Xaviera Simmons

Xaviera Simmons creates photographs, installations, sculpture, performance, and video works that address diverse themes from historical and contemporary constructions of dominant ideologies to the potential of art as a participatory practice. Simmons is interested in the development of personal and collective identities and the ways in which discrimination and prejudice have affected the American narrative.

In her ‘Sundown’ series, she explores the legacies of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era. The title references towns in the United States where African Americans were not welcome after dark. Simmons layers an archival black-and-white image of Black children in a segregated pool over a patterned background that she inhabits as a character dressed in a colorful swim costume—linking the past with the present.

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