Solo Exhibitions
Exotic Narrative,Philadelphia Airport Exhibitions Program, Philadelphia International Airport, 2006
The Problem of Prevost's Squirrel, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2005
The Pernicious Natural, Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA 2005
Prehistory of the Garden, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC 2004
Lush Life, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 2004
Strategies, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2003
Snake Cycle: Samantha Simpson, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY 2002
Snake Cycle, Westchester Art Workshop, SUNY/Westchester Community College, Westchester, NY 2002
Samantha Simpson, Slugfest Gallery, Austin, TX 2002

Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects
Ink! Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2007
I Woke Up in a Strange Place, Moti Hasson Gallery, NY,NY 2005-2006
New Releases, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA 2004
Artists in the Studio: 30 Years at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY 2004
Drawing on Landscape, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA 2003
Inspirational Choices, NARAL Benefit Auction, Philadelphia PA 2003
Red Dot 3, Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2002
Art at Steepletop, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 2002
Reciprocity, Print Portfolio
Atlanta 2001 Biennial: When the Wind Blows, Atlanta Contemporary Museum, Atlanta GA 2001
Samantha & Margaret Simpson, Slugfest Gallery, Austin, TX 2000
Bizarro World, Cornell Museum of Fine Arts, Orlando, FL 2000
Art & Technology, Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond, FL 1999
3 Amerikanische Positionen, Gallerie Michael Rache, Fribourg, Germany 1999
Work on Paper, Arts on Douglas, Ormond, FL 1998
Art & Technology, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL 1997
Projections in Public, Side Street Projects, San Francisco, CA 1996
Optimism & Sarcasm, The Lab, San Francisco, CA 1996
Integrated Hemispheres, Blasthaus, San Francisco, CA 1996
Spirographs, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 1995
Center for the Art at Yerba Buena Gardens Downtown Windows Exhibition, San Francisco, CA 1995
Big Jesus Trash Can, Installation, The Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA 1995
Art 94 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 1994
Self Portrait, The Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA 1994
Prehistoric, The Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA 1994
Art Kit, Musee d'Honneur Miniscule,New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA 1993
Ninth Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 1993

Reviews
Newhall, Edith, Drawings that Dot the 'I' in Ink,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 2007
Hill, Lori. "First Friday Focus," Philadelphia Citypaper, July 5, 2007
Fallon, Roberta. “Ink!" Philadelphia Weekly, July 18, 2007
Fallon, Roberta, “Ink at Gallery Joe,” Artblog, July 18, 2007
Johnson, Ken.  I Woke Up in a Strange Place,” New York Times, January 13, 2006.
Newhall, Edith.  “The Surreal to the Allegorical,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23, 2005
Fallon, Roberta.  “Editor’s Pick,” Philadelphia Weekly, December 21, 2005
"Animal Fables," Ed Sosanski, Philadelphia Enquirer, December 10, 2004
"Local Muses," Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, November 3, 2004
"New Releases and Paradise, Photographs by Lily Frisco, Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, August 4, 2004
"From the Artist's Mouth," Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosoff's Artblog, August 12, 2004
"First Friday ups and Downs," Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosoff's Artblog, August 8, 2004
"First Friday Fireworks," Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosoff's Artblog, July 5, 2004
"Lines Dance," Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly,February 12, 2003
"Cartoon Confrontations,Samantha Simpson's 'The Snake Cycle' at Hallwalls, Mark Lavatelli, ArtVoice, June 20-26,2002
"Fantasies and Nightmares,"Cathy Byrd, Creative Loafing, April 11, 2001
"Samantha Simpson's Snake Cycle," John Massier, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center Brochure, 2002
“The Greatest Shows in Town,” Steve Mitchell, ArtVoice, June 13, 2002
“When the Wind Blows:2001 Atlanta Biennial,” Stephanie Bowman, Art Papers, September 2001
“Biennial’s Big ‘Wind’ Has Small Substance”, Catherine Fox, Atlanta Journal Constitution, April 20, 2001
“When the Wind Blows: 2001 Atlanta Biennial,” Catalog essay, Teresa Bramlette
“Bizarro World: The Parallel Universes of Comics & Fine Arts” Ron Abrams, Catalog Essay, Cornell Museum 2000
"Double Vision", Steve Schneider, Orlando Weekly, March 16-22, 2000
"Wake up and hear, see and feel the difference", Laura Stewart, Daytona News Journal, December 12, 1999
"Art & Technology at the Ormond Art Museum", Carla Brooke, Flagler-Palm Coast Community Times, December 29, 1999
"Airbrush, Kegel und Selbstportrat", Badische Zeitung, May 22, 1999
"Samantha Simpson", Pat Benson, Leonardo, February, 1997
"Big Jesus Trash Can", Harry Roche, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 8-14, 1995
"The New Renaissance of San Francisco Dealers", Jeffrey Bernstein, Art West, January,1995
"Drawing First, Harry Roche, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 1, 1993
"Pop Pix, Prehistoric at the Victoria Room," Robert Friedman, Art week, October 21, 1993
"Inviting Art at an Uninviting Location," Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 1993

Residencies
2002 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerliz NY
1998 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL Writing Art Criticism: Affiliate Artist with Carter Ratcliff
1995-1997 Headlands Center for the Arts: Affiliate Artist

Education
MFA Painting 1993 San Francisco Art Institute
BFA 1990 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Collections
Carolyn Chernoff, Philadelphia, PA
Anne Fox, Beacon, NY
Austin Conkey, San Francisco, CA
Ann Newman, Williamsville, NY
Richard Pinegar, San Francisco CA
Minna Roberts, San Francisco, CA
Astrid Bowlby, Philadelphia, PA
Becky Kerlin, Philadelphia, PA
Gary Bolding, Deland, FL
Barbara Hammar, New York, NY
Michelle Rollman, New York, NY
Rene & Veronica DiRosa Foundation, Napa, CA