BEVERLY SEMMES

BEVERLY SEMMES (b. Washington, D.C., 1958) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work incorporates sculpture, painting, drawing, film, photography, performance, and fashion. Based in New York, the artist was recently honored with a major survey exhibition at her alma mater, Tufts University, and has had solo exhibitions at MOCA Cleveland (2025); JOAN, Los Angeles (2022); the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2019); The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo (2000); the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1996); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995); and the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA (1993) among others. Work is currently on view in Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations at the Brooklyn Museum and Fabricated Imaginaries at the Rose Art Museum Brandeis University.  Her work was recently included in group exhibitions Fictions of Display at MOCA LA, Los Angeles (2025), Generations: 150 Years of Sculpture at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; traveling in She Said, She Said: Contemporary Artists from the Rubell Collection, and Witch Hunt at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2021). Semmes' work can be found in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, among others. Semmes received her MFA in Sculpture (1987) from the Yale School of Art and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1982), where she has served on the Board of Governors since 2000.