About – BARBARA SIMCOE

Bio

Barbara Simcoe has been a working artist for more than thirty years. Her formal art training was at the University of Illinois, Urbana and the University of North Texas, Denton. She lived and worked in Dallas 16 years where she was very involved in the art community and in exhibiting her work. Currently residing in Omaha, NE she is a Professor on the faculty of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska and has taught painting and drawing since 1998. Barbara has shown widely in nationally and in European venues in many invitational and juried exhibitions. She has had numerous one person exhibitions, awards and grants, in 2004 she received a Fulbright Grant for which she lived, taught and made artwork in Lithuania. She traveled to Israel summer 2005 to participate in an international exhibition in the city of Akko. Academic year 2006-07 she was on sabbatical, the focus of which was working in the studio and a trip to Poland where she had a solo exhibition of her digital photos at the Albert Gallery in Krakow. Her most recent international exhibition was in the Czech Republic for which she showed digital photo collages influenced by a trip to France summer 2008. Barbara’s work consists of oil paintings, graphite and ink drawings and digital photography. Stylistically she works with realistic figuration inhabiting psychological and symbolic spaces.

Artist Statement 2019-Present

I engage the intuitive subconscious to construct pictorial ideas that are realized by employing a photo collage strategy. By compositing fragmented imagery for my paintings and drawings, narrative undercurrents emerge that call for decoding. The image sources are photographs I have taken and others are appropriated. The latter imagery is employed using discreet pictorial elements removed from original context.

Work titles, often poetic fragments in sentence form, are chosen in a manner similar to that which I employ to integrate imagery in the artworks. I frequently draw from poems by R.M. Rilke, Pessoa and by contemporary Ukrainian poets. Titles augment the work as they are in dialog with the imagery. They serve as an additional means to access process and decipherment.

As my body of work has been developing, influences from current global conditions have been taken into account, expanding my intentionality out of necessity. Many of these paintings and drawings project states of anxiety, tension and sometimes despair. In all the work, gesture is a signifier of meaning, as figures exist in unreal spaces that defy logic. Emergent narratives have no linear structure. They are meant to be felt, not understood.

Artist Statement 2006-2018

The breadth of feminine archetypes is what interests me – woman as vessel of creativity, as intercessor, as of the earth, as mother, as primal aspect of the feminine/masculine dichotomy, as the complement of masculine divinity. I work with these archetypes in order to create works that function as metaphor. My primary intention is to give form to something that is non-visual and incomprehensible – to bring them within reach. The artworks come out of the belief that discord and disorientation and a conflicted stance between the integration of interiority and the external must be experienced in order to approach the attainment of release of spirit that can regenerate wholeness. If this is possible, spirit provokes reflection on our subconscious.

I depict female figurative imagery in terms of vulnerability – the figures are in stances sometimes of protection and concealment but are at the same time emergent. They are often in postures that are precariously balanced or in contradictory stances in relation to the settings. Augmenting this, they inhabit notional and intangible spaces composed of imagery from the natural world and architectural fragmentation. The spaces do not contain the figures in a concrete “reality,” rather they belong fittingly to the subconscious and metaphor. Figures in these environments invite the viewer to engage with and quietly participate in a mediated space that is liminal, ephemeral and intuitively accessed.

Curriculum Vita

Education

Graduate University of North Texas, Denton, TX. MFA Painting and Drawing 1982

Undergraduate University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. BFA Painting and Drawing 1976

Teaching Experience

Since 1998. Professor of Art. University of Nebraska Omaha

1997 -98. Visiting Faculty. Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE

1997. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art. University of Nebraska Omaha

1996-97. Visiting Artist. Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX

1996. Visiting Artist. University of Texas at Dallas

1995. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art. University of Nebraska Omaha

1993. Visiting Assistant Professor of Art. University of Texas at Arlington

1991-92. Full time studio art lecturer. University of North Texas, Denton, TX

1991. Full time studio art lecturer. University of North Texas, Denton, TX

1988-89. Visiting drawing instructor. Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX

1982. Part time painting instructor. Tarrant County Junior College, Hurst, TX

1982. Part time painting and design instructor. Cooke County College, Gainesville, TX

1979-81. Teaching Fellow: drawing instructor. University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Research/Exhibition History

One and Two Person Exhibitions

2022

For Ukraine, College of St. Mary’s art gallery, Omaha, NE. One Person

2020

Encounter, Clear Lake Arts Center, Clearlake, IA. One Person

2018

Between the Regions, Kreft Art Gallery, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI. One person.

2017

Enigma: Encounters with the Black Madonna, Galeria Wydzialu Sztuki, Pedagogical University of Kracow. One person.

Close Imaginary Time, Hillmer Gallery, College of St. Mary, Omaha, NE, One person.

2016

Immutable Time, Kimmell Harding Art Center, Nebraska City, NE, One person.

Liminal Space, Wayne State College, Wayne, NE, One person.

Threshold, Sunderland Gallery, Cathedral Arts Center, Omaha, NE, One person.

2013

Barbara Simcoe and Jenni Brandt, Metropolitan Community College Gallery, Elkhorn, NE, Two person.

2012

Barbara Simcoe: Digital Photography, Simpson College, Indianola, IA, One person.

2011

Mediations, Peru State College, Peru, NE, One person.

Recent Works, Chadron State College, Chadron, NE, One person.

2010

Photo Collages Palacky, University Art Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic, One person.

Matadors and Madonnas, Jackson Artworks, Omaha, NE, Two person.

2009

Drawings & Digital Photos Corning Art Center, Corning, NE, One person.

2007

Part of the Blessing, Albert Gallery, Krakow, Poland, One person.

Barbara Simcoe Paintings and Drawings, Norfolk Art Center, Norfolk, NE, One person.

2006

Continuation and Promise, Jewish Community Center Gallery, Omaha, NE, One person.

Retracing, Hillmer Gallery, College of St. Mary, Omaha, NE, One person.

2004

Barbara Simcoe, Paintings, Rosewood Art Gallery, Kettering Art Center, Kettering, OH, One person.

Barbara Simcoe American Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, One person.

2003

Paintings & Drawings, Crown Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, One person.

Barbara Simcoe, Painter, Allison Gallery, Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN, One person.

2002

Dark Night, Creighton University Art Gallery, Omaha, NE, One person.

Mediated Witness, Lorimer Gallery, Southwest Missouri Art Center, Cape Giradeau, MO, One person.

2001

In Between Time, Nordstrand Visual Arts Gallery, Wayne State College, One person.

2000

Waiting, Bellevue University Art Gallery, Bellevue, NE, One person.

Paintings, Drawings and Digital Images, Peru State College, Peru, NE, One person.

1999

Recent Paintings and Drawings Arts, Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, One person.

1998

Drawings & Paintings, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, One person.

Barbara Simcoe & Winston McGee, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, Two person.

By the Book, Brazos Gallery Richland College, Dallas, TX, Two person.

1995

Paintings

University of Omaha Art Gallery, Omaha, NE, One person.
1993

New Paintings, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX, One person.

1992

Paintings & Drawings, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, One person.

1991

Paintings & Drawings on Life Re-Moved, CIU Art Gallery, University of Illinois,Chicago, IL, One person.

1990

Recent Paintings, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX, Two person.

1989

Paintings & Drawings, Eastfield College Gallery, Mesquite, TX, One person.

1988

Paintings & Drawings, Oltimo Salon, Dallas, TX, One person.

1987

Barbara Simcoe and David Smith, Oak Street Gallery, Denton, TX, Two person.

1985

Nothing Should Be Painted Which Can Be Kept Bright, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, Two person.

1981

MFA Thesis Exhibition, UNT Art Gallery, Denton, TX, Two person.

Recent Works, University of North Texas Union Art Gallery, Denton, TX, Two person.

Select Juried Exhibitions

2023

Tieton 10x10x10 2023: Small Works Internationanl Exhibition, Tieton Arts & Humanities Gallery, Tieton, WA.

Texas National 23, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX.

2022

Insights V, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Bodyscapes, PH21 Contemporary Photo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

12x12x12: A Celebration of Community, Arts Council Gallery, Oswego, OR.

18th Pollux Awards Exhibition, Foto Nostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

56th Annual National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, Joseph A. Cain Memorial Art Gallery, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX.

CAA’s 2022 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.

A Tribute to Small Works, Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, PA.

The Figure in Contemporary Art, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

Lux Art Center Annual Auction, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE.

2021

Throughlines, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN.16th Pollux Biennial FotoNostrom Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

32nd Annual Juried Digital Photography Show, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY.

Transformations 2021, Pennsylvania Center for Photography, Doylston, PA.

The Nude, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC.

What is Beautiful: The Aesthetics of Pleasing the Mind, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

32nd National Drawing & Print Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of University.

Real People 2021, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL.

Black/White & Shades of Gray, Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA.

2020

10x10x10xTieton Small Works Exhibition, Tieton Art & Humanities Art Center, Tieton , WA.

70th A•1 Exhibition, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT.

Sacred and Liturgical Art Exhibition, Springfield Art Association Gallery, Springfield, IL.

Insights IV, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL.

64 Arts, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL.

Viewpoints 2020, Studio Montclair Gallery, Montclair, NJ.

Jones Gallery Annual Juried Show, Jones Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

Small Works, KSU Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH.Go Figure Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL.

Women’s Works, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL.

Open Theme Annual, Webster Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.

2019

Woman Made Open Show, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.

13th Pollux Award Exhibition, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

Small Works, Maryland Federation of Arts, Annapolis, MD.

2019 Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation Art Center, Long Beach Island, NJ.

#Women, Curve Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD.

2018

Insights, Webster Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.

Real People, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL.

Alteration, Millepiani Gallery, in association with “Loosen Art”, Rome, Italy

Tenth National Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery,” New York, NY.

Small Treasures, Inverness Art Center, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Behind the Veil, Open Space Gallery, Stone Btanch School of Art, Rockville, MD.

Small Works 2 ½, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY.

National Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Fredericks, MD.

Insights II, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Viewpoints 2018, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ.

Transitions, Fred Parker Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

2017

Annual Juried Art Exhibition SAAC, South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado, AK.

National All Media Juried Exhibition Online, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA.

Art at the Center, Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, Overland Park, KS.

Women’s Works 2017, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL.

Kreft Juried Exhibition, Concordia University Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.

Subjective, New York Public Library (WCA – NY Exhibition), New York, NY.

Valdosta National, Dedo Maranville Fine Art Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.

2016

Nebraska Rising, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

Annual Juried Art Exhibition, South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado, AR.

State of Unions Core Annex – Women’s Caucus for Arts Denver, Denver, CO.

Chatauqua National Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.

5th Annual Juried Exhibition, JF Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL.
Viewpoints, Aljira Contemporary Art Space, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ.

2015

Media Matters, Foundry Art Centre, Saint Charles, MO.

A Sense of Place Gertrude, Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
Annual Juried Art Competition, South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado, AK.

Real People, The Old Court House, Woodstock, IL.
The Water Show, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO.
Strange Paradise, First Street Gallery, New York, NY.
Unconventional Means, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA.
Art of Painting, Washington Art Association, Washington, CT.
Force of Nature, Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth, NH.
The Juried Exhibition Art at the Center, Overland Park, KS.
Water Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
35th Annual Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University Galleries, Peoria, IL.

Creation Care,Water Bridge Gallery, Denver Seminary, Littleton, CO.
Small Works 2015, Shirt Factory, Glen Falls, NY.

2014

Deconstructed/Reconstructed, The New Bohemian Gallery, Brainerd, MN.

Passage Verum, Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR.
Lore Degenstein Gallery Sixth Annual Figurative Competition, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA.
Real/Surreal, Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art Augusta, GA.
National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS.
Northern National Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI.
Water: A Universal Human Right, Robert Morris State Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.

LaGrange National XXVIII, LaGrange Museum, LaGrange, GA.
Women’s Works, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL.

2013

Paintings and Photographs, Fred Simmon Gallery, Omaha, NE.
Virtual Reality Foundry Exhibitions, St. Charles, MO.
American Art Today, Figures Bascom Center for Visual Arts, Highlands, NC.

National Juried Exhibition, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Monmouth, IL.

Women Take Flight, Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville AR.
Coburn Goes Small, Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland OH.
Persona, Maloney Art Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ.
Women’s Works, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL.
Pacific Art League Annual National Exhibition, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA.

2012

Small Oil Paintings, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS.

Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance Gallery, Houston, TX.

Contemporary Women 6, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA.
43rd Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas Gallery, Denton, TX.
Song of the Land, Hebrew Union College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Open Small Works, NAWA Gallery, New York, NY.
Works on/of Paper, Pacific Art League Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
Women’s Works, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL.

Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Online exhibition.

Art on Paper, MFA Gallery, Annapolis, MD.

2011

Annual Juried Exhibition, X Gallery, Xavier College, Cincinnati, OH.

From Our Perspective National Women’s Art Exhibition, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI.
Strokes of Genius, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD.

Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI.
Drawing Expanse, Space 4 Art, San Diego, CA.
Evolutionaries: Art & Healing, Houston Community College Central Art Gallery Houston, TX.

Sanctuaries in Time, Barnard University Kraft Center, New York, NY.
76h Annual Competition: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Palm Beach State College Art Gallery, Palm Beach FL.
On Being Human Picture Art Foundation, California State Univerisy, Dominguez Hills, Carson City, CA.
The Process of Peace, Towson Arts Collective, Towson, MD.
32nd Annual Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO.

Ephemera, Northwest Missouri State University Art Gallery, Maryville, MO.

Photo ’11, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL.
1000 Words: Contemporary Art as Narrative, Business of Art Center, Manitou Spring, CO.

2010

Small Treasures, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE.
Painting: The Artful Palette, Foundry Art Centre, St Charles MO.
Figuratively Speaking National Juried Exhibition, EYA Gallery, Montgomery AL.

Visual Narrative, Gallery 180, The Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL.
56th Stockton Art League Exhibition, The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA.
5th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
Pinnacle 2010, Foster Tanner Fine Arts Center, Tallahassee, FL.
Axis Gallery 5th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

Juried Photography Exhibition, Delaplaine Center, Frederick, MD.

Enlightenment Through Experience, Rosicrucian Art Salon, Albuquerque, NM.

The White Show, Hausmann Millworks, San Antonio, TX.

2009

National Juried Art Exhibition: Small Works, Harper College, Palatine, IL.

National Women’s Exhibition, Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NE.
The White Show, Balm Gallery, Lawrence, KS.
Current Exposures, Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ.

2008

National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Art Center, Wichita, KS.

National All Media ’08, Chico Art Center, Chico, CA.
Love Works, City Arts Factory, Kiene Quigley Community College, Orlando, FL.

2007

A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
Small Wonders, Circle Gallery of MFA, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD.

2006

Bridging Cultures Through Art: A Fulbright Alumni Art Exhibition, Les Atlassides Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.

National Small Oil Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS.
San Francisco Bay Area National Juried Show, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Languages of Silence, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA.

2005

Yitzhak International Gathering, Akko Israel 2005.
2003

Combined Talents: Florida International, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL.
Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show,, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA.
Mute, John A. Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD.
Twenty-Fourth Annual Paper in Particular, Larson Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, MO.
Bread Upon the Waters, Traveling Exhibition of drawings and prints, March 2003 to June 2006.
Venues:

1st Evangelical Free Church of Austin, March 1 to April 31, 2003, Austin, TX,

Gallery W. May 15 to September 15, 2003, Sacramento, CA.
Billy Graham Museum, September 20 to October 22, Wheaton, IL.
Witworth College Art Gallery, November 1 to Nov. 30, 2003, Spokane, WA.

Evangel College Art Gallery, December 6 to January 6, Springfield, MO.

2002

58th Juried Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA.

National Women’s Exhibition, Impact Artists’ Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

2001

Superstar: Female Gender Outlaw, Jaffee Arts Center, Norfolk, VA.

2000

Combined Talents: The Tallahassee Florida National Competition, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL.

12th Annual National Art Competition, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO.
Who’s Afraid of Y2K?, Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
The Psychological Figure, The Center for Spirituality and the Arts, San Antonio, TX. 3 Person.

1999

Redefining Feminism, Beacon Street Gallery, Truman College, Chicago, IL.

1997

19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS.

Cross Currents, The Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS.
Myth America, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI.
Juried All Media Works Exhibition, Eklektikos Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Works on Paper, University Gallery, University of Texas at Tyler, TX.

1994

Contemporary American Artists Gaál, Imre Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

1993

State of the Art, Institute of Fine Arts, Wharton, MA.

Texas Art Celebration ‘93, The Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX.
1992

Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Competition, Cheekwood Fine ArtsCenter, Nashville, TN.
1991

New American Talent Honorable Mention, included in slide section of show, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX.
1990

Salon de Peinture et d’Estampe de Montréal, F.R.R.I.C. International (Fondation pour laRecherche et la Réalization en Industrie Culturelle), Montréal, Québec, Canada.

1988

Art in the Metroplex, Texas Christian University Gallery, Fort Worth, TX.

1987

Art in the Metroplex, Texas Christian University Gallery, Fort Worth, TX.

1986

Mid-America Biennial, Owensboro Museum of Art, Ownesboro, KY.

Paper in Particular, University of Columbia Art Gallery, Columbia, MO.
1982

Voertman Art Exhibition, North Texas State University Art Gallery, Denton, TX.

1981

Rutgers National Works on Paper, Rutgers University Art Gallery, Camden, NJ.

15th Annual Southwest Area Art Exhibition, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX.

27th Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN.

Select Invitational Group Exhibitions

2022
Heaven, Hell & Everything In-Between, Hot Shops Gallery, Omaha, NE.
2021
Kent Bellows Studio Mentors Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
Cathedral Arts Project Invitational, Sunderland Gallery, St. Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha. NE.
From Virtual to Reality, Clearlake Art Center, Clearlake, IA.
2020
Cathedral Arts Project Invitational, Sunderland Gallery, St. Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha. NE.
2020
Cathedral Arts Project Invitational, Sunderland Gallery, St. Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha. NE.
2019
Cathedral Arts Project Invitational, Sunderland Gallery, St. Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha. NE.
2018
Why Collage? Research Station, Outsider Art Gallery, Kracow, Poland.
Breaking Criminal Traditions, Penn College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA.
KBMP Mentors Exhibition, Kent Bellow Studio Art Gallery, Omaha, NE.

2017

KBMP Mentors Exhibition, Kent Bellows Studio Art Gallery, Omaha, NE.

Breaking Criminal Traditions, Human Rights Institute Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ.

Tini, Kent Bellows Studio, Omaha, NE.
Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards Exhibition, Gallery 72, Omaha, NE.

2016

Nebraska Rising, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.
Breaking Criminal Traditions, Gallery of Kean University, Human Rights Institute, Union, New Jersey.

2015

Threshold, Kent Bellows Studio, Omaha, NE.
2014

Breaking Criminal Traditions, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL.
2013

Breaking Criminal Traditions, IIT Chicago – Kent College of Law Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Dallas Sites, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.
7th Annual International Art Exhibition, Albert Gallery, Krakow, Poland.

College of St. Mary’s Invitational, College of St. Mary’s Art Gallery, Omaha, NE.

2009

To the Nines, Hot Shops Art Gallery, Omaha, NE.
Annual Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

2008

Annual Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

2007

Go Figure, Bellevue University Art Gallery Omaha, NE.

20th Anniversary Invitational, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH.

Bemis Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.
2006

8th Annual Bemis Center Art Auction, Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE.

Sarah George 2006 Art Auction, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
Project Yitzhak, Canton Musseum of Art, Canton, Ohio.
Yitzhak: The Many Faces of Isaac, South Shore Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Munster, IN.

Objects of Desire Fundraiser, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

Grand Opening Exhibition, Corning Center for Fine Arts, Corning, IA.

2004

Figuratively Speaking, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE.
2003

Daughters Woman’s Caucus for Art Travelling Exhibition, Beacon St. Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2002

20/20 Vision, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

Daughters Woman’s Caucus for Art Traveling Exhibition,

Venuse:

Studio Art West Art Center, House Springs, MO.

Colfax Cultural Center, Southbend, IN.

Hillmer Art Gallery, College of St. Mary’s, Omaha, NE.
2001

Art Auction2001, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

Life Cycles NWCA Exhibition, Creighton University Art Gallery, Omaha, NE and the Burkholder Project in Lincoln, NE

Invitational Exhibition, Hilmer Gallery, College of St. Mary’s, Omaha, NE.
CHAIRity Art Auction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

Art Faculty Exhibition, UNO Art Gallery, Omaha, NE.
1999 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX.

Faculty Exhibition, UNO Art Gallery, Omaha, NE.

1998

Twenty by 500, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX. (Show will travel to Waco Art Center, Waco,TX.)

Gallery Artists, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX.

1997

Erotica, Antiquarium Gallery, Omaha, NE.

Gallery Artists, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX.

1996

Brookhaven Faculty Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Dallas, TX.

1995

The Nona and Richard Barrett Collection: Texas Collects D-Art, Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX.

1994

Exquisite Corpse, DARE at McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX.

1992

40th Birthday Benefit Auction, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX.

Art Department Faculty Show, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX.

1991

Gallery Artists, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX.

Painting Invitational, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX.

Art Department Faculty Show, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX.

1990

Gallery Artists, Eugene Binder Galerie, Cologne, Germany.

Silent Auction, Dallas Museum of Art; Dallas, TX.

Real Images, Griffin Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.

1989

The TV Show, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.

Artists Table Auction, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.

Men By Women, Sheraton Dallas Hotel Gallery, Dallas, TX.

1988

JFK Performance Benefit, Texas Theater, Dallas, TX.

Memory Center for Research in Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.

Gallery Artists, Eugene Binder Gallery; Dallas, TX.
Zoomorphism: Animals in Art, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, TX.

X500X, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.
Between the Cracks, Center for Research in Contemporary Art Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington; Arlington, TX.
City Lifem Texas Commerce Center, Dallas, TX.

1987

Ca Performance The Warehouse, Tallahassee, FL.

1986

Member Group Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.

1985

Industrial Action, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.

Left-Right, 500X Gallery (Non-member curated show that took place in conjunction with the Republican National Convention), Dallas, TX.

5th Annual Invitational, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ.

Citizenship Credits, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.

1983

Member Group Show, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1981

3rd Annual Invitational, Mountainview College, Dallas, TX.

Honors, Awards and Nominations

2022
Purchase Award 56th Annual National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX.
2021
Purchase Award, 32nd National Drawing & Print Exhibition Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of University.
2019
Kito Mbiango Honorable Mention, 13^th Pollux Award Exhibition.

2017

Best of Show: 2017 Kreft Juried Exhibition Concordia University Art Gallery, AnnArbor, MI.

Omaha Entertainment and Arts Award for participation in best group show Nebraska Rising at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

2016

Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards nominee for participation in best group show Nebraska Rising at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

2014

American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist in Residence.

2013

UCRCA University Research Grant.Honorable mention American Art Today: Figures.

2007

UCRCA University Research Grant.Nominated for OEA (Omaha Entertainment & Arts) for Best 2D Artist.
2006

Artistic Achievement 3rd Place, National Small Oil Painting Exhibition.

2005

UCR University Research Grant Mini Grant.
Nominated by 2 students for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.

2003

Fulbright Scholar Award, Lithuania, Lecture/Research, spring term 2004.
1998

UCR University Research Grant.
1993

Texas Art Celebration 3rd place.

1992

The Helen Lakin Trueheart Award, a visual arts grant from the National League of American PEN Women.

1989 –90
Recipient of Gift of Art Billboard Competition sponsored by Patrick Media of Arlington, TX.

1988

Billboard rotated with 3 others at various locations in the Dallas area for one year.

1981

Claude M. Vance Memorial Award, Texas Christian University.

1979-81

Purchase award, Mountainview College.
1979

Teaching Fellowship, North Texas State University.

1972-76
Voertman Purchase Award, University of North Texas.

1972-74

Dean’s List, University of Illinois. James Scholar, University of Illinois.

Select Publications/Media/Catalogs

2020 Expansive Small Works Exhibition Catalog
Art Ascent: Art and Literature Journal “Artists of Water,” October 2019. Online publication.
Art Ascent: Art and Literature Journal “Artists of Beauty,” April 2019. Online publication.

Peripheral Arteries Contemporary Art Review Interview, Online publication, https://issuu.com/artpress/docs/p.arteries_83/58
Michael Krainak “Threshold” The Reader October 1, 2016.
Michael Krainak “Nebraska Rising” The Reader August 1, 2016.
Andrea Kszystyniak “Nebraska Artists Take Over the Bemis” Omaha World Herald August 11, 2016. Force of Nature Exhibition Catalog 2015.
Art Ascent: Art and Literature Journal Reproduced, June 2015, Volume 13.
On Being Human Exhibition Catalog 2011.
Les Femmes Folles Blog No. 2 of 7 2011.
Pinnacle National Juried Exhibition Exhibition Catalog 2010.
Photo ’11 Exhibition Catalog 2011.
Visual Narrative Exhibition Catalog 2010.
John Pitcher “Look Close: Black Madonna Images are Sophisticated Collages” Omaha World Herald, Feb 11, 2010.
Jasmie Maharisi “Matadors and Madonnas” The Reader February 16, 2010.
Small Works: Harper College 31st Annual National Art Exhibition Exhibiion Catalog 2009. Bridging Cultures Through Art: A Fulbright Alumni Art Exhibition 2007 Exhibition Catalog. Candi Puren “Gallery View” One Magazine December, 2006.
Nebraska Artist-Barbara Simcoe KYNE-TV, first aired December 2006 with multiple subsequent airings.
Mike Krainak “True Lies” City Weekly September 8, 2006.
National Exhibition 2006 Marin Society of Artists 2006.
“Finding the Creative Center in a Holy Place Full of Wonder” UNO Alum Fall 2005.
Ashley Hassebroek “Baltic Inspired Art on Display in Lincoln” Omaha World-Herald (Art
and Travel, p. 2) July 18, 2004.
“Faculty in First Person” UNO Alum Fall 2004.
Allison Alfonso “Horizons Expand in Complexity of Good Visual Art” The Johnson City Press
Tempo Arts, p.3) September 28, 2003.
The Florida International Combined Talents 2003 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, catalog, 2003.
Daughters WCA (Women’s Caucus for Art), catalog, 2002.
Leslie Prisbell “Picks of the Week” The Reader (p. 38) October 9, 2002.
Sam Blackwell “Artifacts” Southeast Missourian (Arts & Leisure, p. 1) April. 2002.
Combined Talents 2000 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, catalog, 2000.
“Culture of Cyberspace” New Observations Reproductions of paintings on inside cover and page 10.Winter 1999.
Kyle McMillan “UNO Faculty Displays Flexibility and Vitality” Sunday World-Herald (Entertainment Supplement) February 29, 1999.
20×500: Views from a Dallas Warehouse 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, catalog, 1998.

Gary Demuth “Old & New” The Salina Journal (Section D, p.1) November 14, 1997. 19th Annual Jurored Art Exhibition Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, catalog, 1997. Myth America Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, MI, catalog, 1997.
Al Harris “Barbara Simcoe” Art Papers Volume 17, No. 6 (p.60) Nov. & Dec. 1993. Contemporary American Artists Gaál Imre Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, catalog, 1994. Texas Biennial Exhibition catalog, 1993.Janet Kutner “Daringly Different Show” Dallas Morning News (Section C, p.1-2) November 26, 1993.
Janet Kutner “A Show of Their Own” Dallas Morning News (Section C, p.1-2) September 18, 1993. Dee Mitchell “A Contrast in Art and Artists” Dallas Morning News (Section C, p.1-2) June 18, 1993. Patricia Johnson “Views from Texas” Houston Chronicle (Section E, p.1 and p.3) February 18, 1993. Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Competition Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN, catalog, 1992.Janet Kutner “Tension Release” Dallas Morning News (Section C, p.1 & p.8) March 11, 1990. Charles Dee Mitchell “The Colors of the Mind” Dallas Observer (p.21 & p.42) March 1, 1990.
Lee Murray “Barbara Simcoe” Artbreath on Cable Access of Dallas; a 20 minute video, first broadcast Dec.25, 1989 with multiple rebroadcasts.
Sophia Dembling “Road Crew” Dallas Morning News (Section C, p.1-3) Nov. 18, 1989.
Alan Sondheim “Taking Back What We Give Away So Freely” Dallas Arts Review No. 29 pp.11-13) 1989.
Johanna Drucker “(In)Appropriation” Dallas Arts Review No. 28 (pp.22-23) 1988.
Fort Worth Star Telegram November 4, 1988, reproduced on cover of Weekend Guide.
Anne Jarmusch “Artists Comment in Language of Vision” Dallas Times Herald (Living Section, p.1 & p.3) July 19, 1988.
Art Quest ‘86/The Catalog Reproduced, 1986.
ARTWEEK Fall 1985, Reproduced.CollectionsUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center Museum of Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX. Creighton University
University of North Texas
Numerous private collections

Collections
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Museum of Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX.
Creighton University
University of North Texas
Numerous private collections

Select Professional Activities

2017

Heritage-Response-Art-Identity: Attempting a Dialogue in Central Europe. Conference Paper in Kracow, Poland.Auction Participant Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

2016

Auction Participant Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

2016

Portfolio Review for highschool students, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.

2015

Auction Participant Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.
2015

Portfolio Review for highschool students, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.
2014-17

Mentor for the Kent Bellows Studio and Center for the Visual Arts.
2015

Draw-a-Thon drawing workshop for highschool students, Joslyn Art Museum.
2011

2nd Annual Conference on the Image Conference presenter paper in San Sebastian, Spain.

2011 Juror Scholastic Art Awards for Nebraska Public Schools.
2010

Auction participant Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

Member of Consultation panel for Ford Birthsite Community Garden, Omaha, NE.

2009

Presentation for 3rd Thursdays, Joslyn Art Museum.

Auction participant Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE.

Auction participant CIVA National Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

2008

Juror of Creighton University Student Art Exhibiton.
2007

Delivered 2 lectures at the Pedagogical Institute of Krakow, Poland: the first on my work as anartist and specifically the work in the exhibition in Krakow; the second on contemporary artpractice.
2006

Juror for Plein Air Painting Competition at the Corning Center for the Arts, Corning, IA.

“Healing and its Relationship to the Depiction of Illness” from the Saving Faces LectureSeries, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Organized, moderated and presented.
2005

One of 5 jurors for the “Get to It!” Public Art Project in Omaha
2004

Delivered a paper “Contemporary Art at the Time of Joining the European Union” at the 2004 European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE.

Presented “Pilgrimage” a lecture about the art work I created as a Fulbright Scholar in Lithuania.

2003

One of 3 Jurors of Nebraska Scholastic Art Awards.
2002

Juror of UNL Art League Exhibition, Lincoln, NE.

Panel member, The Figure Revisited at 2002 MACAA biannual conference.

Juror of Drawing III International for Period Gallery, Omaha, NE.
Juried the 2002 Joslyn Art Museum Association Student Art Exhibition.

2001

Presented 2 slide lectures at Wayne State College. One featured my working methods that utilize Photoshop as a tool to design pictorial imagery. The second was a slide lecture about the development of my work.

Participated in 2 artists auctions at the Bemis Center for Contemporary art, CHARity and Art Auction 2001.

Was one of three jurors for the first annual student art exhibition at Metro Community College.

Exhibition took place at 13th Street Gallery, Omaha. NE.
1999-01

Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art, Board Member: Newsletter Committee.
2000

Presented a Photoshop workshop for annual NATA (Nebraska Art Teachers Association)conference.

Juried Drawing 2000, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE.
Donated two digital prints for an auction for the Children’s House at Riverdell School in Brooklyn, NY.

1999

Guest speaker for Fall meeting of the Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art.
1997

Slide lecture at University of Nebraska at Omaha.
1995

Presented Innovation Process, for an ATT regional managers’ conference, Dallas TX.

The seminar involved presenting art history as a history of innovation and the practice of drawing as a means to learning how to alter perception and thinking.
Slide lecture at University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Slide lecture at MAC, McKinney Avenue Contemporary. Dallas, TX.

1992-93

The Texas Biennial Executive Committee, Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities: was one of three member committee which originated, designed and executed the first Texas Biennial Exhibition which took place in Dallas, Texas, November 1993, co- sponsored by DARE, Dallas Artists’ Research and Exhibition. The exhibition was a statewide juried show with four curators from around the state who selected 80 artists from a pool of 365 artists who entered.

1993

Guest lecturer at the Dallas Museum of Art An Artist Speaks summer series.
Juror for the Fort Worth Chapter of Composers, Authors and Artists of America Annual Art Competition.

Professional Memberships

WCA
Fulbright Association