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Artist: Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957)
Shimon is an American artist versed in a multitude of diverse media - from photography to works on paper, and from video installations to new media. His art focuses on the relationship between place, memory and identity. Shimon earned his B.A. from the University of California in 1980, M.A from Antioch University in 1982 and an M.F.A from San Francisco State in 1991. In 2013, he received the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award. Shimon was given many visual artist fellowships and awards from major organizations such as the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and Kunstfonds. His work has been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and The Miami Art Museum, among many others.