Alette Simmons-Jimenez is a visual artist whose work engages video, mixed media, sculpture, and installations.

Alette Simmons-Jimenez was born into a US military family that boasted nineteen different homes. As a nomad and a perpetual outsider, she longed for a sense of belonging and identity. The one constant was her creative capacity. After graduating with a BFA from Newcomb Memorial College of Tulane University in New Orleans, she was again drawn to the call of distant shores. She relocated to the Dominican Republic and stayed eighteen years. Now based in Miami, she continues themes of this push and pull, this need to settle and to move on, embodying the struggle between intellect and humane nature.

The artist's works have been exhibited internationally and are held in permanent collections at the Mobile Museum of Art, Santo Domingo's Museo de Arte Moderno, and the Louisville 21c Museum and others. She has been selected to particpate in respected programs such as Creative Capital Professional Development Programs and the Enrique Martinez Celaya Summer Workshop in art theory (affiliated with the Anderson Ranch). She is the recipient of several fellowships, awards, and grants from institutions such as the Florida Department of State, Miami-Dade Division of Cultural Affairs, the Knight Foundation, Optica International in Spain, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Renaissance Center in Tennessee, and others. While residing in the Dominican Republic her entry to the XVIII National Biennial, at the Museo De Arte Moderno was awarded the 1st Prize in Video. She is recognized as the first woman artist to exhibit video art in that country.

Articles including her work have appeared in numerous journals and publications. Recently the artist was selected as a Miami New Times "100 Creatives", she was included in the book "Miami Contemporary Artists", and was twice selected for "New American Paintings", once featured on the cover.

Simmons-Jimenez founded Artformz in 2004, an artist run exhibition space that was located in the Wynwood Arts District. As director of the project she created, curated and produced numerous exhibitions, including "Giants in the City" a 2008 Knight Arts Challenge winning project, the "Small Wonderz Art Salon" project, and "Artist Invites Artist" an international exchange exhibit with artists from Valencia, Spain.

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Education
BFA - Newcomb Memorial College, Tulane U, New Orleans, Studio Art: Painting/Sculpture

Workshops / Residencies
Whale & Star, Affiliated w/Anderson Ranch, Professional Practices, Miami
Creative Capital, NY, Advanced PDP, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs
Resident Artist, The Studios Of Key West, Invitational Residency, Key West
Creative Capital. NY, Prof. Development Program, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs
Resident Artist, ArtCenter/South Florida, Juried Residencies, Miami Beach

Media Art / Screening Venues
Festival Miden, Women at Work, Kalamato, Greece
Misterpink, Screens: Pan American, cur: Damian Jorda, Valencia, Spain
Amid the Street Noise, Museum of Art, Ft Lauderdale
O Cinema, Monitoring Art, Miami
Espacio Iniciarte, cur: Alanna Lockward, Seville
Optica Paris 08, Cervantes Institute, Paris
Off Loop, Casa America Cataluña, Loop 2008 Festival, Barcelona
The Chelsea Art Museum, Video Art in the Age of the Internet, New York
Medianoche: New Media Gallery, Cort(H)Itos, East Harlem
Circa 06, Cort(H)Itos, cur: Carmen Oquendo-Villar, San Juan
Moca, Optic Nerve III & V, North Miami
Palm Beach Inst. of Cont. Art, Media Lounge, cur: Michael Rush, Lake Worth
Maryland Public Television, Independent Eye, Owings Mills
Eyedrum Art/Music Gallery, Panoptic Mind: Untitled, Atlanta
Arts Festival of Atlanta, Video Screening, Atlanta
Louisville Film and Video Festival, Artswatch, Louisville
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Centro Cultural Paraguay-Japones, III International Short Films Fest. Paraguay

Solo Exhibitions / Project Spaces
Seeking Shelter, La Mutante, cur: Cristina Ghetti, Valencia, Spain - forthcoming
3, Artformz, (with Randy Burman, Rosario Bond) Miami
A Terrible Beauty, Artformz, (with Sibel Kocabasi) Miami
Up, Down, Backwards & Forwards, The Studios of Key West, Key West
Hanging By A Wire, Artformz Alternative, Miami Design District, Miami
Flux & Flow, Artformz Alternative, Miami Design District, Miami
Video Works By Alette Simmon-Jimenez, PBICA, cur: Michael Rush, Lake Worth
New Installations, Artformz Alternative, Miami Design District, Miami
Walk-In #5, Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami-Dade College, Miami
Stop/Motion, Art Gallery/Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Miami-Dade Cultural Resources Art Gallery, Miami
Order & Chaos, La Sinfonia de Bellas Artes, Key West
The Figure: More Than You Have Ever Seen, Creative Resource, Birmingham, MI
Worlds: Past & Present, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables
Obras Reciente, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Painting and Sculpture, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables
Recent Work, Coral Snake Gallery Miami Beach
Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, D. R.

Selected Group Shows
Brenda Taylor Gallery, Group Show, Chelsea, New York
TSKW Sculpture Garden, Understory, Cur: Anja Marais, Key West
The Mordes Collection, Outside the Box, Cur: Sibel Kocabasi, West Palm Beach
Miami Design District, Artist Invites Artist, Common Ground, Spain/USA, Miami
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Holes, Cur: Stevie Greco, Chicago
Pulse Fair Miami, Small Wonderz (Art) Salon, With ACSF, Wynwood, Miami
Wynwood Art Fair, Small Wonderz (Art) Salon, With ACSF, Miami Beach
Verge Art Fair, Small Wonderz (Art) Salon, Miami Beach
Casa de la Cultura, ArtistaInvitaArtista, Spain/USA, Valencia, Spain
The Appleton Art Museum, Florida Installation Art, Cur: Sean Miller, Ocala, Fl
Art Shanghai, Latin American Pavilion, Cur: Milagros Bello, Shanghai
Aqua Art, Wynwood Satellite Art Fair, with Artformz, Miami
ArteAmericas, Miami Beach Convention Center, Artformz, Miami Beach
Artformz, The Making of Giants, Giants in the City Project, Miami
Bayfront Park, Knight Arts Grant Winner, Giants in the City, Artformz, Miami
Armory Art Center, The Edge, Juror: Bonnie Clearwater, W. Palm Beach
FIU, Green Library Gallery, Aesthetics & Values 2008, Miami
Hardcore Contemporary Art, Objecthood, Cur: Milagros Bello, Miami
Art Miami, Convention Center, Miami Beach
Art & Cultural Center, New Art As Universal Language, Hollywood, FL
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
Circa 06, Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Art Miami, Convention Center, Galeria Art Nouveau, Miami Beach
Artformz Alternative, It's So Unfair, Art Basel Week, Miami
Edge Zones, Beyond All That, Wynwood Arts District, Miami
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Visions, West Palm Beach
J Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
National Assoc. of Women Artists, 114th Annual Exhibition, New York
Renaissance Center, 4th Annual Regional Art Exhibit, Tennessee
Banana Factory, 113th Annual Exhibition, NAWA, Pennsylvania
Gulf Coast Museum, Florida Fellowships 1998-99, Cur: Ken Rollins, Largo
US State Dept. Art in Embassies, Ambassadorial Residence, Honduras
Mobile Museum of Art, Triennial S.E. Exhibition, Juror: James Rondeau, Mobile
The Museum of Art, Hortt 40, Juror: Thelma Golden, Fort Lauderdale
Society of the Four Arts, 55th Nat. Exhibition, Juror: Kevin Consey, Palm Beach
Museo de Arte Moderno, XVIII Bienal, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Musee du Luxembourg, Les 3 Ameriques A Paris, Paris, France

Fellowship / Awards / Grants
Mastermind Genius Awards "100 Creatives" Miami New Times, Miami
Knight Arts Partnership Grant Award, The Knight Foundation, Miami
Tourism Development Council Grant, Miami-Dade Div. Cultural Affairs, FL
Community Grants Program Award, Miami-Dade Div. Cultural Affairs, FL
Special Xurau Mozu Prize, Optica International Video Art Festival, Gijon, Spain
Artist Enhancement Grant, Florida Department of State, Div. Of Cultural Affairs
April Z. Newhouse Memorial Award, National Association Of Women Artists, New York
Merit Award, Regional Art Exhibit, Renaissance Center Visual Arts Gallery, Dickson, Tn
Featured In Southern Edition, New American Paintings
Best Of Show/Purchase Award-Triennial Exhibit, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Al
Individual Artist Fellowship Painting, Florida Dept. of State, Div. of Cultural Affairs
Featured In Southern Ed. & Cover Photo, New American Paintings
Liquitex Artist Grant, Binney & Smith, Inc., Easton, Pa
Honorable Mention, Individual Artist Fellowship, FL Dept. of State, Cultural Affairs
1st Prize: Video, XVIII Bienal, Museo De Arte Moderno, Stanto Domingo, D.R.

Selected Collections
Mastercard International, Miami, FL
21c Museum, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
Mobile Museum Of Art, Mobile, AL
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, D.R.
Museo de Las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo, D.R.
The Alan & Vivien Hassenfeld Collection, Boston, MA
The Lewis-Sebring Family, Fisher Island, FL
The Ortiz-Gurdian Collection, Managua, Nicaragua
The United States Embassy, Santo Domingo, D.R.
The Dominican-American Cultural Institute, Santo Domingo, D.R.