Trish Simonite Bio
Trish Simonite was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and recently retired as a Professor Emerita from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, where she taught photography and digital art. She and her husband have raised three talented children all of whom are lens-based artists.
Her still life and landscape photographs have been exhibited in group and solo shows in Europe and throughout the United States. Her work has been published in books and magazines including An Introduction to the Art of Photography, by Katie Stern, and Zoom Magazine. Collections holding her work include: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Photography Collection at the University of Texas in Austin; the Peter Palmquist Collection of Women Photographers, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, YaleUniversity, Connecticut; the San Antonio Museum of Art; University Health Systems Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, and the Linda Pace Collection in San Antonio, Texas.
She recently completed a large scale commissions with her daughter, Francesca Simonite, for University Health System Hospital’s Women’s & Children’s Tower in San Antonio, Texas. They designed four floors of photo-based artwork that will be installed in corridors and patient rooms. The project will be finished in 2023.