Room 6

 

 

Xaviera Simmons/Installation/USA

 

 

Xaviera Simmons completed a Bachelors degree in Photography from Bard College in 2004, after having spent two years of pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. In 2004-2005, she participated in the studio program of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York while simultaneously completing a 2 years conservatory program in acting with The Maggie Flanigan Studio. Simmons was the 2005-2006 Workspace Artist at The Jamaica Center For Arts and Learning and received the VKP artist/educator award from The New Museum. In 2006, she was commissioned by Art in General to create a site specific, six-month installation and performance project; that year, she was also an artist in residence at The Center For Photography At Woodstock. Simmons has participated in numerous exhibitions at The Studio Museum In Harlem, including Frequency. In 2007, she exhibited photographs and created installations at; Zacheta National Art Gallery in Warsaw, Poland, The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, among others. In 2008, Simmons will participate in an artist residency at Platform Garanti, in Istanbul, Turkey and another one at LightWork in Syracuse, New York; develop a project commissioned by The Public Art Fund as part of its In The Public Realm program; She will also participate in several group exhibitions, such as Street Art, Street Life at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, and Cinema Remixed and Reloaded at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, in Atlanta, Georgia.