Rosy Simas facts for kids
Rosy Simas is a Haudenosaunee artist. She is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Simas is a dance and transdisciplinary artist and the Founder and Artistic Director of Rosy Simas Danse.
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Choreography
Rosy Simas creates work for stage and installation that unifies movement, time-based media, sound, and sculpture. Since 2012 she has collaborated with French composer François Richomme. Their collaborative works include: We Wait In The Darkness (2014); Skin(s) (2012); Weave (2019); Threshold, a film with photographer Douglas Beasley (2013); and WEave:HERE with Heid E. Erdrich (2019).
Exhibitions
Solo
- We Wait In The Darkness, All My Relations Art, Minneapolis, MN. (2014)
- All My Relations: A Seneca History, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian (2015)
- Blood Lines: Images of Attachments, Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, NY. (2020)
- she who lives on the road to war, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN. (2020)
Group
- SKEW LINES: a residency and installations, Heid E. Erdrich and Rosy Simas. SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. (2019)
- Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power-Lines), Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND. (2019)
- Identity/Identify, Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, NY. (2020-2021)
Honors and awards
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship (2013)
- Twin Cities City Pages Artist of the Year (2014)
- Sage Award for Film and Set Design (2014)
- Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellowship for Choreography (2015)
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2016)
- First People's Fund Artists in Business Leadership Fellow (2016)
- Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation with the Ordway Center of the Performing Arts (2018)
- Dance/USA Artist Fellowships (2019)
- Twin Cities City Pages Best Choreographer (2020)
- McKnight Fellowship for Choreography (2022)
- United States Artists Artist Fellowship (2022)
- Doris Duke Artist Award (2023)
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