Rose B. Simpson is a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Her work engages ceramic sculpture, metals, fashion, performance, music, installation, writing, and custom cars.

Simpson’s life-work is a seeking out of tools to use to heal the damages she has experienced as a human being in the postmodern and postcolonial era — objectification, stereotyping, and the disempowering detachment of the creative self through the ease of modern technology. These tools are sculptural pieces of art that function in the psychological, emotional, social, cultural, spiritual, intellectual, and physical realms. The intention of these tools is to cure, in that way Simpson hopes that they become hard-working utilitarian concepts.

In the past year, her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including at MASS MoCA (North Adams, Mass.), The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio), the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, Calif.), as well as The Bronx Museum of Arts (New York). Simpson has forthcoming solo exhibitions at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia), and the ICA Boston. Her sculptures are in many museum collections, including the collections of the Denver Art Museum, ICA Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Pomona College Museum of Art (Pomona, Calif.), Portland Art Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Simpson has a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Art, an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She has had recent solo exhibitions at the Wheelwright Museum (Santa Fe, N.M.), the Nevada Art Museum (Reno, N.M.), SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, Ga.), and Pomona College Museum of Art.