Selected Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

ICA Miami, Miami

The High Museum Of Art, Atlanta

The Nasher Museum Of Art at Duke University, North Carolina

The Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Perez Art Museum Miami

UBS Art Collection, New York

The Studio Museum In Harlem

Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina

The Agnes Gund Art Collection

Deutsche Bank, New York

de la Cruz Collection, Miami

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art

Selected Exhibitions

2026

African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, Miami

Untitled, Weston Art Gallery, Ohio

2025

Figure Eleven, The Contemporary Dayton, Ohio

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Museum, NY

Capture Photo Festival, Toronto Canada

The Other Side of the Tracks,516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Charismatic Goods, Canada Gallery, New York

The Other Side of the Tracks, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, Colorado

RE/SISTERS - A Lens on Gender and Ecology,  Fotomuseum, Antwerpen

2024

Reading Work, National, USA

Freedom is Not Guaranteed, Washington, DC Public Library

Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum, PA 

Phoenix Art Museum: Widening The Lens, Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum, PA 

The Other Side of the Tracks, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, Utah

2023 

Vessel and Veil, David Castillo, Miami, FL 

RE/SISTERS, Barbican Centre, London, UK 

Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, LA 

House in Motion / New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL 

2022 

Crisis Makes a Book Club, Queens Museum, NY

A Divided Landscape, The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR

Nectar, Kadist, Paris, FR, May 5 – July 24, 2022 [Konsthall, Stockholm, SE, September

10 – November 12, 2022]

Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, Berkeley Art Museum, CA Collective Expressions Of A Gesture, Concordia University Montreal, Quebec Together, at the Same Time, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL 

Reimagining: New Perspectives, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY 

Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from the ICA Collection, ICA Miami, FL 30 Americans, New Britain Museum of Art, CT 

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, CA 

Sign and Substance, David Castillo, Miami, FL

2021

In the dim light pressing deeply against each other, David Castillo, Miami, FL

Desert X 2021, Coachella Valley, CA

Xaviera Simmons: Falk Visiting Artist, The Weatherspoon Art Museum UNC

Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

The structure the labor the foundation the escape the pause, Sarasota Art Museum,

Sarasota, FL

Undoing Time: Art and the Histories of Incarceration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 

Subliminal Horizons curated by Alvin Hall, Alexander Gray Gallery, New York, NY There’s There There Organized by Rashid Johnson, Hauser & Wirth, Southhampton, NY 

Brand New Heavies, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY 

The Stomach and the Port, Liverpool Biennial, UK 

The Willfulness of Objects, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA 

CURRENTS, David Castillo, Miami, FL 

2020

Xaviera Simmons: Posture, Great Hall Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, NY

Monuments Now, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY

DC Window, David Castillo, Miami, FL 

States Of Mind: Art and American Democracy, Moody Center for the Arts Rice University, Houston, TX 

Uptown Triennial 2020, Wallach Art Gallery Columbia University, New York, NY Times Square Alliance Billboard, New York, NY 

Freedom is Not Guaranteed, For Freedoms, New York, NY 

Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK 

NXTHVN inaugural group exhibition, New Haven, CT 

We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 

Eleven Figures, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, CA 

All of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA 

Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM’s Fund for African American Art, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL 

Transitional Nature: Hudson River School Paintings from the David and Laura Grey Collection, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL 

Tesoro, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, Miami, FL 

When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN 

2019

Chord, Platform, curated by Sally Tallant, The Armory Show, NY

When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

The Warmth of Other Suns, Phillips/New Museum, New York, NY 

Gravity of Perception, Center for Visual Arts, MSU Denver, CO 

American African American, Phillips, New York, NY 

Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH 30 Americans, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City 

A History and a Moment: Works from the UBS Art Collection, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY 

Contemporary Performance, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa. FL Live Dangerously, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC New Monuments for New Cities, Network Joint Art Initiative Commission, The High Line, New York, NY 

SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Great Force, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 

Better Nights, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL 

Down Time: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL 

2018

Sundown, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

Xaviera Simmons: Convene, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY

Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 

Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks, MassArt, Boston, MA Unthought Environments, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL 

Out of Easy Reach, Rebuild Foundation, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL This Imperfect Present Moment, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 

Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 

tête-à-tête, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Echoes: Reframing Collage, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL 

People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC 

For Freedoms, 50 State Initiative, Aberdeen, SD 

Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting, NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 

2017

Overlay, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

We Are The Common (Project/Performance), Cambridge Commons, Cambridge, MA

Flux Exchange, Flux Projects, Atlanta, GA

Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 

Prospect 5, New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans, LA

La Terre Inquieta (The Restless Earth), Fondazione Nicola Trussardi and Fondazione Triennale, Milan, Italy 

Excerpt: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

You Are Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 

Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 

Power, Sprueth Magers, Los Angeles, CA 

Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 

The Stand, P!, New York, NY 

Time as Landscape: Inquiries into Art and Science, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 

Migrations, Ulises Books, Philadelphia, PA 

No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL 

American African American, Phillips, London, UK 

Entering the Landscape, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada Out of Easy Reach, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL 

Lack of Location is My Location, Koenig & Clinton, Brooklyn, NY 

2016

The Gold Miner’s Mission to Dwell on the Tide Line, The Museum of Modern Art – The

Modern Window, Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, New York, NY

CODED, The Kitchen, New York, NY

Local, Half Gallery, New York, NY

tête-à-tête, curated by Mickalene Thomas, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Artist’s Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 

Where Do We Migrate To?, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 

Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL 

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC 

Race, Love, and Labor, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 

30 Americans, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH 

tête-à-tête curated by Mickalene Thomas, Aperture, New York, NY The Grace Jones Project, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA Revolution:Reflection Lauryn Hill Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts, Brooklyn, NY 

Woven, Deutsche Bank, 60 Wall Gallery, New York, NY

Carried Weight, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE 

Blue Jean Baby, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, NY 

Danger Came Smiling: Feminist Art and Popular Music, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT 

2015 

Xaviera Simmons: Index Seven, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Dark Sound Blue, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA Xaviera Simmons: Accumulations, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY 

Xaviera Simmons: Number 16, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Number 16, Urban Video Project, Syracuse, NY

NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL 

Inside:Out UBS Art Collection, Curated by Jacqueline Lewis, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL 

Self-Proliferation, Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL 

Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC 

tête-à-tête curated by Mickalene Thomas, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, BE If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Hunter College East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY 30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 

Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 

Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern, The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL 

Poetics of Relation, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL 

Frieze Sounds, London, UK 

When You Cut Into the Present the Future Leaks Out, Bronx, NY 

New New Corpse, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL 

Where Do We Migrate To?, Varmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 

Frieze Sounds, Randall’s Island Park, NY 

Radical Presence, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA 

2014 

Foto, Annin Arts, London, UK 

Race, Love and Labor, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Platz, NY Pier 54, Presented by Friends of the Highline, New York, NY 

Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL 

When the Stars Begin to Fall, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 

Body Doubles, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

Rockaway!, Rockaway Beach Surf Club, Rockaway Beach, NY 

Daughter of Bad Girls, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 

Ghost Nature, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Requiem for the Bibliophile, Museum Of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA Black Eye, Curated by Nicola Vasel 

When the Stars Begin to Fall, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY Draped Down, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY 

Animal Machine, La Box, Bourges France 

2013 

Open, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL 

Underscore, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT Archive as Impetus (Not on View), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Untitled, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT 

Americana, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL 

Tête a Tête, curated by Mickalene Thomas, QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary At, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY 

Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting, MoCA North Miami, North Miami, FL Un-Drawn, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA 

2012 

This Is Not Just A Dinner, Theertha/ Red Dot Gallery, Colombo Sri Lanka Untitled, 126 Gallery, Gallway, Ireland 

Plant! Seed! Sew! ADAA/Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY 

When You’re Looking At Me, You’re Looking At Country, More Art, New York, NY 

Dark Flow Lurking, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL 

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX 

Primary Sources, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

Emerge Selections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 

A Matter of Practice, curated by Lydia Bell, Danspace Project, New York, NY SuperHUMAN, Central Utah Center, Ephraim, UT; Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ 

What Do You Believe In, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, New York Photo Festival, New York, NY 

Twisted Sister, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY 

Americana, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL 

Tête a Tête, curated by Mickalene Thomas, QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary At, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY 

Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting, MoCA North Miami, North Miami, FL Un-Drawn, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA 

Tête-à-tête, curated by Mickalene Thomas, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY Tête-à-tête, curated by Mickalene Thomas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL The Record, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 

Where Do We Migrate To, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at the New School, New York, NY

The Record, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL 

Where Do We Migrate To, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 

2011 

Salt 4, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT 

Studio! Studio! (Chelsea), More Art, New York, NY 

Wilderness, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY 

Exhibition A, exhibitiona.com, New York, NY 

The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C 

Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC 

After Destiny The Contemporary American Landscape, Flanders Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC 

Sum of the Parts, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL 

Oceanomania: Souveniers from a Mysterious Sea, Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Monaco 

The Record, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA 

Flux This! with Pope L. and Special Guests, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 30 Americans, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC 

Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, The Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC 

Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, The Bronx Museum Of Art, NY 

Why Do We Migrate, The Center For Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD Stephen Burkes: Are You A Hybrid, The Museum Of Art and Design, New York, NY 

2010 

(Harvest): Any Number of Myths and Stories, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL Junctures (Transmissions To), The Goethe-Institute/ The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 

Limited Editionn, Art in General, New York, NY 

Greater New York, PS.1, New York, NY 

The Record, The Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC Compass NY, Avant Guide To NY, Apext Art and The Storefront For Art and Architecture, NY 

Open Score Variations, Hessel Museum Of Art and CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY 

Group Show, Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, NY 

The Reach of Realism, MoCA, North Miami, FL 

30 Seconds Off An Inch, The Studio Museum In Harlem, NY 

2009 

Performance: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 

Oscillation: For A Minute There, I Lost Myself, The Museum of Art And Design, NY, NY 

Foto Festival, Images Recalled, Curated by Tobias Berger, Heidelberg, Germany

In Practice, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY 

Incheon Women’s Artist Biennial, Incheon, Korea 

“Wrong” Eighth Veil Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

Signs Taken For Wonder, Curated by Isolde Breielmaier, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, NY 

Negritude, Exit Art, NY, NY 

We The People, Context Gallery, Derry, Ireland 

2008 

The Tunnel Room, John Connelly Presents, NY, NY

Perspectives 157, Electric Relaxation: Digital Good Time, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX 

30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL 

T.error, Your Fear Is An External Object, Kunsthalle, Budapest-Menu Point, Budapest, Hungary 

Untitled, John Connelly Presents, NY, NY 

Facing Race: Four African-American Artists Speak Out, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH 

Street Art, Street Life, The Bronx Museum Of Art, Bronx, NY 

Richard Wright at 100, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX 

Whitney Art Party, The Whitney Museum Of Art, NY, NY 

Re-Imagine Kenya, Sikkema Jenkins &Co, NY, NY 

Mixtape, Exit Art, NY, NY 

Show One, Kate Werble Gallery, NY, NY 

Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA 

2007 

The Hustle Never Stops in Lagos (et al), The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA 

The FM Ferry Experiment, (programmed by NeuroTransmitter), Staten sland Ferry, NY, NY 

Interpreting Utopia, Samuel Dorsky Museum Of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY A New Era Americana, (Corona Plaza) The Queens Museum, Queens, NY The Postmillennial Black Madonna, MOCADA, New York, NY 

Shaken Not Deterred, Curated By Brian Keith Jackson, NY, NY 

“A Jamaica Queens Thing,”, The Jamaica Center For Arts And Learning,NY, NY Open Studio, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

2006 

How to Break Your Own Heart, Art In General, New York, NY 

Landscape: Expanded Engagement, Extended Space, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY 

Black Alphabet (Contexts In Contemporary African American Art), Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, Poland 

Peekskil Project, Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY E7, Aljira Center for Art, Newark, NJ 

Harlem Art Project, Saatchi and Saatchi, New York, 

Curators Choice, Scope Art Fair, curated by Franklin Sirmans, NY 

Performance Art Fair, curated by Dean Dedirko 

First Open, Christies, New York, NY 

When Artists Say We, Artist Space, New York, NY 

This Strangest Of Theatres, Roebling Hall, New York, NY 

Artificial Afrika, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY 

From The Living Room, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Art Basel, Miami 

2005 

Frequency, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY 

Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center For Arts and Learning 

Video Show, Takt Kuntsprojectraum, Berlin, Germany 

The Politics Of Care, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 

Whitney Museum ISP Open Studio, New York, NY 

African Queen, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY 

Shorts Of The Self, Art In General, New York, NY 

2004 

Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY 

re source, Art In General, New York, NY