CaroSimon 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.
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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)
2018-2019: Erasmus at University of Cadiz (Cadix, Spain)
2016-2019: Bachelor in French and Roman Languages at University of Liège, minor in Spanish (Liège, Belgium)
2010-2016: European High School Diploma in Languages (French, German, English, Spanish, Latin, Russian) (Luxembourg)
Scholarships & Awards
2024 - Ignite Gallery Sculpture and Installation Award
OCADU Medal in 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
Skills
Oxyacetalyn, Tig & Mig welding
Screenprinting (intermediate)
Intaglio (etching)
Linocut & Woodcut
Analog photography & darkroom
Junior set design
Painting
Drawing
Translation (French, English, Spanish, German)
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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
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
Exhibitions
2024
* Ignite Gallery Sculpture and Installation Award exhibition, Ignite Gallery (May 1st- Aug 16th)
* Meeting Halfway, Dignam Gallery, Women's Art Association of Canada (July 25th-Aug 3rd)
2023
* SCIN II, Beaver Hall / Toronto, Canada
2022
* Unrest - collective exhibition with Blink Twice Initiative (August 12-14th 2022) / Toronto, Canada