<p><strong>Xaviera Simmons '05 </strong></p><p><strong>Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters </strong></p><p>Xaviera Simmons’s sweeping body of work centers around photography and includes performance, choreography, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. Her interdisciplinary practice is rooted in shifting definitions of landscape; character development; art, political, and social histories; and the interconnectedness of formal processes. </p><p>Simmons received her bachelor’s degree from Bard College after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage with Buddhist monks retracing the transatlantic slave trade. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art while simultaneously completing a two-year actor training with the Maggie Flanigan Studio. </p><p>Simmons received Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Award and Denniston Hills’ Distinguished Performance Artist Award, both in 2018. Her work is part of numerous upcoming exhibitions and projects including <em>Sundown </em>at David Castillo Gallery, Miami; <em>The Restless Earth, </em>curated by Massimiliano Gioni, at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2019); and Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Commission (2018–19), among many others. Recent solo exhibitions include <em>Convene </em>at Sculpture Center, New York; <em>Overlay </em>at </p><p>Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; and <em>The Gold Miner’s Mission to Dwell on the Tide </em></p><p><em>Line</em>, at Modern Window, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Current and recent museum group exhibitions include The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; MassArt, Boston; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Prospect.4, New Orleans; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Cincinnati Art Museum; and Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco. Her work has been featured in many publications, most recently in <em>Artforum</em>, <em>Artnet </em></p><p><em>News</em>, <em>Bloomberg</em>, <em>Hyperallergic, New York Magazine</em>, <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Paper Magazine</em>, and </p><p>others. Her works are in major museum and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Guggenheim Museum, and Agnes Gund Art Collection, all in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Studio Museum in Harlem; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Rubell Family Collection, Miami, among others. </p><p><a href="/goto?url=https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/xaviera-simmons" target="_blank">https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/xaviera-simmons </a></p>