SIMONE PATERSON
Selected Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
2005 Doctorate of Philosophy, Fine Arts, The University of Newcastle, The School of Fine Art, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
1997 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Sculpture and Multimedia, Studio Arts Centers International, Florence, Italy.
1995 Master of Visual Arts, Sculpture, Performance and Installation, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, New South Wales, Australia.
1991 Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Photography and Electronic Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, New South Wales, Australia.
1990 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Photography and Electronic Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, New South Wales, Australia.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 Copenhaver Scholar-in-Residence, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.
2022–24 Artist-in-Residence, Dreamin Big Art Program, Roanoke, VA.
2011–12 International Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney, Australia (13 weeks).
AWARDS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Best in Show, Beyond All Boundaries, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA. Juror: Alpha Massaquoi Jr.
2024 Honorable Mention, VAxDesign Prize for Public Interest Award, for the Lansdowne Street Mural, Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, Richmond, VA. Resulting from the Dreamin Big Art Program artist residency.
2017 Finalist for The University of Newcastle Newton-John Alumni Award. This award recognizes innovation or creativity in any field that has improved cultural life — one of three international finalists, The University of Newcastle Challenge, New South Wales, Australia.
2015 Third Place Award, 250 Radius Exhibition, Artspace, Richmond, VA. Juror: Amy Moorfield, Deputy Director of Exhibitions, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA.
2009 Creative Achievement Award, 2008 Diversity Award, School of Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
1995 New South Wales Travelling Art Prize (12-month postgraduate study in Florence), awarded by the New South Wales Arts Council, Australia.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2016–18 Chair of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Technologies, School of Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2010–18 Associate Professor, School of Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Studio Chair, 2013–16.
2004–09 Assistant Professor of New Media Art, School of Visual Arts, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2009 Fall Visiting Professor of New Media Art for M.F.A. Dance Program, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA.
2001–03 Teacher of New Media, Hunter Institute of Technology, Newcastle, Australia.
2000–01 Adjunct Professor of Art Theory and Photography, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Within Reach, Alexander Heath Contemporary, Roanoke, VA.
2025 Artistic Encounters: Meet the Artist Simone Paterson, Blue Ridge PBS, Roanoke, VA.
2024 Machine Memory + Motherboards, Artspace, Richmond, VA.
2023 ULTRAVIOLET: A Life of Purpose, retrospective exhibition, Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.
2022 Quantum Field Notes, Alexander Heath Contemporary, Roanoke, VA.
2019 Machine Memory + Motherboards, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2017 Last Words, Gallery 139, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
2014 108; everything, nothing, infinity, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG), New South Wales, Australia.
2013 Diametric, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
2012 Diametric, PODspace Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
2011 Nest, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA.
2008 This is NOT America, digital video, HR Gallop Gallery, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 On Point!: A National Exhibition of Contemporary Embroidery, The Vault, d'Art Center, Norfolk, VA.
2025 Beyond All Boundaries, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA.
2025 Pilgrims at the Creek, Municipal Building, Roanoke, VA.
2025 Neo Appalachian: Melody and Mythos, Holler House, Bristol, VA.
2024 Textiles, Traditions and Transformation, Montgomery Museum of Art and History, Christiansburg, VA.
2023 Olin Hall Galleries Biennial, Olin and Smoyer Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem, VA.
2022 50th Anniversary of A.I.R. Gallery, electronic billboard, Times Square, New York, NY.
2022 Tangled Roots: Exploring Appalachian Feminisms, Pam Miller Art Center, Lexington, KY.
2021 From These Hills, William King Museum of Art, Abingdon, VA.
2021 Fractal Nature, National Members Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2020 Forever Is Composed of Nows, National Members Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2020 Guns to Roses: From the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG), New South Wales, Australia.
2019 Active Directions of the Mind, National Members Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2018 National Members Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2015 Just Paper: The Piano Has Been Drinking, Not Me, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG), New South Wales, Australia.
2013 International Expo: Art of Instagram, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA.
2011 Associations, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (UICA), Grand Rapids, MI.
2010 Freedom Sparks International Video and Film Festival, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2009 Dancers I, II, and III, experimental video works, footage filmed at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company studio, New York, of Steps, by Merce Cunningham. Edited using chance operations; curated by Ray Kass at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Artistic Encounters: Meet the Artist Simone Paterson. A documentary aired on Blue Ridge PBS, 2025, runtime of 2.5 minutes.
Margo Boonne, Copenhaver Scholar-in-Residence Simone Paterson premieres art retrospective. https://www.roanoke.edu/news/ultraviolet. 2023.
Radio interview. WEHC 90.7. Emory & Henry’s local college station. Art Speaks, with hosts from William King Art Museum. 2017.
Jim Kellar, Gallery 139 show focuses on famous last words, The Newcastle Herald, 2017.
Jill Stowell, Gallery 139’s show of strength, The Newcastle Herald, Home Life & Style Life, 2017.
Meagan Northcote, Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Appalachian Art. The Appalachian Voice, 2014. http://appvoices.org/2014/12/19/breaking-boundaries/
Emma Swain, Using art to fight bullets, The Maitland Mercury, 2014 http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/2314260/using-art-to-fight-bullets/?cs=171
Helen Gregory, Best of Both Worlds, The Newcastle Herald, New South Wales, Australia, 2012.
Kevin Kittredge, An Exhibition You Can Touch, The Roanoke Times, Extra, Roanoke, VA., 2009.
Tim Feran, 18 Creators Salute Double Darwin Milestone, The Columbus Dispatch, Life & Arts, Columbus, OH., 2008.
Melissa Link, America on the Brink, Atlanta Art Papers, 2007.
Lindsay Key, Out and About, Something Different, The Roanoke Times, New River Valley Current, 2007.
Gail Philbin, Exhibit juxtaposes, safety, insecurity, Australian-born artist creates a study in opposites, The Grand Rapids Press, Extra, Grand Rapids, MI., 2006.
Jill Stowell, Data Bodies, The Newcastle Herald, Weekender, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 2004.
Bruce James, In Every House a Work of Art, The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1998.
Felicity Fenner, New Girls: The Disembodied Couture Of The Nineties, Art And Australia, Volume 32, Issue 3, Autumn 1995, pp. 344 – 346.
