At the Performing History event at Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 2017
Born
1974 (age 49–50)
New York, New York, U.S.
Education
Bard College
Known for
Photography Conceptual art Painting Sculpture Performance Installation
Movement
Contemporary art
Awards
Socrates Sculpture Park Artist Award alongside Agnes Gund (2019)
Patron(s)
Agnes Gund
Xaviera Simmons is an American contemporary artist. She works in photography, performance, painting, video, sound art, sculpture, and installation.[1] Between 2019 and 2020, Simmons was a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard University. Simmons was a Harvard University Solomon Fellow from 2019-2020. Simmons has stated in her lectures and writings that she is a descendant of Black American enslaved persons, European colonizers and Indigenous persons through the institution of chattel slavery on both sides of her family's lineage.[citation needed]
^"Xaviera Simmons". Yale School of Art. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
XavieraSimmons is an American contemporary artist. She works in photography, performance, painting, video, sound art, sculpture, and installation. Between...
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Along with Ringgold, the exhibiting artists included Tschabalala Self, XavieraSimmons, Romare Bearden, Juana Valdez, Edward Clark, Kevin Beasley, and others...
Alicja Kwade, Oscar Murillo, Christopher Myers, Eduardo Sarabia, XavieraSimmons, and Vivian Suter. The exhibition was among the first art experiences...
Nick's Pub in Harlem at a poetry night organized by visual artist XavieraSimmons. Over the next few months, the group solidified with a core of eleven...
as precedent for many of the contemporary artworks included. Artist XavieraSimmons, however, pointed out that these critics did not go far enough to look...
February 2014. "Photographs by rising stars Simon Berg, Matt Lipps, and XavieraSimmons". Modern Painters. 2010 (November): 60–61. Simon Mlangeni-Berg's website...
photographs, as well as works from Carrie Mae Weems, Rashid Johnson, XavieraSimmons, Bayeté Ross Smith, Fred Tomaselli, and Marilyn Minter, were exhibited...
included Hector Canonge, Stephanie Diamond, Shaun El C. Leonardo, and XavieraSimmons. The artists “were asked to develop projects that would integrate with...
1975. Joey Heatherton replaced Lynn Redgrave as the lead character of Xaviera Hollander. The film's tagline was, "She served her country... the only...
Sexual Dependency (2016) Teiji Furuhashi: Lovers, co-organized (2016) XavieraSimmons: The Gold Miner's Mission to Dwell on the Tide Line (Dez 2015 – May...
Purifoy, Marie “Big Mama” Roseman, Jacolby and Patricia Satterwhite, XavieraSimmons, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Stacy Lynn Waddell, Kara Walker, Carrie...
Six Story Gathering Boxes by Mary Beth Edelson (2014); Underscore by XavieraSimmons (2013); the first solo museum exhibition of KAWS (2010); 50,000 Beds:...
Crusade Fragments, 2004-05. Photographs, films, and performance from XavieraSimmons: High Seasoned Brown, 2004; Landscape Playground (It Ain't Hard to...
Fellow Laundromat Project NYC, NY 2018 Performance Art Seminar with XavieraSimmons Denniston Hill NY 2019 Artist in Residence Denniston Hill/Laundromat...
other artists of Smith's generation such as Nick Cave, Kalup Linzy, XavieraSimmons, and Hank Willis Thomas. Smith's sculptural works were also prominently...
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