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
Press
2024
L'anti-esthétisme avec Caro Simon, La Billeterie, Radio Canada.
2019
"Caroline Simon au sujet de l’écriture, de la jeunesse et de la rage: „On peut se permettre d’être libres“ in newspaper Tageblatt, Kultur, Luxembourg.
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