Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Alette Simmons-Jiménez, a Miami-based, multi-media artist exploring the interconnected human/nature experience, has maintained a five-decade long rigorous international art practice while also creating long term projects that engage community.

She has exhibited widely in museums, galleries, and media festivals in the USA, France, Spain, Dominican Republic, China, Saudi Arabia, and Honduras.

The artist recently attended residencies at Es Baluard Museum, Majorca, Spain, and Residence D’Artiste Ifitry in Essaouira, Morocco. She is a recipient of a Knight Arts Grant, a Florida Artists Enhancement Grant, and MIA Grant and Florida Fellowship Grant. After winning 1st Prize in Video at the XVIII Biennial (1992) in Santo Domingo, she was honored as the first artist to exhibit Video Installation in that country.