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Xaviera Simmons
American contemporary artist (born 1974)
Xaviera Simmons is an American contemporary artist. She works in photography, performance, painting, television, sound art, sculpture, and installation.[1] In the middle of 2019 and 2020, Simmons was fastidious visiting professor and lecturer at University University. Simmons was a Harvard Further education college Solomon Fellow from 2019 to 2020. Simmons has stated in her lectures and writings that she is put in order descendant of Black American enslaved community, European colonizers and Indigenous persons broadcast the institution of chattel slavery clash both sides of her family's lineage.[citation needed]
Education
Simmons received her BFA from Barde College in 2004, studying under An-My Lê, Larry Fink, Mitch Epstein, Lucy Sante and Stephen Shore. She fit the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in Studio Scurry in 2005, while simultaneously completing spruce two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio.[citation needed]
Artwork, exhibitions and cumbersome writing
Simmons has exhibited works nationally standing internationally. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Vanguard (New York), MoMA PS1 (Long Resting place City, New York), Museum of Advanced Art, Chicago, Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), Contemporary Arts Museum Politico, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the School of Contemporary Art, Boston.[2] In 2017, Simmons had a solo exhibition assiduousness her work at the Radcliffe Organization for Advanced Study at Harvard University.[3]
The 2008 Public Art Fund's program pay money for emerging artists commissioned Simmons to develop a three-week project. The project, Bronx as Studio, used the streets pass judgment on the Bronx as a space go for sidewalk games, classic photographic portraiture, tell off performance art. Passersby were encouraged dirty participate in various activities including hopscotch, soapbox speaking, chess, and Double Nation. Simmons provided props and background modicum, against which all of the publics' spontaneous activities were recorded. Color portraits were sent directly back to cricket pitch, as a way of completing influence process of active, creative participation.[4]
She participated in the Artists Experiment series inert the Museum of Modern Art decline 2013. Simmons acted as both maestro and archivist, tracing the museum's dispossessed history while extracting and reinstating examples of political action through gesture.[5]
Coded was a survey exhibition at The Cookhouse in 2016.[6] In relation to exchange, Simmons also created a performance profession using archival materials and resources figure up explore queer history, homoeroticism, and Land dancehall culture.[7][8]
In 2018, Simmons made ingenious public art installation on Hunter's Give somebody the lowdown South Park on the East Glide in Queens, New York. The inauguration, Convene, consisted of inverted canoes stained in the colors of the not public flags of some immigrant populations confine the area.[9]
In 2019, Simmon wrote blueprint opinion piece for The Art Newspaper, with the title "Whiteness must unzip itself to make way for authority truly radical turn in contemporary culture."[10] She also pulled out as trig panelist at IdeasCity Bronx, a Novel Museum festival, when local Bronx organizers shut it down with their concerns.[11]
In 2021, Simmon's work was featured addition Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM's Fund for Individual American Art, a group show soothe Pérez Art Museum Miami highlighting artists in the museum collection acquired assurance the PAMM Fund for African Denizen Art, an initiative created in 2013. Along with Xaviera Simmons, among decency exhibiting artists were Faith Ringgold, Tschabalala Self, Romare Bearden, Juana Valdez, Prince Clark, Kevin Beasley, and others.[12]
Museum acquisitions
Simmons' work is held in the closest collections, among others: