Artist Bio
Coriolana Simon has exhibited widely in the Washington, DC area since 2010. Her solo exhibits of still life include a large show at the region’s premier arts center: The Mansion at Strathmore. Occupying the entire first floor of this historic mansion, the exhibit is open from mid-November 2023 to mid-January 2024. She has also presented a 2022 online exhibit through Biafarin / Exhibizone as well as at live venues such as Penn Place Gallery, Artists and Makers Gallery, the Art Gallery of Brookside Gardens, and Glenview Mansion, all in suburban Maryland. Recent group shows – 2020, 2021, 2023 – include several with Biafarin online, the Friendship Gallery in Chevy Chase, MD, and the Maryland State House. 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. In 2020, she was the winner of the international still-life competition sponsored by MPB. 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.