Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) explores the poetics, politics, and pleasures of communication through her multidisciplinary practice involving the speculative relationships between written language, surrogacy, and desire. Her work spans immersive installations, public art, publications, performances, and video, with a focus on language as material and immaterial. Recent projects investigate reading and writing as transgressive, erotic acts of ingestion, immersion, enmeshment, and estrangement. Rasheed’s accolades include a 2023 Working Artist Fellowship, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine arts, and a 2022 Creative Capital Award.
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Recent solo exhibitions include institutions such as REDCAT (2024), KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023), Art Institute of Chicago (2023), and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). Rasheed is the author of seven artists’ publications and teaches at Yale and the School for Poetic Computation. She founded Orange Tangent Study, a consulting business that provides artist microgrants and The Little Octopus School, an itinerant school that hosts classes, art programming, and a publishing wing called Scratch Disks Full.
Rasheed is represented by NOME Gallery (Berlin, DE).
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