1. Between 2019 and 2020, Simmons was a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard University.
14 Facts About Xaviera Simmons
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Xaviera Simmons was a Harvard University Solomon Fellow from 2019 to 2020.
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Xaviera 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.
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Xaviera Simmons received her BFA from Bard College in 2004, studying under An-My Le, Larry Fink, Mitch Epstein, Lucy Sante and Stephen Shore.
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Xaviera Simmons completed the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program in Studio Art in 2005, while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio.
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Xaviera Simmons's work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Studio Museum in Harlem, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Walker Art Center, the Perez Art Museum Miami, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
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In 2017, Xaviera Simmons had a solo exhibition of her work at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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The 2008 Public Art Fund's program for emerging artists commissioned Xaviera Simmons to produce a three-week project.
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Xaviera Simmons provided props and background elements, against which all of the publics' spontaneous activities were recorded.
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Xaviera Simmons participated in the Artists Experiment series at the Museum of Modern Art in 2013.
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Xaviera Simmons acted as both artist and archivist, tracing the museum's own history while extracting and reinstating examples of political action through gesture.
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In relation to it, Xaviera Simmons created a performance work using archival materials and resources to explore queer history, homoeroticism, and Jamaican dancehall culture.
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In 2018, Xaviera Simmons made a public art installation on Hunter's Point South Park on the East River in Queens, New York.
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Xaviera Simmons' work is held in the following collections, among others:.