Shawn Simmons

Shawn C. Simmons studies modern and contemporary art with a focus on postwar practice in Britain and the United States. His research interests include conceptual art, queer and feminist art histories, archival studies, and visual cultures of science and technology. His current research project examines the use of mapping and embodiment in the work of artists including Susan Hiller and David Wojnarowicz. He holds a B.A. in Art History with a minor in Urban Design and Architecture Studies from New York University, and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Colorado Boulder. As a 2023 Rough Gems curatorial fellow at Union Hall (Denver), he curated Against Nature, a group exhibition of five U.S.-based artists engaging with queer ecology.

Shawn currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Contemporaneity, a scholarly, peer-reviewed online publication edited by graduate students in the Department of History of Art & Architecture.