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www.simparch.org

Steven Badgett

1958 W. Walnut St.

Chicago, IL 60612

773 301-9225

stevebadgett@gmail.com

born Illinois 1962

1985 BFA University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Matt Lynch

1328 Pullan Ave.

Cincinnati, OH 45223

513 382-4173

matthew.lynch@uc.edu

born Indiana 1969

1995 MFA Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1992 BFA Ball State University, Muncie, IN

Exhibitions

2009 exhausted Open Satellite, Bellevue, WA

Sylvis Capitalis Kielder Forest, Northumberland, England

Grand Respectacle, Tex Hex Water Unit event and houseboat project in collaboration with The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Houston TX

2008 Wigloo with Chris Vorhees, North American Art Dealers Association Art Fair, Miami FL

Heartland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

The Marfa Sessions: Sounds Across Town with Steve Rowell. Marfa Ballroom

Out There: Architecture Beyond Building Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy

Home Office (with Chris Vorhees), commission for Country Club Gallery, Cincinnati, shown in Next Art Fair, Chicago

The Last Supper collaboration with Chris Vorhees, Publico, Cincinnati, OH

Homecoming Artworks Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2007 drum ‘n’ basin Greenland Street, A Foundation, Liverpool, England

Once Upon a Time in the Midwest, collaboration with SANDBOX Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati

School of Art Faculty Show, Reed Gallery University of Cincinnati

Hydromancy with Steve Rowell, Rubin Center Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso

2006 Gloom and Doom with Steve Rowell, Contemporary Arts Center/Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, Dual location exhibition

Shock and Awe with Steve Rowell, Year_06, London Art Fair, Mary Ward House

Negotiated Localities, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago Art Institute

2005 Dirty Water Initiative, InSITE, San Diego, USA/Tijuana, Mexico

Hot House, Tate Modern Untitled Gallery, London, England

2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Free Basin, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

2003 Clean Livin’, Permanent installation for Center for Land Use Interpretation. Wendover, UT

Speculative Chicago, A Compendium of Architectural Innovation Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago

2002 Session the Bowl. Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany, Free Basin and Spec

Mood River Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH.

2001 Spec An Acoustic Collaboration between SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm., The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago

2000 Free Basin Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL.

1999 The Unit, Permanent installation for Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT

1998 Ship from the Desert, The Moorings Project, Maschinenhalle, Potsdam Germany

SIMPARCH, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
L’Arche, Ecole Nationale d’Art, Cergy, France
It Is What It Is, Mesilla, NM

1997 Rise Overrun, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, NM
An Investigation of Trans-Architecture in the Western American Highwayscape, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
New Mexico Arts, Sight-specific work, Anthony, NM

1996 1996 Sculpture Project, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Sculpture in the Age of Plastics, Mesilla Park, NM

AleRT 1996, Offsite, Santa Fe, NM

Close to the Border, New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Juried by Thomas Sokolowsky, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum

Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX
Just Lookin’ is Just Fine, Mesilla, NM

Visiting Artist Lectures

2009 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, in conjunction with Open Satellite, Bellevue, WA

Oberlin College, lecture and 1 week project with Students "Teepeezoid"

University of Cincinnati, School of Architecture and Interior Design

2008 State University of New York at Albany

2007 University of Houston

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Mississippi State University

University of Texas at El Paso

2006 Sci-Arc, Los Angeles, California

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Transylvania University, Lexington, KY

2005 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2004 University of California, San Diego, CA

Rural Studio, Auburn University, Newbern AL

Columbia College, Chicago, IL

University of Illinois, Chicago (lecture and workshop)

2002 Documenta XI, education program, Kassel, Germany

2001 Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
1999 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1997 Weber State University, Ogden, UT

Artist Residencies

2004-5 inSITE_05, Exhibition development includes a series of week residencies,

Tijuana, Mexico

2003,1999 The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
6 week residency at the Center’s site in Wendover, UT

1998 Brandenberischer Kunsterein, Potsdam, E.V. Potsdam,

Germany: 1 month project, co-sponsored by Plan B Evolving

Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Grants

2007 Illinois Arts Council

2006 Ohio Arts Council, Excellence Award

2002,2004 Creative Capital Foundation, Project Grant
1997 New Mexico Arts, Public art project grant, Anthony, NM

Selected Bibliography

2009 On the Banks of Bayou City. The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston. (illustration and brief description)

"Houston Report from the Center's Gulf State's Field Office". The Lay of The Land, Center for Land Use Interpretation (photographs)

2007 Borden, Iain. “What is a Thing?”. (essay) The A Foundation Bulletin. Fall 2007

SIMPARCH: Hydromancy. (Exhibition Catalog) University of Texas Press ) with essay by Ben Nicholson (photographs)

Curran, Gez. “SIMPARCH, Drum and Basin”. Document (skate magazine) Dec. 2007 (photographs, including cover)

2006 Weintraub, Linda. EnvironMentalities: Twentey-Two Approaches to Eco Art. Artnow publications (photographs)

Gabrys, Jennifer. essay. Surface Tension Supplement No.1 2006

Chasin, Noah. “This is Punk Rock Architecture”. Art Review July 2006: 47-49 (photographs)

Spaid, Sue. “SIMPARCH”. ArtUS: October-November 2006:62 (photographs)

Kaizaad Kotwal. “Exhibition Has Context of Conflict”. The Columbus Dispatch, August 27, 2006

2005 Harris, Mark. “Interview with SIMPARCH”. Miser and Now. #5:76 (photographs)

2004 Mittleman, Paul. “Being-in-the-Pool”. Yard. Fall 2004:28 (photographs, cover)

Arkitip #24, limited edition publication. SIMPARCH feature

Ullrich, Polly. “SIMPARCH’s Social Sculpture at Wendover Air Force Base”. Sculpture, May 2004 (photographs)

Hartlaub, Peter. "No worries about being ejected from 'free basin,' a show where grinding and thrashing is a must". San Francisco Chronicle. Thursday, August 5, 2004 (photographs)

2003 Weyland, Jocko. “Bowled over, Skate punks catch the wooden wave at Deitch Projects”. Time Out, New York. Jan 9, 2003

“Session the Bowl (Showstoppers)”. Juxtapoz. July, August 2003:48 (photographs)

Coleman, Cindy. Skate Logic (Centerfold)”. Interior Design. May 2003:232 (photographs)

Blomgren, Lance. “Interview with SIMPARCH”. Matrix. Winter 2003:45 (photographs)

Skruck, Jeff. “SIMPARCH Bowl”. Slap Skateboard Magazine. April 2003 (photograph)

Rosenberg, Karen. “Outside and In”. Village Voice. January 15-21, 2003 (photograph)

Cotter, Holland. “Session the Bowl” (review) The New York Times: B46 (photograph)

Wartofsky, Alona. “Extreme Art: Skateboarders turn Soho Gallery into a Kinetic Performance Piece.” The Washington Post. Feb. 12, 2003 (photograph)

2002 Hall, Peter. “Go with the Flow”. Metropolis Magazine, May 2002

Knight, Christopher. “All Politics, Little Art” The Los Angeles Times. July 7, 2002: 4

Reif, Rita. “A Swimming Pool? A Yacht? No, It’s Art”. The New York Times. March 10, 2002: 23 (photographs)

Obejas, Achy. “For Duo, Documenta is Quite a Ride”. The Chicago Tribune. July 14, 2002

Parr, Debra Riley. “SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm” (Review). New Art Examiner. March-April, 2002: 78 (photograph)

Fredericksen, Eric. “Architecture that Shreds”. Architecture. April 2, 2002: 46 (photographs)

Ferrara, Annette. “Extreme Acts of Building”. Ten By Ten. Spring/Summer 2002: 42-45 (photographs)

Muschamp, Herbert. “Design’s Mood Swings, From Bliss to Rage”. The New York Times. Feb 14, 2002: B1 (photograph)

2001 Artner, Alan G. “Exhibit creates Space for Discreet Music.” Chicago Tribune. October 4, 2001 (photograph)

Grabner, Michelle. “SIMPARCH, Hyde Park Art Center”. Frieze. January/February 2001:112-3 (photograph)

”SIMPARCH and Kevin Drumm: Architecturally Site-Specific Sounds”

Indepth arts news. absolutearts.com. November 2001

2000 Carter, Jeff and Susan Giles. “Global Art, SIMPARCH”. Flash Art. November, December 2000:96 (photograph)

Hixson, Kathryn. Interview, SIMPARCH. New Art Examiner, November 2000:44 (photographs including cover)

Parr, Debra Riley. Review, SIMPARCH. New Art Examiner, November 2000:50 (photograph)

Reviews, Frieze. November/December:119 (uncredited photograph)

”Cars And Furniture: A Contemporary Design Survey”. New Art Examiner, October 2000:23 (photograph)

Postiglone, Corey. “State of the Art—Expanding the Sculptural in
Chicago.” Dialogue, Sept. Oct. 2000:15 (photographs)

Waxman, Lori. “The Art of Skateboarding.” F News-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 2000: 14 (photographs)
Powers, Jay. “SIMPARCH’s Free Basin: A Skater’s Perspective.” F News-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 2000: 15(photographs)

WBEZ Radio, Chicago NPR Affiliate. Report and Interviews with Lia Alexopolous, Steven Badgett, Skateboarder Patrick Melcher,

Chuck Thurow, and Hamza Walker. June 21, 2000

Weirsema, Chris. “Simple Art, Outside the Box with the Boarders of Simparch.” New City. Chicago weekly, June 15, 2000:38 (photograph)
Smith-Lindall, Anders. “On Exhibit: the Hyde Park Art Center Picks Up Speed.” Reader. Chicago weekly, June 2, 2000:39 (photograph)

”Wendover Update: Architects, Writers, and Sound Archivists Work on and Around the C.L.U.I. Compound.” The Lay of the Land, The Center for Land Use Interpretation Newsletter. Summer 2000:3 (photograph)
Allen, Anthony. “Skate-able Art.” Big Brother Skateboarding, October 2000:44 (photographs)
Larson, Tony. Photography by Chris Anderson. “Free Basin, Traditions Carve into Chicago.”  Transworld Skateboarding, October 2000:198 (photographs)
”Bluetorch TV”, aired on Fox Sports, July 3, 2000

1998 Ship from the Desert. (catalog) Hoffman, Christine, Zane Fischer, and Michael Lujan. “The Artists” and “In Conversation.” (interview)  Sept.1998

Park, Mike. “Getting inside the SIMPARCH trailer.” The Reader. Omaha, NE. August 20, 1998: 29 (photograph)

1997 Wilson, Malin. “Spinning Material Metaphors of Redemption.” The Albuquerque Journal North. Oct. 16, 1997: 4 (photograph)
McCloud, Kathleen. “Taking concept of shelter to preposterous edge: Simparch thrives on contradictions.” Pasatiempo, Santa Fe’s Weekly Arts and Entertainment Magazine, The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Sept. 19-25, 1997 (photograph)
Fischer, Zane. “Learning from Las Cruces: A Conversation with Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett of Simparch.” Plan B Evolving Arts Newsletter. Santa Fe, NM September-October, 1997: 6+(photograph)