Joshua Simon

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Joshua Simon
simon working in studio in 2011
Born	March 3, 1979
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University (BA) Goldsmiths College (MPhil, PhD)
Occupation(s)	Curator and writer
Organization(s)	The Free Academy, Baboon Films, Maayan publishing, The New and Bad Art gallery, Guerrilla Culture

Joshua Simon (born 1979, Tel Aviv), is a curator, writer, publisher, cultural critic, poet, filmmaker and public intellectual. He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA.

In 2024, Simon curated a seminal art project in Vienna Secession titled SLIME [1].

Prior to that, Simon curated exhibitions in museums and art spaces in Tel Aviv-Yafo, NYC, Melbourne, London, Zürich, Vienna, Berlin, and Amsterdam, among other places. Simon is former director and chief curator at MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam, Israel (2012- 2017), which made him the youngest museum director in the history of the country.^[1] Co-founding editor of the Tel Aviv-Yafo based Maayan publishing together with Roy Chicky Arad. His writing has been taught among other places at the Royal College of Art London, UK, Northwestern University Chicago, US, and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts Norway.