Artist Bio
Coriolana Simon has exhibited her still lifes widely in the Washington, DC area and has become known internationally as well. Her solo exhibits include a large show at Maryland’s premier arts center: The Mansion at Strathmore. Occupying the entire first floor of this historic mansion, the exhibit ran from November 2023 to January 2024. She has also exhibited at such venues as Penn Place Gallery, Artists and Makers Gallery, the Art Gallery of Brookside Gardens, Glenview Mansion, Friendship Gallery in Chevy Chase, all in suburban Maryland, as well as at the Maryland State House. Internationally, Simon’s work has won both “finalist” and “highly commended” awards in the UK International Garden Photographer of the Year competition #18. In 2024, Circle Foundation for the Arts named her as one of 12 Finalists in their Artist of the Year program and published her work in their magazine, Spotlight. Her work was also shown at the EuropArt Fair in Amsterdam in 2024. In 2022, she presented an online exhibit through Biafarin / Exhibizone. Recent international group shows include several with Biafarin and Gallerium online. Among her honors is an honorable mention by the Maryland Photography Alliance in 2022, a special honor from the Wilmington International Exhibition of Photography in 2021, Best in Show and Best in Still Life at Mid-Atlantic Photo Visions of 2020, as well as 2nd place at the Strathmore, MD, multi-media juried exhibit in 2019. Lenswork included one still life in their 2023 monograph, three of her images in “Trilogies,” published in 2022, and another in “Our Magnificent Planet” in 2021. Simon also lectures and gives workshops on still life. Her work is held in private, corporate, and ecclesiastical collections.