About Kurt Simonson
Kurt Simonson (b. 1977 in St Paul, Minnesota) is an artist/educator whose work explores the longings and tensions that surround our ideas of home, community, and identity. Questions about family, story, and belonging are at the heart of his curiosity.
Photo by Dustin Gia (www.dustingia.com)
Kurt’s work is regularly exhibited throughout the country and internationally, from the San Diego Museum of Art to the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, and the Foto8 Gallery in London, England. His work has been featured in publications from the London Sunday Times Magazine to American Photo, and he has received awards from Center Santa Fe and Photolucida’s Critical Mass. In 2015 Kurt was named one of LensCulture’s 50 Emerging Talents. His first monograph, Northwoods Journals, was published in 2015 by Flash Powder Projects.
Kurt lives and works in Long Beach, California, where you can probably find him eating breakfast, or roaming around Disneyland between his classes at Scripps College, Loyola Marymount University, and Long Beach City College.