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About: John Sims

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John Sims, a Detroit native, Sarasota-based conceptual artist, writer, and social justice activist, creates art and curatorial projects spanning the areas of installation, performance, text, music, film, and large-scale activism, informed by mathematics, design, the politics of white supremacy, sacred symbols/anniversaries, and poetic/political text. For 20 years he has been working on the forefront of contemporary mathematical art and leading the national pushback on Confederate iconography. Currently, he is Artist in Residency La Mama Experimental Theatre Club and at the Ringling Museum of Art, where he developed the performance piece 2020: (Di)Visions of America. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC News, USA Today, NPR, The Guardian, ThinkProgress, Al Jazeera, Art in America, Sculpture, Science News, Nature and Scientific American. He has written for CNN, Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post, Guernica Magazine, The Rumpus, and TheGrio.

Posts by John Sims:

  • From the Chambers: A Memorial to a Creative Space  September 16, 2022 by John Sims in Project

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  • Athena LaTocha, The Remains of Winter

    Athena LaTocha, The Remains of Winter

  • Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone

    Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone

  • Nicole Eisenman: Untitled (Show)

    Nicole Eisenman: Untitled (Show)

  • Nari Ward: I’ll Take You There; A Proclamation

    Nari Ward: I’ll Take You There; A Proclamation

  • Liz Larner: Don’t put it back like it was

    Liz Larner: Don’t put it back like it was

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