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Simone Handelman Duffy is a bio-artist, writer, and interdisciplinary maker working with organic collaborators, cultural technologies, and the burgeoning field of critical digital theory. At the forefront of emerging sustainable materials in their application to visual arts, their work explores sculptural, installation, time-based, and database forms to undermine the categories of natural, technological, and human. They are particularly interested in the development of mycelium, bacterial cellulose, and alginate as sculptural collaborators in a symbiogenetic mode of making together.
Her bio-installation, Time Piece, has been featured in Wild Archives: Material Metamorphosis (2025) at LaMaMa Galleria in New York City and she has shown work in the Etobicoke School of the Arts’ Portfolio Day 11 in Toronto. Handelman Duffy is an Academic Fellow in Media Philosophy at The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and a program representative for the Parsons School of Design’s Design History & Practice BFA program.
Handelman Duffy won the Student Research Award (2025) from The New School and is a Dean’s List awardee (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). They were the recipient of the Toronto District School Board’s Thisteltown C.I. Writer’s Craft Award (2021) and the inaugural winner of Etobicoke School of the Arts’ New Media Arts Award (2021).
Handelman Duffy is currently a Brooklyn-based artist. Studying at The New School, they have obtained a BFA at Parsons School of Design in Fine Arts Practice & History where they were awarded the title of
co-valedictorian, and are currently pursuing a BA at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts in Culture & Media Studies with a focus in Critical Digital Theory & Media Philosophy (Spring 2026).