Xaviera Simmons is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1974. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago have featured Xaviera Simmons's work in the past.Xaviera Simmons's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 189 USD to 15,120 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 15,120 USD for INDEX FOUR, COMPOSITION TWO, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2020. Xaviera Simmons has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Aesthetica in December 2024.
鈥淭oo often, we see images of Black people in attitudes of despair, pain, or brutal isolation,鈥 writes Teju Cole in the catalogue for Saatchi Gallery鈥檚 new show: As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic.
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..Simmons鈥 particular vocabulary of movement, reference, sense, text, breath, sound, and image offers ways of looking at mapping, sexuality, gender, pleasure, and sensuality in a queer context and in an...
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..Simmons employed assorted props and masks as well as found objects and personal items to engage participants in the construction of each image...
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..If Laocoon invites meditation on the entropy of identity鈥 perhaps under the weight of hegemony, perhaps under localized contestations, perhaps in preparation for rebirth鈥 Simmons鈥 interventions upon full...
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..For Underscore , Simmons looks at how artists draw directly from the movements, subtitles, and concepts of other practitioners in order to produce work...
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