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Caro Simon

Caro Simon (b.1997) is an interdisciplinary artist from Belgium/Luxembourg living and practicing in T’karonto(Toronto). She primarily works in sculpture/installation, poetry, printmaking and analog photography. Drawing from minimalist purposelessness and abstraction, her work examines the distanced modes of interactions between bodies and disregarded urban infrastructure as well as the anti-aesthetic in the context of postindustrial environments. 


Education

2020-2024: BFA in Sculpture & Installation, minor in Printmaking and Publications at OCAD University (Toronto, Canada)

2019-2020: Preparatory year in arts and design at L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (Strasbourg, France)











Scholarships, Grants & Awards

2025

OCADU Career Launcher recipient - Artist Project

2024 

Ignite Gallery Sculpture and Installation Award

OCADU Medal for Sculpture & Installation

Won Lee Fine Art Award (Sculpture and Installation)

Nora E. Vaughan Award

Carmen Lammana Award 

2023 - Women's Art Association of Canada Mary E. Dignam Scholarship (OCAD University)

2022 - Birgid Ebsen Scholarship (OCAD University)

2016 - 1st price at Jeune Printemps du Luxembourg for young emerging poets

Professional experience

2025 -present

Installer - Patel Brown, Toronto

2024- present

Gallery Attendant, Tour guide - The Image Centre 

2023-2024 

Gallery Attendant & Installer - Ignite Gallery 

2023

Intern - Punchclock Metalworks, Toronto. 

2016-2020

Freelance poet



Artist  talk 

2025 

Thesis Panel, Ocad University, Toronto


Group exhibitions

2025 

Photorama: B-sides and outtakes, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.

OCAD U Career Launcher Artist Project (May 8th - 11th), Toronto, ON.

Instructions for curating, Youthful Vengeance (Feb 27- Mar 5), Toronto, ON.


2024

Remains, Redhead Gallery, Toronto, ON.

Ignite Gallery Sculpture and Installation Award exhibition, Ignite Gallery  (May 1st- Aug 16th), Toronto, ON.

Meeting Halfway, Dignam Gallery, Women's Art Association of Canada (July 25th-Aug 3rd), Toronto, ON.


2023

SCIN II, Beaver Hall, Toronto, Canada.


2022

Unrest - collective exhibition with Blink Twice Initiative (August 12-14th 2022), Toronto, Canada.


Publications 

Publication of five poems in Anthology of Young Luxembourgish poets at Vaxikon / Luxembourg- Greece, 2020.

Transpoetry Festival 10th edition – Poet representing Luxembourg – readings and commissioned poems / Luxembourg -Brussels, 2020.

Publication of Die Schienbeine der Stadt with poets Timotéo Sergoï et Claire Gondor in parasitenpresse / Germany, 2019.

Participation as a poet in the Poetry Festival POEMA - with Belgian and Luxembourgish artists Tom Nisse, Sandy Flinto and Pierrick Goberty / poetry and performance / Luxembourg, 2018.

* Publications in On peut se permettre (poetic magazine) / Brussels, Belgium, 2016-2019.

Residency & Readings

Poet in residence (representing Luxembourg) in Saarbrücken (Germany) for the Printemps poétique transfrontalier. Poetry readings during tour through France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg with international poets / February- March 2019