JOHN F. SIMON, JR. |
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| Born 1963, Louisiana Lives and works in New York Email: jfsjr@numeral.com Print Version |
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| SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2016 |
Endlessly Expanding, Sandra Gering Inc., New York, NY Endlessly Expanding (Large Scale Works), Racine Berkow Associates, Long Island City, NY DATAStream: John F. Simon, Jr., Moss Arts Center, VA Well Planned Improvisations, Mindy Ross Gallery SUNY, NY |
| 2015 | The Ever Present Sun, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY |
| 2013-4 |
Moment of Escape, Sandra Gering Inc, New York, NY Intersections, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
| 2012 | Digital Paintings, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA |
| 2010 |
Innerhole, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY Riverrun, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy Hybrid Media: John F. Simon & Mathew Kluber, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA Streaming Museum: The Poetics of Code: John F Simon, Jr. and Eduardo Kac, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY |
| 2009 |
John F. Simon, Jr., Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| 2008 |
Color & Time, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain |
| 2007 |
Winds Across the Inner Sea, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY John F. Simon Jr., & Mark Napier, Digital Art Museum, Gallery [DAM], Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 |
Nonlinear Landscapes, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2005 |
Stacks, Loops, and Intersections: Code Sketches by John F. Simon, Jr., University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY John F. Simon Jr., Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA Endless Victory, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2004 |
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN |
| 2002 |
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Channels, permanent installation, The College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA New Instructions, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA |
| 2001 |
Systematic Drawing: Janet Cohen and John F. Simon, Jr., The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Complicated Boundaries, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, a project of Creative Capital |
| 2000 | ComplexCity, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York |
| 1999 |
CPU, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | 2016 |
Art as Information: Maps, Plans and Diagrams, Kennedy Museum of Art, OH 30th Year Distinguished Alumni Exhibition, SVA's Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY Tech-né-Color, Sandra Gering Inc, NYC AftermodernisM, Neumann Wolfson Art at Nicole Ripka Gallery, Watermill, NY |
2015 |
Contemporary Art Projects at the Phillips, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, Australia |
| 2014 | //the_ART_of_DATA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO |
| 2013 | Vicious Circles, Steven Vail Fine Arts, Des Moines, IA |
| 2012 |
San Antonio Collects: Contemporary, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Colliding Complexities: Extreme Feast of the New York – New Aesthetic, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY The Experience Machine, Ikkan Art International, Singapore |
| 2011 |
Videosphere: A New Generation, The Albright Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, NY Blink!, Denver Art Museum; Denver, CO Experience Space, Gallery [DAM] Berlin, Germany Time and Place, Kunsthalle Detroit, MI |
| 2010 |
01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA The Poetics of Code: John F. Simon Jr. and Eduardo Kac, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY The Incomplete, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France Small, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, South Korea Traffic Art 2010, Sequence, Quebec, Canada Digital Art @ Google: Data Poetics, The Project Room for New Media, New York, NY |
| 2008 |
Holy Fire art of the digital age, iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2007 |
The Incomplete, Chelsea Museum of Art, New York, NY Ingenuity Festival, work Presented by MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH Art Under Glass, Macy's, Harold's Square, New York, NY |
| 2006 |
Art Under Glass: The Synergy of Art and Fashion, Macy's, Harold's Square, New York, NY {Grid <> Matrix}, Mildrid Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri All Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH |
| 2005 |
Techno/Sublime, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO ElectroScape, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China Metamorfosis, Museo Extremeno e Iber oamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain |
| 2004 |
Seeing Double: Emulations in Theory and Practice, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Deluth; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ; University Museums, University of Richmond, VA. Paintings That Paint Themsleves Or So It Seems, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan New York Show, Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, LA RuntimeArt, Mi2 Exhibition Space, Zagreb, Yugoslavia Digital Sublime - New Masters of the Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, SVA, New York, curated by Jerry Saltz |
| 2003-4 |
Flower Power, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France |
| 2003 |
ArtApparatus, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York Split, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York Dirty Pixels Show, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| 2002 |
media_city seoul 2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA Techne, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Looking Back at Looking Forward: The Aldrich Museum's Emerging Artists Awards 1997 - 2001, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Complexity, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY 2002 Media Art Dae Jeon - New York: Special Effects, Dae Jeon Municipal Museum of Art, Korea Electrohype 2002 Biennial, Malmo, Sweden Optical Optimism, Gallery Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA Math-Art/Art-Math, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL |
| 2001 |
BitStreams, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Glee: Painting Now, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL Selections from the Permanent Collection, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Perfect 10: Ten Years in Soho, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York Locating Drawing, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX TranspolyBlu, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO |
| 2000 |
2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York An Art of Pure Form, works from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York State Museum, Albany, NY Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT End Papers: 1890-1900 and 1990-2000, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY City of Lights: Art Walk, Boutique Caron, New York, organized by Downtown Arts Projects 2000 Años Luz, Centro de Arte La Recova, Tenerife, Canary Islands Scanner, CCAC Institute, San Francisco Mapping, territory, connections, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris DEAF, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival sponsored by V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1999 |
Cyber Cypher Either End, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston |
| 1998 |
Formulations, Sandra Gering Gallery, group show with Sol LeWitt and Hanne Darboven, curated by Timothy Druckrey, New York |
| 1997 |
Mac Classics Group Show, Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| SPECIAL PROJECTS and COMMISSIONS | |
| 2012 | Mutual Core, Biophilia, a software project collaboration with Bjork |
| 2010 | HD Traffic, various cities, US, Europe, Asia |
| 2005 | Mobility Agents, artist's book and cd published by Printed Matter, Inc., and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 2002 |
Channels, permanent installation, The College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Business in the Arts Award, commissioned artwork, Business Committee for the Arts |
| 2001 |
Unfolding Object, Commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum for Guggenheim.org |
| WEB PROJECTS and EXHIBITIONS | |
| 1998 | Beyond Interface, web site exhibition, juried show, Steve Deitz, chair |
| 1997 |
Color Balance, Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, web site installation, www.bobsart.com Every Icon, Stadium Online Gallery, curated by Ron Wakkary, www.stadiumweb.com, New York HOMEPORT, Leo Castelli Gallery, Palace Project with Lawrence Weiner and adaweb, www.adaweb.com Combinations, Sandra Gering Gallery, www.geringgallery.com, New York |
| 1996 |
Words Link, Slate Magazine Gallery, www.slate.com Space of Information – Archive Mapper, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center, group show curated by Laura Trippi, www.adaweb.com/~dn/a, Canada Saver, Java based web project with Cheryl Donegan, www.geringgallery.com We Both Belong, web project with Ben Kinmont and ada web, www.adaweb.com The Web’s Most Wanted Painting, Dia Center for the Arts, web project with Komar and Melamid |
| 1995 |
Alter Stats – Condition of the Web Observer, Sandra Gering Gallery, web project and installation of associateddrawings, www.geringgallery.com, and New York; web project also installed at The Thing at Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Jenny Holzer – Please Change Belief, web project with Jenny Holzer and ada web, www.adaweb.com |
| 1994 |
Line Drawings, The Thing Bulletin Board, online gallery, www.thing.net |
| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO University of Iowa Museum of Art, IA Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS The Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Deluth, MN Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, Greenville, OH The Print Collection of the New York Public Library, New York, NY The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH Zurich Capital Markets, New York, NY The College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Museo Extremeo e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporneo, Badajoz, Spain Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| SELECTED LECTURES, PANELS, VIDEO, RADIO | |
| 2015 |
From the Opening Night of Intersections @5, by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. |
| 2014 |
Drawing the Path, Buddhist Geeks Lecture, Boulder, CO |
| 2013 |
Intersections, by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. The Artistic Path is the Crooked Path, Interview by Vincent Horn for Buddhist Geeks |
| 2008 |
Studio Visit, by Pluto, NY |
| 2004 |
Collecting the Uncollectable, Guggenheim Museum, panel discussion moderated by Jon Ippolito, 9 April, New York Art and Technology: Interviews with Sound and Video Artists, edition 3, www.wps1.org |
| 2002 |
Galerie Simonne Stern, panel discussion moderated by Lawrence Rinder concurrent with Optical Optimisim exhibition, 14 September, New Orleans, LA SITE Santa Fe, conversation with James Crutchfield of the Santa Fe Institute, 24 August, Santa Fe, NM Coding as Creative Writing, Guggenheim Museum, lecture, 15 May, New York |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS | |
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American Visionaries, Selections From the Whitney Museum of American Art, Introduced by Maxwell L. Anderson, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001, p283 Blais, Joline, and Ippolito, Jon, At The Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London 2006, p19 Tribe, Mark, Jana, Reena, New Media Art, Taschen GmbH, Koln, 2006, p 86 - 87 Maeda, John, Creative Code, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1999, p46-47 Wands, Bruce, Art of the Digital Age, Thames & Hudson Ltd., New York, 2006 p 4, 29, 164, 170, 171 Rush, Michael, New Media in Late 20th-Century Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd., 1999, p 193-194 Valery, Paul, Luis Brea, Jose, Dietz, Steve, la Conquista De La Ubicuidad, Centro Parraga, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2003, p 130-131 Stallabrass, Julian, Internet Art The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London, 2003, p135 Paul, Christiane, Digital Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 2003, p69 ed Mitchell, William J., Inouye, Alan S., Blumenthal, Marjory S., Beyond Productivity Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity, National Academy Press, Washington D.D., 2003, National Research Council of the National Academies, p 38 Baumgartel,, Tilman, [net.art 2.0] New Materials Towards Net Art, Verlag Fur moderne Kunstg Nurnberg, der Autor und die Kunstlerlnnen, Germany, 2001, p96-105 Bild-Medium-Kunst, hrsg. von yvonne Spielmann und Gundolf Winter unter Miratbeit von Christian Spies. -- Munchen : Fink, 1999, p274-276, 284 GoTop, Digital Art Creation, E&T, 2006, p25, 168, 266 |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ARTICLES | |
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Turner, Kiki, “John F. Simon, Jr.”, ARTnews, January, 2014 Morgan, Robert C., “John F. Simon, Jr. at Sandra Gering Gallery”, World Sculpture News, Spring 2014 Yuan, Xiaoying Juliette, “The Artist’s Creative Process: John F. Simon, Jr.”, streamingmuseum.com, 2014 McCarthy, Michael, “Simon Says: Outside the Lines”, Modern Luxury DC, December 1, 2013 Miller, Robin. “Simon Goes Digital To Create His Ever-Changing Images.” The Advocate, September 2012 Moreno-Bunge, Sophia. “Spotlight on John F. Simon, Jr.’s ‘innerhole’, NYC.” The Huffington Post, October, 2010 “Gering & López Gallery; John F. Simon, ‘Innerhole’.” Time Out, New York, September 2010 Baumgartel, Tilman. “Art that does what it says: Interview with John F. Simon, Jr.” n.d. Rizzo, Renato. "Il profeta della software art." La Stampa, Torino, March 6, 2010. Drake, Cathryn. "John F. Simon Jr.: Collezione Maramotti." Artforum. Summer 2009. Quaranta, Domenico. "John F. Simon, Jr." Flash Art, May 2009. Olson, Marisa, “The Nostradamus of New Media?”, Rhizome, 16 March 2009 Caines, Marcia. “’Outside In’ – Interview with John F. Simon Jr.” Cluster, 10 March 2009 Luppi, Stefano. “Bit generation.” Il Giornale dell’Arte, March 2009 Franci, Francesco, “Outside In/ Ten Years of Software Art.”, Abitare, 23 February, 2009 Bonami, Francesco. "Attenti alla software art." Vanity Fair, March 2009 "Maramotti e John Simon." Arte, March 2009. Princenthal, Nancy, “John Simon Jr. at Gering & Lopez”, Art in America, April 2008 Robinson, Walter, “John F. Simon, Jr.”, Artnet Magazine, March 10. 2008 Pollack, Barbara, “John F. Simon Jr.: Winds Across the Inner Sea,” Time Out New York,October 25, 2007 “Goings On About Town: John F. Simon Jr.,” The New Yorker, October 23, 2007 Greben, Deirdre Stein and John F. Simon Jr., “How Bloopers Become Breakthroughs,” ARTnews, November 2006, p. 174 Kino, Carol, “Teaming With the Artists To Buoy the Bottom Line,” The New York Times, 29 March 2006 Litt, Steven, “Digital show both new and familiar,” The Plain Dealer, 2 February 2006 Tranberg, Dan, “Digital artist writes own code for endlessly changing images,” The Plain Dealer, February 2006 Boxer, Sarah, “Web Works That Insist On Your Full Attention,” The New York Times, 28 June 2005 Lambert, Emily, “Binary Art,” Forbes Magazine, 12 January 2004, p.210 Yablonsky, Linda, “Art/Architecture; To Replace Paint and Page, Artists Try Pixel Power,” The New York Times, 17 August 2003 Pollack, Barbara, “John F. Simon Jr. at Sandra Gering,” Art in America, January 2003 Berwick, Carly, “Net Gains,” ARTnews, December 2002 Kenyon, John, “Wall-to-Wall Art,” Iowa City Gazette, 10 October 2002, p.1B, p.5B Smith, Roberta, “A Profusion of Painting”, The New York Times, 10 May 2002 Simon, John F., Jr., “Smock (Off the Wall)”, artist's project for Smock Magazine, Winter 2002 Mirapaul, Mathew, “Getting Tangible Dollars for an Intangible Creation”, The New York Times, 18 February 2002 Ippolito, Jon, “The Unknowable Object: John Simon's Unfolding Object”, www.guggenheim.org, Spring 2002 Nappi, Maureen A., “Language, Memory and Volition: Toward an Aesthetics of Computer Arts”, Doctoral dissertation, 2002 Atkins, Robert, “True to His Code”, Artbyte, July/August 2001, vol.4, no. 2, p.39-43 Delson, Susan, “If Picasso Were a Programmer”, Forbes.com, 25 June 2001 Pollack, Barbara, “Simon Sells”, Art & Auction, June 2001, p.79 Rossbach, Janet B., “John F. Simon, Jr.: Computer Art as Fine Art”, Visual Arts Journal, Spring 2001 Rosenbaum, Lee, “Tech Art: Boom or Bust?”, The Wall Street Journal, 6 April 2001, p.W14 Berwick, Carly, “The New New-Media Blitz”, ARTnews, April 2001, pp.112-116 Kimmelman, Michael, “’BitStreams’ and ‘Data Dynamics’: Creativity, Digitally Remastered”, The New York Times, March 23, 2001, p.E31 Bodow, Steve, “The Whitney’s Digital Sampler”, New York Magazine, March 26, 2001, pp.72-77 Jana, Reena, “Restoring the Sistine Website”, www.wired.com, March 22, 2001 Anton, Saul, “Net Gains: A Roundtable on New-Media Art,” a roundtable led by Saul Anton, Artforum, March 2001, pp.118-125 Sonkin, Rebecca, “Icons of the Small Screen”, ARTnews, March 2001, p.50 Daniel, Jeff, “Digital exhibition taps into many media and traditions”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, February 11, 2001 Breslin, Ramsay Bell, “Under the Digital Sun”, Eastbay Express, December 1, 2000 Madoff, Steven Henry, “Is This the Museum of the Future?”, Talk Magazine, March 2001, pp.132-37 Simon, John F., Jr., “Hot List,” Artforum, February 2001. Rush, Michael, “New Media Rampant”, Art in America, July 2000, p.43 Korotkin, Joyce, “Review: John F. Simon, Jr. at Sandra Gering”, The New York Art World, May 2000, p.9 Pollock, Barbara, “On the Edge: Digital Evolution.”, ArtNews, April 2000, p.142 Princenthal, Nancy, “John Tremblay and John F. Simon, Jr. at Sandra Gering”, Art in America, April 2000, pp.154-55 Hamilton, Anita, “Clicking on the Canvas: A new exhibit of Net art is good, strange fun”, Time Magazine, April 10, 2000, p.129 Miller-Keller, Andrea, “Varieties of Influence: Sol LeWitt and the Arts Community”, Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000, p.76 Kleiner, Carolyn, “What’s the Whitney’s newest new thing?”, US News & World Report, March 27, 2000, p.52 Puente, Maria, “Pixel this: A museum exhibit with Web-only art”, USA Today, March 23, 2000, p.D1 Jana, Reena, “Whitney Speaks: It Is Art”, Wired News Online, March 23, 2000, Brandabur, Susan, “Internet Art Takes Off”, auctionwatch.com, March 17, 2000 Rush, Michael, New Media in Late 20th Century Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1999, p193-194 Weinbren, Grahame, “The PC is a Penguin,” essay in Bild-Medium-Kunst, edited by Yvonne Spielman and Gundolf Winter, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 1999, pp.274-77 Greene, Rachel, "eBay Watch", Artforum, November, 1999, p.53. Atkins, Robert, “State of the (On-line) Art,” Art in America, April 1999, pp.89-95. Ippolito, Jon, “Cross Talk: Intellectual Property or Intellectual Polity?”, Artbyte, August/September 1998, vol. 1, no. 3, p.19 Ippolito, Jon, “Given: The Universe Shown: Every Artwork”, Deep Storage, exhibition catalogue from P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Prestel-Verlag, Munich/New York, 1998, pp.160-62 Druckrey, Timothy, “Work and Display,” Art Forum, November 1997, p.18 Mirapaul, Matt, “In John Simon’s Work Everything is Possible,” The New York Times online, Arts@Large Column, 17 April 1997 Pollack, Barbara, “Collecting On-Line: A Leap of Faith,” ArtNews, March 1997, p.65 Freyermuth, Von Gundolf S., “Kunst der Korperlosen,” Spiegel Special 3, 1997, pp.132-37 Simon, John F. Jr., “Alter Stats,” Parachute Magazine, January 1997, #85 “Arts Projects: “Alter Stats”,” Intelligent Agent, September 1996, vol.1, no.5 Rosati, Pavia, “http://www.headline.net/art,” World Art, 1995, vol.4, pp.54-57 Atkins, Robert, “The Art World & I Go On Line,” Art in America, December 1995, p.58-65 Simon, John F. Jr., “Building Process,” Millennium Film Journal, Winter 1994, No.27, pp.37-45 Simon, John F. Jr., “Are PC’s PC?,” 10.8 Magazine, Vol.2, No.2, 1991 |
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| AWARDS | |
| 2000 |
Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist, The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
| 1999 |
Creative Capital New Media Grant |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1989 |
MFA, Computer Art, School of Visual Arts, New York |
| 1987 |
MA, Earth and Planetary Science, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| 1985 |
BA, Art (Studio), Brown University, Providence, RI BS, Geology, Brown University, Providence, RI |