Alette Simmons-Jimenez Email & Phone Number

Alette Simmons-Jiménez an American artist and cultural organizer based in Miami, Florida. Simmons-Jiménez navigates landscape art, pushing the boundaries of the human/nature connection. Her work navigates current climatic concerns as well as supernatural vistas of what a future Earth might portray through a rigorous, multifarious, art practice. Her work combines mixed-media painting and collage, poetry, text, sculptural assemblage, installation, and video.Simmons-Jimenez has exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and festivals in Spain, France, Dominican Republic, Greece, Shanghai, Canary Islands; and in the US in New York, Miami, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, and more. She is the recipient of a Knight Arts Challenge Grant, a Florida Fellowship Grant, a Florida Artists Enhancement Grant, a Miami-Dade Tourism Development Grant, a Miami-Dade Community Grant, a 1st Prize in Video at the XVIII Biennial in the Dominican Republic, as well as awards for art project development through Artformz Alternative, a Miami artist-run space she founded and directed from 2004-2011. The artist also maintains a podcast on the creative people driving the Miami art scene: artandcompanypodcast.com.Simmons-Jiménez's works are held in permanent collections at: Mobile Museum of Art, 21c Museum in Louisville, Museo de Arte Moderno Santo Domingo, Master Card Int. Miami. Articles and reviews have been published in Sculpture Magazine, Arte Al Limite, the Atlanta Journal, the Miami Herald, Miami Contemporary Artists, New American Paintings, and in numerous other periodicals, books, and web-based media.

Listed skills include Contemporary Art, Curating, Art, Sculpture, and 46 others.

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  Newcomb Memorial College Of Tulane University

  Studio Art; Painting; Sculpture