BIO
Troy Simmons (b. 1975, TX) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice
encompasses sculpture, photography, and 3D visualized worlds. He explores color, texture, and
structure to develop a unique visual language, fueled by curiosity that interrogates questions of
identity and habitat. Raised between the urban landscape of Houston and his grandfather’s
hand-built farmhouse in East Texas, Simmons grew up fascinated by natural forms and the structure
of simple dwellings. A self-taught artist since his early teens, Simmons’ creative inclinations
were complemented by his studies of Environmental Science at Sam Houston State University and
Architectural Technology at Oklahoma State University. His research on organic growth, animal
nest-making and the vernacular architecture of ancient cultures allowed him to recognize functional
design as a survival instinct across species, eventually leading to an artistic investigation of
identity as the difference between exterior and interior space.
Simmons’ work has appeared at Art Basel Miami Beach, VOLTA Basel Switzerland, Art Paris, Boca Raton
Museum of Art, Cornell Art Museum and a group show during the 57th Annual Venice Biennale. The
recipient of an Oolite Ellies Creator Award, Simmons has completed residencies at Artpace San
Antonio and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His work is held in private and corporate collections
including Charles Schwab's corporate headquarters in Austin Texas. To date, Simmons has completed
two large scale permanent commissions for public work – a building facade in Miami’s Wynwood
neighborhood commissioned by Goldman Global Development, and an architectural integrated sculpture
titled "Janus Portal" commissioned by Bombardier Inc. at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport
inspired by his 2018 sculpture, Vortex.
EDUCATION
Oklahoma State University- Architecture Technology 2005
Sam Houston State University- Environmental Science 1999-2002
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 SPORE, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami FL
2023 TEXTURES OF HUMANITY, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami FL 2018 VOLTA NEW YORK , NY
2016 REVISITING BRUTALISM, Artium Art, Miami FL
2015 DURCHBRUCH, JanKossen Contemporary, Chelsea NY 2014 GENESIS, Context / Art Miami, Miami FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
FLORIDA PRIZE IN CONTEMPORARY ART | ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART
INTERVALS - City of Coral Gables + Art Basel Miami Beach
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH, Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2023
ART BASEL | MIAMI BEACH, Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2022
ART BASEL | MIAMI BEACH, Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2021
2019
ART PARIS, Paris France
VOLTA BASEL, Basel Switzerland
2018
MONOCHROME, Jankossen Contemporary NY, Chelsea, NY
Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami FL
Cornell Art Museum: Looking Back, Delray Beach FL
2017
Nuovi Orizzonti- BIENNALE ARTE 2017 - 57th Venice Biennale - Jankossen Contemporary, Venice, Italy
Art New York, New York, NY
THE BLUE EDITION: MIAMI, Art Bastion Gallery, Miami FL
2016
SACRED GEOMETRIES, Art Bastion Gallery, Wynwood, FL Locust Projects-Smash and Grab- Miami FL
Art Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL Art New York, New York City, NY
PSYCHEDELIC - JanKossen Contemporary, Chelsea, NY
2015
Cornell Museum - RE-IMAGINED, Delray Beach FL ART PARIS, Paris, France
Locust Projects-Smash and Grab- Miami FL
Art and Cultural Center - 7th Annual ALL Media Biennial, , Hollywood FL
BURST, University of Miami- Wynwood Gallery, Miami
2014
Coral Gables Museum - Urbanism: Perceived and Interpreted, , Coral Gables, FL Boca Museum - All
Florida 63rd Annual Exhibition, Boca Museum Of Contemporary Art , Boca Raton, FL
Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
2013
Context / Art Miami, Miami, FL
Oscar Thomas Foundation’s 15th Annual Keepers of the Dream, Miami, FL
Abstractions, Gallery 101, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2012
Aspire (TV Network) Launch Gala, New York, NY
2011
Art In Empty Spaces II, Artistic Productions, Pompano Beach, FL The Cuban Artist Project, Close
Encounters II, , Miami FL
2010
IMPACT, Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
Art In Empty Space, Artistic Productions, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2009
Untitled, Miami Art Group Gallery, Miami, FL Greener, Art Expressions, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2003
Red River Valley Heritage Art Exhibition, Red River Valley Museum, Vernon, TX (Betty King Write
Award recipient )
2002
You Don’t Know the Half Of It, Main Street Gallery, Huntsville, TX
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2003
RED RIVER VALLEY MUSEUM, Betty King Write Award,
2018
OOLITE ARTS - THE ELLIES AWARD -
2020
ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Oolite Home and Away Residency
ARTPACE SAN ANTONIO - Oolite
Home and Away Residency 2022
COMMISSIONS
Charles Schwab - Austin Texas Corporate Campus
Goldman Global Development - Wynwood 2300 Building - Wynwood-Miami Florida Bombardier Inc. -
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport
BROADCAST
NPR-WLRN Pubic Radio - Biomorphic sculpture at Art Basel poses human, environmental questions 2024
NPR- WLRN Public Radio- Miami Art Week, 2021 The CW South Florida : Miami Art Week, 2017 NBC South
Florida, 6 In The Mix, December, 2015
NPR- WLRN Public Radio, Non Profit Teams up with Local Artist, December 1, 2015 NBC South Florida,
6 In The Mix, December, 2014
Aspire Network TV, Comcast/ Magic Johnson, June, 2012 (commercial -ongoing) ABC-Local 10, “Hot
Happenings”- January 18, 2011
ABC-KOCO, “Downtown Developer- Block 42”-June, 2005
TALKS
2021
SOHO BEACH HOUSE - ART CLUB: What to Expect During Miami Art Week
LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE (LAVC GALLERY) LECTURE SERIES
2020
WHITEWALL (IG Live)- In Conversation- April 2020
2019
DESIGN MIAMI Lexus Art Series: Art & Innovation Talks by Whitewall
2014
Boca Museum - All Florida 63rd Annual
PUBLICATIONS
ARCHITECT Beyond the Surface: When Art and Architecture Unite AVENTURA MAGAZINE Troy Simmons Makes
His Mark on Miami
MODERN LUXURY MIAMI- BASEL EDITION (TEAM EFFORT) - December 2020 CULTURED - Dec-Jan. 2019
WHITE WALL MAGAZINE - Troy Simmons Makes His Mark On Wynwood By Katy Donoghue THE MIAMI RAIL |
Issue 22 – Troy Simmons: Urban Concrete, Human Color
BERLIN JOURNAL | American Academy Fall issue 2016 (cover)
Artnet News, Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Artnet Asks: Sculptor Troy Simmons)
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in the United States, Peru, London, Abu Dhabi, Germany,
Switzerland and Russia
Troy Simmons (b. 1975, TX) is a Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice
encompasses sculpture, photography, and 3D visualized worlds. He explores color, texture, and
structure to develop a unique visual language, fueled by curiosity that interrogates questions of
identity and habitat. Raised between the urban landscape of Houston and his grandfather’s
hand-built farmhouse in East Texas, Simmons grew up fascinated by natural forms and the structure
of simple dwellings. A self-taught artist since his early teens, Simmons’ creative inclinations
were complemented by his studies of Environmental Science at Sam Houston State University and
Architectural Technology at Oklahoma State University. His research on organic growth, animal
nest-making and the vernacular architecture of ancient cultures allowed him to recognize functional
design as a survival instinct across species, eventually leading to an artistic investigation of
identity as the difference between exterior and interior space.
Simmons’ work has appeared at Art Basel Miami Beach, VOLTA Basel Switzerland, Art Paris, Boca Raton
Museum of Art, Cornell Art Museum and a group show during the 57th Annual Venice Biennale. The
recipient of an Oolite Ellies Creator Award, Simmons has completed residencies at Artpace San
Antonio and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His work is held in private and corporate collections
including Charles Schwab's corporate headquarters in Austin Texas. To date, Simmons has completed
two large scale permanent commissions for public work – a building facade in Miami’s Wynwood
neighborhood commissioned by Goldman Global Development, and an architectural integrated sculpture
titled "Janus Portal" commissioned by Bombardier Inc. at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport
inspired by his 2018 sculpture, Vortex.
EDUCATION
Oklahoma State University- Architecture Technology 2005
Sam Houston State University- Environmental Science 1999-2002
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 SPORE, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami FL
2023 TEXTURES OF HUMANITY, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami FL 2018 VOLTA NEW YORK , NY
2016 REVISITING BRUTALISM, Artium Art, Miami FL
2015 DURCHBRUCH, JanKossen Contemporary, Chelsea NY 2014 GENESIS, Context / Art Miami, Miami FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
FLORIDA PRIZE IN CONTEMPORARY ART | ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART
INTERVALS - City of Coral Gables + Art Basel Miami Beach
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH, Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2023
ART BASEL | MIAMI BEACH, Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2022
ART BASEL | MIAMI BEACH, Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2021
2019
ART PARIS, Paris France
VOLTA BASEL, Basel Switzerland
2018
MONOCHROME, Jankossen Contemporary NY, Chelsea, NY
Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami FL
Cornell Art Museum: Looking Back, Delray Beach FL
2017
Nuovi Orizzonti- BIENNALE ARTE 2017 - 57th Venice Biennale - Jankossen Contemporary, Venice, Italy
Art New York, New York, NY
THE BLUE EDITION: MIAMI, Art Bastion Gallery, Miami FL
2016
SACRED GEOMETRIES, Art Bastion Gallery, Wynwood, FL Locust Projects-Smash and Grab- Miami FL
Art Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL Art New York, New York City, NY
PSYCHEDELIC - JanKossen Contemporary, Chelsea, NY
2015
Cornell Museum - RE-IMAGINED, Delray Beach FL ART PARIS, Paris, France
Locust Projects-Smash and Grab- Miami FL
Art and Cultural Center - 7th Annual ALL Media Biennial, , Hollywood FL
BURST, University of Miami- Wynwood Gallery, Miami
2014
Coral Gables Museum - Urbanism: Perceived and Interpreted, , Coral Gables, FL Boca Museum - All
Florida 63rd Annual Exhibition, Boca Museum Of Contemporary Art , Boca Raton, FL
Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, NY
2013
Context / Art Miami, Miami, FL
Oscar Thomas Foundation’s 15th Annual Keepers of the Dream, Miami, FL
Abstractions, Gallery 101, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2012
Aspire (TV Network) Launch Gala, New York, NY
2011
Art In Empty Spaces II, Artistic Productions, Pompano Beach, FL The Cuban Artist Project, Close
Encounters II, , Miami FL
2010
IMPACT, Hardcore Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
Art In Empty Space, Artistic Productions, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2009
Untitled, Miami Art Group Gallery, Miami, FL Greener, Art Expressions, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2003
Red River Valley Heritage Art Exhibition, Red River Valley Museum, Vernon, TX (Betty King Write
Award recipient )
2002
You Don’t Know the Half Of It, Main Street Gallery, Huntsville, TX
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2003
RED RIVER VALLEY MUSEUM, Betty King Write Award,
2018
OOLITE ARTS - THE ELLIES AWARD -
2020
ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS - Oolite Home and Away Residency
ARTPACE SAN ANTONIO - Oolite
Home and Away Residency 2022
COMMISSIONS
Charles Schwab - Austin Texas Corporate Campus
Goldman Global Development - Wynwood 2300 Building - Wynwood-Miami Florida Bombardier Inc. -
Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport
BROADCAST
NPR-WLRN Pubic Radio - Biomorphic sculpture at Art Basel poses human, environmental questions 2024
NPR- WLRN Public Radio- Miami Art Week, 2021 The CW South Florida : Miami Art Week, 2017 NBC South
Florida, 6 In The Mix, December, 2015
NPR- WLRN Public Radio, Non Profit Teams up with Local Artist, December 1, 2015 NBC South Florida,
6 In The Mix, December, 2014
Aspire Network TV, Comcast/ Magic Johnson, June, 2012 (commercial -ongoing) ABC-Local 10, “Hot
Happenings”- January 18, 2011
ABC-KOCO, “Downtown Developer- Block 42”-June, 2005
TALKS
2021
SOHO BEACH HOUSE - ART CLUB: What to Expect During Miami Art Week
LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE (LAVC GALLERY) LECTURE SERIES
2020
WHITEWALL (IG Live)- In Conversation- April 2020
2019
DESIGN MIAMI Lexus Art Series: Art & Innovation Talks by Whitewall
2014
Boca Museum - All Florida 63rd Annual
PUBLICATIONS
ARCHITECT Beyond the Surface: When Art and Architecture Unite AVENTURA MAGAZINE Troy Simmons Makes
His Mark on Miami
MODERN LUXURY MIAMI- BASEL EDITION (TEAM EFFORT) - December 2020 CULTURED - Dec-Jan. 2019
WHITE WALL MAGAZINE - Troy Simmons Makes His Mark On Wynwood By Katy Donoghue THE MIAMI RAIL |
Issue 22 – Troy Simmons: Urban Concrete, Human Color
BERLIN JOURNAL | American Academy Fall issue 2016 (cover)
Artnet News, Tuesday, March 24, 2015 Artnet Asks: Sculptor Troy Simmons)
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections in the United States, Peru, London, Abu Dhabi, Germany,
Switzerland and Russia