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Hi <3! My name is Lola Simon and I am an artist and writer from Brooklyn, NY.  I work primarily in painting, drawing, and video installation. My art has been shown in numerous venues including the RISD Museum in Providence, RI; the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts in Providence, RI; the Ace Hotel in New York City; and the Noguchi Museum in New York City. I currently live in Kyoto.


I am available for any and all freelance work. Contact me below:

︎ Lolabesssimon@gmail.com
︎ Lola.movie

Selected Exhibitions
Solo
Sportstar,
List Art Center, Providence, RI May 2024 
Simulation Swarm, List Art Center, Providence, RI November - December 2022

Group
Izumi in Frame, Vox in Frame Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 2025
Artistic Muscles, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2024
Re:Pattern, RISD Museum, Providence RI 2024
In the Palm of Our Hands, List Art Center, Providence, RI 2023
Rising Senior Show, List Art Center, Providence, RI 2023
Open Call, Brown University Granoff Center, 2022
Brown University 42nd Student Juried Exhibition, Juried by Wendy Edwards and Jordan Seaberry, Providence, RI 2022 (Third place award)
Spiritual Objects, Brown-RISD Hillel, Providence, RI 2022
Unfolding Light, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2021
Search Party (a scavenger hunt art show), Ace Hotel New York, NY 2019
Making Your Mark, Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY 2019


Selected Publications
Writing
“Save Yoshida”:  The Uncertain Fate of Japan's Oldest Dormitory (College Hill Independent, 2023)
The Farmer's Daughter: Horror on the farm in Ti West’s X and Pearl (College Hill Independent, 2022)
I Love My AI Robot (College Hill Independent, 2022)
On Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and finding companionship with an online chatbot named Digital Girl

Art 
<3, Currents Magazine, Issue X, 2024
Featured cover, College Hill Independent, V46 Issue 6
“Lunchtime”, College Hill Independent
The Round Magazine, Issue XXIII