Taryn Simon
Multidisciplinary Artist
Taryn Simon
Multidisciplinary Artist
Taryn Simon is a multidisciplinary artist whose projects make use of photography, sculpture, text, sound and performance, and center on storytelling, secrecy, and the hidden contours of power. Her multi-year projects are informed by research with institutions such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the International Commission on Missing Persons, and the Fine Arts Commission of the CIA. Her work is held in collections internationally including the Guggenheim in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
She collaborated with the Innocence Project producing The Innocents with the support of a photography fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. First published in 2003 and exhibited at MoMA PS1 that same year, The Innocents features photographs of 46 exonerees at sites that came to assume particular significance following their wrongful conviction. A new edition of The Innocents was released in conjunction with the Innocence Project’s 30th anniversary in 2021, and features an essay by the Innocence Project co-Founders Peter J. Neufeld and Barry C. Scheck.
“The Innocence Project's work has again and again exposed and instigated legislative reform to address systemic defects in the nation’s criminal legal system. As a champion of the Innocence Project’s remarkable 30-plus years of groundbreaking criminal legal reform, I am honored to serve as an Ambassador. In Solidarity.”
