Kameelah Janan Rasheed has been awarded the 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (with support from the State of Berlin).
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (*1985, East Palo Alto, California, US) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. In her artistic practice Rasheed focuses on topics such as intertextuality, literacy, archiving, and ecology. She explores Black experimental poetics, vernaculars, and non-linearity as ways of narrating Black experience and thinking about modes of learning/unlearning. The artist is also the founder of Mapping the Spirit, a digital archive that documents Black spiritual life in the US through interviews, photography, video, and ephemera.
In her artistic practice, Rasheed seeks methods to recast meanings and explores the question of how we read on the one hand and how we ourselves want to be read and understood on the other. She examines language for being incomplete, illegible, and constantly in flux. To do this, Rasheed deconstructs and reconstructs the meaning of literary and scientific texts, experimenting with proportions, syntax, and punctuation. Text excerpts thus become fragmented collages that are either drawn or printed on the wall of an exhibition space or presented on billboards.
Rasheed’s work has been exhibited in the US at the Brooklyn Museum; the New Museum; MASS MoCA; the Queens Museum; the Bronx Museum; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; the Brooklyn Public Library; and the Brooklyn Historical Society, among others. Her work has been exhibited internationally at NOME; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow; Kunsthalle Wien; Bétonsalon Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Artspace Peterborough; the 57th Venice Biennial; and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, among others. Her public installations have appeared at Ballroom Marfa; the Brooklyn Museum; For Freedoms x Times Square Art, New York; Public Art Fund, New York; Moody Center for the Arts, Houston; The California Air Resources Board; and several others.
The exhibition which is part of the award will open at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in September 2023.
2020 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (with support from the State of Berlin)
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