Kristy Simmons
Kristy Simmons
Artist
Artist Kristy Simmons received her Bachelors of Art at the University of California - Santa Cruz. While studying at UCSC, she received both the Dean's and Chancellor's Awards as well as an Irwin Scholarship for artistic merit. Her junior year she traveled abroad to study art in Italy. There she explored firsthand the Italian masters which gave influence to her work.
She has exhibited extensively throughout the country. Her work has been selected for numerous exhibitions in Maryland, Virginia and California, as well as in Boston and Chicago. She has exhibited at 57 N Street in Washington, D.C., Artspace in Richmond, Virginia, and at the Rotunda Gallery of the Museum of Natural History, the Hemicycle Gallery in the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
She has been selected for exhibitions by many esteemed curators, including Jack Cowart, former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, JoAnne Moser, Curator of Graphic Arts at The National Museum of American Art and J.W. Mahoney, Washington Art Correspondent for Art in America.
Kristy’s art has been featured in the media in segments on NBC News, ABC News and the Montgomery Cable Channel as well as in The Washington Post, The Montgomery Journal and The Baltimore Sun.
Presently, she lives in Bethesda, Maryland, where she maintains her studio.
Visit her Beautiful Flower Website.