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BIOGRAPHY
Simmons-Jimenez is a painter, sculptor and video installation artist. She currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. She was born in Madison Wisconsin, but before her first birthday her family moved to Italy. They were continually on the move and the artist attributes the eclectic nature of her work, in part, to the many different places where she grew up. She received a BFA from Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, and soon relocated to the Dominican Republic, to live and work for 18 years.
Her works have been exhibited internationally in shows held in the Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France; CIRCA05, SanJuan, Puerto Rico; the US Department of State Art in Embassies Program, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; the Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; the New Media Lounge, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida; the National Association of Women Artists Gallery, New York , NY; the Art Gallery/Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.; and at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, and at other institutionas and private galleries.
Simmons-Jimenez is the recipient of numerous awards as well as State Fellowships & Grants. She is the founder and director of Artformz Alternative, an artist run space in the Miami Design District that produces bimonthly group projects with the collaboration of local and international artists of merit.
