Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by faculty member and New York City-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is an artist, writer and former public school social studies teacher. Through immersive text-based installations, large-scale public text pieces, publications, sound projects and discursive programming, her work engages with both figurative and literal language to explore how we narrate the connections between the past, present and future. In her interdisciplinary and research ­intensive practice, she considers ideas of selective legibility and opaqueness as a political strategy; the tension between narrative contingencies and narrative resolutions; as well as black traditions of covert literacies and self-publishing. A 2006 Amy Biehl U.S. Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, Rasheed holds an EdM (2008) in Secondary Education from Stanford University as well as a BA (2006) in Public Policy and Africana Studies from Pomona College. She has exhibited her work at Jack Shainman Gallery, Studio Museum in Harlem, Bronx Museum, Queens Museum, BRIC Art Gallery, Weeksville Heritage Museum, Project Row Houses, Smack Mellon Gallery, Vox Populi Gallery, MoCADA, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Leroy Neiman Gallery and the Soap Factory, among others. Currently, she is an artist in residence at Smack Mellon and on faculty at SVA.