Only Show,
Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas, & Williams Tower Gallery, Houston,
Texas
Photography Invitational: Spirituality & Creativity, Southwest
School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas
2000 Itinèrances,
L’Hotel de Divonne, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles,
France (Catalogue)
Suenos/Dreams, Trish Simonite and Letitia Huerta, Photo
Real, San Antonio, Texas
Composure, Art, Inc., San Antonio, Texas, an exhibition
in conjunction with FotoSeptiembre
7 Mujeres, University of the Incarnate
Word, San Antonio, Texas.
Photo S.A., San Antonio Art League, San Antonio,
Texas
1999 Points in Time, an exhibition at the Center for Spirituality,
on the campus of the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
TexasArt2K PaSA, a Millennium Survey of San Antonio Artists,” Airport Art
Spaces, San Antonio, Texas
1998 Transformations, Southwest Craft
Center, San Antonio, Texas (Catalogue)
1997 Blue Star XII,
Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
FotoFlora, Projex Gallery, Austin,
Texas
1996 Texas Photographic Society Eleventh Annual Members
Only Exhibition, Neidorff Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
People of San Antonio,
Cappy's Restaurant, San Antonio, Texas, in conjunction w/Texas Photographic Society's
PHOTOsynthesis II
Affirming a Visual Heritage
- The Collection of Alonzo and Dale Davis, The California African-American Museum,
Los Angeles, California
Eye/5, The Artists Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Ethereal Visions, Luna Notte Restaurant, San Antonio, Texas, part of FotoSeptiembre
'96 Latinoamericano
Part
Time Faculty Exhibition, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
1995 People,
Places and Things, Primary Object Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Exquisite Corps
Print Exhibit, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
Flight> a point
of departure, San Antonio International Airport, San Antonio, Texas
Distinguished
Alumni Exhibit, University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery
1994
Interiors, The Artists Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Paysage Parvenu -
Landscapes, Bee County College, Beeville, Texas
Artists for Life, Blue Star
Contemporary Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
1993 Shrines, Milagros
Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Lingering Spirits, St. Philips College, San Antonio,
Texas
Abracadabra, St. Philips College, San Antonio, Texas
1992-1989
Women in Photography International, Bangkok, Thailand, University of Sicily, Kulturhuset,
Stockholm, Sweden, the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, the Portland
School of Art, Portland, Oregon, the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington,
and Pacific Groves Center, California, U.S. A., sponsored by Kodak and Zoom Magazine
(Catalogue)
1992 Concerned Artists for the Environment,
Botanical Center, San Antonio, Texas
Fine Art, Dorland, Sweeney Jones Gallery,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1991 Room with Eight Views,
University of Texas Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1990 Another
Reality, Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock,
Arkansas and the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Catalogue)
Artists for Life, Blue Star Contemporary Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
Blaire
Carnahan Fine Art, San Antonio, Texas
1989 An Inventive Process,
Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas
Variations: The Hand Colored Photograph,
Air Gallery, Austin, Texas
Blue Star IV, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio,
Texas (Catalogue)
24 Hours a Day Living with Aids, Blue Star Contemporary
Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio Artists View Women,"University
of Texas at San Antonio.
Two Views, Center for Women, Our Lady of the Lake
University, San Antonio, Texas
1988 Double Exposure -
Todd Jagger and Trish Simonite, Texas Commerce Bank, Austin, Texas, sponsored
by Texas Photographic Society
1986 New Colorists, Trish Simonite
and Jim McGuinnes, Galeria De La Acequia, San Antonio, Texas
1988
Texas: Exploring the Boundaries, Fotofest '88, Lawndale Art and Performance
Center, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
New Directions, University
of Texas at San Antonio, Texas
Intersections, Arte Moderno, San Antonio,
Texas
1987 Women Photographers in America, 1987, Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Jurors: Judith Keller, Associate Curator
of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum & Catherine Lord, Dean, School
of Art, California Institute for the Arts, (Catalogue)
Second Biennial Faculty
Selects Exhibition, College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas
Converging
Rays, Art Cellar, San Antonio, Texas
Art Expo L.A. 1987, Los Angeles, California
(Catalogue)
Fall Faculty, 1987, Emily Edwards Gallery, Southwest Craft Center,
San Antonio, Texas
1986 Color, Texas Photographic Society,
First City Center, Austin, Texas
Dead Days, Blue Star Contemporary Art Space,
San Antonio, Texas
Some girls, Curator: Susan Mackin-Dolan, Locus Gallery,
San Antonio, Texas
Photography, Blue Collar Gallery, San Antonio, Texas.
1982 Photography, Sutton Loop Gallery, Maplewood, Missouri.
1972
Experimental Photography, Student Union Gallery, University of Texas at Austin,
Texas
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CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA
Society for
Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference, San Antonio, Texas,
2011: “Traces: The History of Flint.” Artist Lecture
New York School of Visual Arts 24th National Conference on Art &
the Education of Artists, “Romancing Nature Again,” New York, 2010:
“Traces: The History of Flint.” Panelist/Presenter
Society for Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference,
Nashville, Tennessee, Society for Photographic Education South Central Regional
Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2006: “Absence and Presence:
Landscape as Memory,” Artist Lecture
16th Annual New York
School of Visual Arts Liberal Arts and Education Conference “Art Remembers,”
Algonquin Hotel, New York, New York, 2002: “Absence and Presence:
Landscape as Memory.” Panelist/Presenter
Women’s’
History Month Celebration, St. Philips College, San Antonio, Texas, 2002: “Women
in Photography.” Panelist Chair/Presenter
14th Annual New
York School of Visual Arts Liberal Arts and Education Conference “Art and
Technology,” New York 2000. “Beauty and the Beast: Art
and Technology.” Paper
Palo Alto College Colloquy
Series, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas, 1994: “An Eclectic Vision:
or Echoes from the Past.” Artist Lecture.
Teaching
Towards Multiculturalism and Diversity, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas,
1991: Panelist/Presenter
ARTIST LECTURES AND
MUSEUM/GALLERY TALKS
2011 San Antonio Museum of
Art, A Conversation with Trish Simonite. Artist Talk. Available
on You Tube Parts 1 through 8 at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0KEvedGI0/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6jBR7GOFNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKc5w-w618
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNHY19KU1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVSWirGECYc/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfFTELYjFus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_lqacgmFs/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPm3k0NwIk&NR=1&feature=endscreen/ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPm3k0NwIk&NR=1&feature=endscreen/>
2009 Masterworks of Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio,
Texas, February 2009. Public Lecture
Masterworks of Photography, McNay
Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, February 2009, Lecture to McNay Docents
AT&T
Masterworks of Photography Exhibition audio recording, San Antonio, Texas. Audio
recordings available to public as part of the audio tour for Lee Friedlander’s
Kansas City, Missouri, William Eggleston’s Southern Environs of Memphis
and Man Ray’s Hands of the Countess Vallombrosa.
Rockport Art Center,
Rockport, Texas, in conjunction with (un)natural worlds exhibition. Gallery
Talk
2008 Trish Simonite – Liminal Images: Landscape
and Still Life as Metaphors for Memory, St. Philips College, San Antonio, Texas.
Artist Lecture.
2007 Conversation with Trish Simonite, McNay Art
Museum, San Antonio, Texas. Gallery Talk.
2006 Artists Looking
at Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. Artist Lecture.
2005 Liminal Britain, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. Artist Lecture
Last Great Places in Texas, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio,
Texas. Presenter/Panelist
2003 FotoElectronica, Bismark Gallery,
Blue Star Contemporary Art Space, San Antonio, Texas. Panelist/Presenter
2001 Yarmouth College, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, 2001.
Artist Lecture
2002 The Center for Spirituality, San Antonio, Texas.
Gallery Talk.
2000 Photo S.A, San
Antonio Art League Museum, San Antonio, Texas. Artist Lecture.
1999 Center
for Spirituality, San Antonio, Texas. Gallery Talk.
Mirroring Ourselves,
ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas. Artist Talk.
1998 South
Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas (formerly known as the Corpus
Christi Art Museum). Artist Lecture
1997 McCormick Gallery, Midland
College, Midland, Texas. Artist Lecture.
1994 Alamo Heights High
School Arts Honors Club, San Antonio, Texas. Artist Lecture.
Poteet High School
Graduating Art Class, Poteet, Texas. Artist Lecture
EDUCATION
MFA 1987 University of Texas
at San Antonio, Texas
B.F.A. 1984 University of Texas at San Antonio,
Texas, (Summa Cum Laude)
1979 University of Texas at Austin, Texas
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2005 - present
Associate Professor, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Fall 2009 Acting
Chair, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Fall 2000 - 2005 Assistant
Professor, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Fall 1999 - 2000 Lennox
Visiting Artist, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Fall 1993 - 1999 Adjunct
Faculty, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Spring 1992 - 1999 Adjunct
Faculty, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas
Spring 1992 - 1995 Adjunct
Faculty, St. Philips College, San Antonio, Texas
Spring, 1989 –
1991 Adjunct Faculty, Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas,
(full time temporary for 2 years)
1988-89, 1992 - 1993 Adjunct Faculty,
San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
1986 - 1988 Adjunct Faculty,
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas
1986 - 1987 Graduate
Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at San
Antonio
GRANTS
AND AWARDS
Trinity University Summer Stipend Award 2015
Trinity University Summer Stipend Award, 2013
Commission, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2011.
Artist Residency, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2011.
Trinity University Faculty Academic Leave, 2011.
Trinity University Special Project Grant, 2011.
Finalist for ArtPace Residency, 2011.
Finalist for 2 $70,000.00 commissions, Salud-Arte University Health
System, San Antonio, Texas, 2011.
Trinity University Summer Stipend Award, 2009.
Trinity University Special Project Grant, 2009.
Trinity University Faculty Academic Leave, 2007.
Trinity University Special Project Grant, 2007.
ArtPace Travel Grant, 2006.
Trinity University Summer Stipend Award, 2003.
Trinity University Special Project Grant, 2003.
Trinity University Summer Stipend Award, 2001.
Trinity University Special Project Grant, 2001.
EXHIBITIONS
CURATED
2013 Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison: Selections
from The Architect’s Brother Series, Michael and Noémi
Niedorff Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
2012 Masters of Jazz: The Photographs of
Jamie Hodgson, Michael and Noémi Niedorff Gallery, Trinity
University, San Antonio, Texas. (Co-curator).
2009 SAVA Photography Competition and Exhibition,
San Antonio, Texas.
1998 Women See Women, St. Philips College, San
Antonio, Texas.
1993 Double Exposure - An Exhibit of both the Commercial
and Fine Art Work of Seven Photographers, San Antonio College, San
Antonio, Texas.
EXHIBITIONS JURIED
2009 Congressional Art Competition, elementary
and high school art competition, San Antonio, Texas. Juror.
San Antonio Museum Reach Photography Competition and Exhibition,
a city-wide photography competition open to the public, San Antonio
Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
2008 Luminaria, citywide arts festival, San
Antonio, Texas.
Bexar County Land and Trust student photography competition.
2006 Artist Foundation film/video/animation
grants, San Antonio, Texas.
Ani Awards (animation awards), San Antonio, Texas.
SJST elementary through high school photography competition, San
Antonio, Texas.
Battle of Flowers Art Show, San Antonio, Texas.
City of San Antonio Christmas Card elementary through High School
Competition.
2004 Texas Photographic Society's Members
Fellowship Awards.
2003 Regional High School, Middle and Elementary
School Art Awards Southwest School of Art and Craft.
2001 Aspects de la Photographie Americain,
an evening of discussion and slide presentation at the International
Photography Festival in Villaneuve la Riviere, France.
Spina Bifida Children’s Christmas Card Competition.
Barbara Bush Middle School Photography and Visual Art Competition.
Reagan High School Photography Exhibition
2000 6A Catholic High School Art Competition,
Pleasanton High School, San Antonio, Texas.
1998 People, Places and Things, Institute
for South Texas, Corpus Christi and the Art Center,
Corpus Christi.
Endeavors III, the Southwest Craft Center’s annual juried
mixed media exhibition.
Regional High School Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition, Palo Alto
College, San Antonio, Texas.
1991 Central Texas Regional Scholastic
Art Awards, San Antonio Art Institute.
Rural High School Art Exhibition at Palo Alto College
1990 Harlandale Elementary Juried Art
Exhibit, Harlandale High School, San
Antonio, Texas.
1989 Central Texas Regional Scholastic Art
Awards, University of Texas at San
Antonio, Texas
1987 Central Texas Regional Scholastic Art
Awards.
PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED in BOOKS/MAGAZINES/CATALOGS
2015 “Trish Simonite,”
Aint Bad Magazine, April 1, 2015. http://aintbadmagazine.com/article/2015/04/01/trish-simonite/
2011 Summer at the Bluecoat, Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool,
England. Brochure.
Living Here Artists Influenced by Asian Traditions, The Karma Triyana
Dhamachacra Monastery, Woodstock, New York
Texas Photographic Society Seventeenth Annual Collectors’
Print Auction Catalogue, Texas Photographic Society.
Catalogue.
Stern, Katie, An Introduction to the Art of Photography, 1st Edition,
Delmar
Cengage. Reproduction.
Texas Photographic Society Sixteenth Annual Collectors’ Print
Auction Catalogue, Texas Photographic
Society.
2009 Texas Photographic Society Fifteenth Annual Collectors’
Print Auction Catalogue, Texas Photographic Society.
2008 Robinson, Riley, Cuba, Nan, Art at Our Doorstep:
San Antonio Artists and Writers, Trinity University Press, 2008,
p. 147. Reproduction.
Texas Photographic Society Fourteenth Annual Collectors’ Print
Auction Catalogue, Texas Photographic Society.
2007 Fotoseptiembre USA SAFOTO 2007 Exhibitions Program
and Catalogue, p. 7.
Texas Photographic Society Thirteenth Annual Collectors’ Print
Auction Catalogue, p. 1, Texas Photographic Society.
2006 Works by San Antonio Composers played by San Antonio
Performers, CASA (Composers Alliance of San Antonio, Texas), CD.
Cover Reproduction.
Brilliant Magazine, Oct. 2006, pp. 58 & 60. Reproduction.
FotoSeptiembre USA 2006 Program and Catalogue, p. 7.
2005 Dart International, Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter 2005/06,
p. 20. Reproduction.
10th Anniversary FotoSeptiembre USA 2005 Program and Catalogue,
pp. 7 & 9.
2003 Hertel, Paula and Reisberg, Daniel, Editors,
Memory and Emotion, Oxford University Press. Cover Reproduction.
Texas Photographic Society's 2003 Membership Brochure. Reproduction.
9th Annual Collectors’ Print Auction Catalogue, Texas Photographic
Society. Catalogue.
FOTOSA 2003 Catalogue. Catalogue.
2002 Voices of Art Magazine, Vol. 10, Nov. 2002, pp.
34-35. Reproduction.
8th Annual Collectors’ Print Auction: Catalogue, Texas Photographic
Society. Catalogue.
FotoSeptiembre 2006 Catalogue. Catalogue.
Sixth Annual Collectors’ Print Auction Catalogue, Texas Photographic
Society. Catalogue.
2001 16th Annual Members Only Catalogue, published by Texas
Photographic Society.
Seventh Annual Collectors’ Print Auction Catalogue, published
by Texas
1998 FotoSeptiembre 1998, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico
City, Mexico. Catalogue.
University Family Health Center, S.E., Catalogue. Catalogue.
Texas Photographic Society’s Exhibition and Auction Catalogue.
Catalogue.
1997 Texas Photographic Society’s Exhibition and Auction
Catalogue. Catalogue.
1996 Texas Photographic Society’s Exhibition and Auction
Catalogue. Catalogue.
FotoSeptiembre 1996 Catalogue, published by Centro de la Imagen,
Mexico City, Mexico. Catalogue.
Seven Photographers, a publication and presentation at the San Antonio
Museum of Art, written and presented by Judy Bankhead. Reproduction.
1988
Texas Exploring the Boundaries, Fotofest '88, Lawndale Art and Performance
Center, University of Houston. Exhibition Poster
1990
Zoom, The International Image Magazine, Worldwide Media Service,
New York,
1974 Boyd, Harry, Jr., A Creative Approach to Controlling
Photography, Heidelberg Publications, Inc., Austin, Texas, pp. 82
& 195.
WORKSHOPS
2001 The Jung Center, San Antonio, Texas, “Women See
Women,” given in collaboration with Cheryl Kalter.
1997 Texas Photographic Society's Photosynthesis Weekend Workshops,
"Collage as a Photographic Medium, St. Edward’s University,
Austin, Texas.
1976 Texas Photographic Society’s Workshops 7, “Alternative
Photographic Processes,” San Antonio College Department of
Visual Arts & Technology.
PORTFOLIOS
"Distinguished Photographer's Portfolio," a juried selection
of photographs presented as an award to Linda McCartney by Women
in Photography. The presentation was made at the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, England, and again at the Royal Photographic
Society, Bath, England, the presentation was broadcast over BBC
radio. Vanitas, From the Goddess Series, was selected for inclusion.
REPRESENTATION
Batista Fine Art, (formerly the KNEW Gallery), Washington D.C.
Director, Fernando Batista.
The Olana Group, 505 West el Prado Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78212-1725.
Director, Ms. Allison Hays Lane. Website: http://www.olanagroup.com.
COLLECTIONS
Peter Palmquist Collection of Women Photographers and the Women
in Photography International Archive, Western Americana, Beinecke
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Photography & Film
Collection, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Linda Pace Foundation Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Witliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Texas
State University, San Marcos, Texas
Bill & Alice Wright Photography Collection, Grace Museum, Abilene,
Texas
Akin, Gump, Attorneys at Law, Corporate Collection, Austin, Texas
Command P Corporate Art Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
Family Health Center, Southeast, San Antonio, Texas, commission
for their permanent Fulbright & Jaworski, San Antonio,
Texas.
Joeris Construction Company, San Antonio, Texas
University Health System University Hospital, Medical Center, San
Antonio, Texas.
University Health System Robert B. Green Hospital Collection, San
Antonio, Texas.
University Family Health Center Northwest, San Antonio, Texas.
Texas Blood Bank Art Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Numerous private collections here and abroad
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
ArtPace
McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum.
Texas Photographic Society
Society for Photographic Education
Women in Photography International
San Antonio Museum of Art
UPDATE - JULY 2015 - MARCH 2016
In the summer of 2015 Trish Simonite received a Trinity University
summer stipend and spent a month taking photographs along the coast
of Norfolk, England. The new series is called The Happisburgh Project.
It addresses the history of this ancient landscape as well as Trish’s
own very personal memories of this site where her parents had a
bungalow and where she has spent many summers. Happisburgh is a
small village on the coast of Norfolk where in 2013 mud flats were
uncovered on the beach due to coastal erosion. Ancient footprints
were found in the mud alongside the teeth of small mammals and other
artifacts. The footprints proved to be circa 800,000 years old and
are the oldest evidence of human habitation outside of Africa. A
few of the photographs from this series will be in an exhibition
at Gray Matters Gallery in Dallas in the Ticka Arts Exhibition in
February 2016.
Grande, a Wisconsin company known primarily for making cheese awarded
Trish a commission. Overland Partners, an architecture firm in San
Antonio, designed their new headquarters and artists were commissioned
to make work specifically for the new complex. Trish produced four
48”x48” still life images depicting the four seasons.
In September 2015 Trish Simonite began a phased out retirement from
teaching at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She will continue
to teach a full load of courses every spring semester through May
2018 when she will retire. She plans to spend her time off traveling,
photographing, dancing, reading, gardening, spending time with family
and friends.
One of Trish’s goals for the future is to procure an exhibition
with her three talented children: Peter Simonite (a director of
photography and cinematographer, Nick Simonite (a photographer),
Francesca Simonite (a photographer currently pursuing an M.F.A.
in photography); and her husband, Richard Simonite, who makes contemporary
jewelry.
UPDATE - MARCH 2016 - APRIL 2017
For
the last year Trish has been working on commissions. Last year she
produced 14 large-scale still life images that were approximately
90"x66.5". They were printed on film that and applied
to a series of window in a hallway in the Transplant Unit of University
Health System Hospital in the Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
In addition she produced 23 smaller scale 20"x13" still
life images that were printed on dibond also for The University
Health System Hospital. She is currently working on a new commission
for the hospital that will also be still life images to be printed
on film and applied to a series of 10 sets of doors.
Trish's three children who are all lens-based artists (two
photographers and a cinematographer) continue to be very successful
photographers and cinematographers. You can find a link to their
websites on the donor wall.
Peter Simonite's movie he was director of photography on
"Voice From The Stone" starring Emilia Clarke from "Game
of Thrones" was released in April 2017:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iry-fullyhosted_011&hsimp=yhs-fullyhosted_011&hspart=iry&p=Voice+from+the+stone+trailer#id=1&vid=b4d76c0df190818f713aa8a05f9d89c9&action=click/
Nicholas has been working on some major commercial projects
in Texas and across the USA. Peter and Nicholas also just completed
a music video:
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/watch-whitneys-new-video-for-their-cover-of-lions-youve-got-a-woman/.
Francesca Simonite graduated with her MFA in Photography
from Brooklyn College in New York in May 2016 and is currently teaching
photography at a Middle School in Austin, Texas. She is looking
forward to working on her photography during an artist residency
this June in Brazil.
Trish Simonite taught this spring at Trinity University in
San Antonio, but is looking forward to travels and working on her
own projects over the summer and fall and will be retiring in May
2018.
Women In Photography
International Charter Member
Trish Simonite
Professor
Department of Art & Art History
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
WIPI
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UPDATE
- Photographer Response - MARCH 2016 -
APRIL 2017
UPDATE
FINAL May
2017 COMPLETE
website 1999-2017
womeninphotography.org file transfer to the Beinecke.
All organization files, computer, external hard drive, printed materials,
photographs, DVDs, books, competitions files and onsite installation
art work.
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