“I worked with the museum to build a site-specific work for the atrium that was large, expensive, and conceptualized completely by me,” Simmons told Artnet News. “It took a long time to conceptualize ...

Xaviera Simmons, “Red (Number One)” (2016), color photograph (all images courtesy of the artist and David Castillo Gallery unless otherwise noted) In Xaviera Simmon’s CODED exhibition, now on view at ...

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A century later, the first African American modernist movement continues to inspire and challenge. By Aruna D’Souza New monumental works are filling landscapes and galleries, where they argue for the ...

Artist Xaviera Simmons is the latest speaker in the University of Arizona School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars, or VASE, lecture series. Simmons is a 2004 graduate of Bard College who ...

"The six international artists included--Hurvin Anderson, Yto Barrada, Zarina Bhimji, Tony Capellán, Ledelle Moe and Xaviera Simmons--share diverse concerns regarding landscape, migration, memory, and ...