Joan Simon is a writer, editor, and curator.  She has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and monographs, among these  On/With Bruce Nauman (2024), Edmund de Waal: ten thousand things (2016), and In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas  (2015). Among her exhibitions are Jenny Holzer: Signs (1987); Alexander Calder: The Paris Years 1926-1933 (2008), with Brigitte Leal; Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer (2009); Sheila Hicks: Fifty Years (2010) with Susan Faxon; and Lorna Simpson (2013). She is co-writer and an executive producer of Pamela B. Green’s  feature documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018); researcher in-chief and contributor to Conserving Calder’s Circus (2012); writer of Michael Blackwood’s Four Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg(2005). Former managing editor of Art in America, Simon served as general editor of the Bruce Nauman catalogue raisonné, and works independently for publishers, museums, foundations, and filmmakers.