Taryn Simon

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Taryn Simon is an American conceptual artist and photographer known for her rigorously researched projects that explore hidden systems of power, secrecy, and classification.

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Taryn Simon canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf conceptual artist
human
photographer
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Brown University
fieldOfWork conceptual art
installation art
photography
genre conceptual photography
documentary photography
hasExhibitedAt Art Gallery of Ontario NERFINISHED
Carnegie Museum of Art NERFINISHED
Centre Pompidou NERFINISHED
Fondation Louis Vuitton NERFINISHED
Guggenheim Museum NERFINISHED
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED
Museum of Modern Art NERFINISHED
Neue Nationalgalerie NERFINISHED
Tate Modern NERFINISHED
Whitney Museum of American Art NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement contemporary art
notableSeries A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters NERFINISHED
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar NERFINISHED
An Occupation of Loss NERFINISHED
Birds of the West Indies NERFINISHED
Contraband NERFINISHED
Paperwork and the Will of Capital NERFINISHED
The Innocents NERFINISHED
The Picture Collection NERFINISHED
notableWork A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters NERFINISHED
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar NERFINISHED
An Occupation of Loss NERFINISHED
Birds of the West Indies NERFINISHED
Contraband NERFINISHED
Paperwork and the Will of Capital NERFINISHED
The Innocents NERFINISHED
The Picture Collection NERFINISHED
occupation artist
photographer
visual artist
placeOfBirth New York City
sexOrGender female
workFocus archival practices
bureaucracy
classification systems
secrecy
state power
systems of power

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The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Taryn Simon
Description of subject: Taryn Simon is an American conceptual artist and photographer known for her rigorously researched projects that explore hidden systems of power, secrecy, and classification.

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Larry Aldrich Award hasRecipient Taryn Simon