Biography
Kristy Simmons was named Maryland Distinguished Scholar and won awards from the Washington Regional Scholastic Art Awards Foundation and the Maryland Artist Equity Foundation, and an Individual Artist Grant from the Arts Council of Montgomery County. She was selected to learn printmaking concepts at the Smithsonian Institution, and her portfolio received honors from the National Scholastic Art Awards, the National Arts Recognition & Talent Search and the Pratt National Talent Search.
Kristy Simmons received both the Dean's and Chancellor's Awards as well as the Irwin Scholarship at UC-Santa Cruz. She studied art in Italy her junior year where she explored firsthand the Italian masters which gave influence to her work.
Kristy Simmons has been selected for numerous exhibitions including the Museum of Natural History, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has been selected for exhibitions by many esteemed curators, including Jack Cowart, former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, JoAnne Moser, Curator of Graphic Arts at The National Museum of American Art, J.W. Mahoney, Washington Art Correspondent for Art in America, as well as independent curators such as Sarah Tanguy, Lenny Campello and Deborah McLeod.
Kristy Simmons’ art has been featured in the media in segments on NBC News, ABC News, the Montgomery Cable Channel The Washington Post, The Montgomery Journal and The Baltimore Sun.
Presently, Kristy Simmons lives in Bethesda, Maryland, where she maintains her studio.
