Born in 1934 in the Bronx, New York City, Simon Gouverneur was a painter and printmaker. He received his formal art education from the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain. His works can be found in collections around the world, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City; Corcoran Gallery of Art (now the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design), Washington, DC; and Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
Gouverneur died in Washington, DC, in 1990. His late work has been the focus of three exhibitions: Icon Culture: The Late Paintings of Simon Gouverneur in 2000 at McClean Projects for the Arts, VA; Back To The Future: Alfred Jensen, Charmion von Weigand, and Simon Gouverneur and the Cosmic Conversation in 2009 at Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago; and in 2006, Andrea Pollan, the former exhibition director of the McClean Project for the Arts, organized Mystic Logic: Works from the Estate of Simon Gouverneur at her space, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC.
—Biography courtesy of TK Smith, curator, updated on 6-23-21; From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
1934
Bronx, NY
1990
Washington, DC
Male