Kameelah Janan Rasheed Cv

A.I.R.

KAMEELAH JANAN RASHEED CV

110 New York Avenue, 5K Brooklyn, NY 11216 www.kameelahr.com

EDUCATION

2008 | Stanford University, EdM Secondary Education | Stanford, CA 2006 | Pomona College, BA Africana Studies and Public Policy - Phi Beta Kappa | Claremont, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 How to Suffer Politely (and Other Etiquette), VOLTA Special Project presented by MoCADA, VOLTA Art Fair | New York, NY ABCs, 21ST. Projects: Critical Practices Inc. | New York, NY

2015 Source Material for a Poem I’ve Been Trying to Write about Casual Superlatives, National Progress and Palate Cleansers (as part of the Catalyst: Jerome Fellowship Project), Queens Museum | Queens, NY [catalogue] How to Suffer Politely (and Other Etiquette) | The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts | Brooklyn, NY FUTURE PERFECT/ indices & marginalia | Weeksville Heritage Center Museum | Brooklyn, NY No Instructions for Assembly, Activation VII | Vox Populi Gallery | Philadelphia, PA

2013 No Instructions for Assembly | Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Changing Delineations / Delineating Change, Penn Museum - William Pepper Hall Gallery | Pennsylvania, PA LOL, Trestle Gallery | Brooklyn, NY Shadow Communities, Praterstern | Vienna, Austria Month 2 Month, More Art | New York, NY The Arch of my Eye’s Orbit, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) | Brooklyn, NY Whisper or Shout, BRIC Gallery | Brooklyn, NY At Home in the World, 516 Arts | Albuquerque, NM History As I Know It, On the Ground Floor Gallery | Philadelphia, PA

History As I Know It, iMPeRFeCT Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

2015 Black: Color, Material, Concept, Studio Museum in Harlem | New York, NY Of Gentle Birth, Repair the World | Brooklyn, NY Made in Woodstock VII, Center for Photography at Woodstock | Woodstock, NY Round 43: Small Business/Big Change, Project Row Houses | Houston, TX Things to be Read, 50/50 | Kansas, MO Intimate Archives: Connective Histories, The Leroy Neiman Gallery | New York, NY [catalogue] I THOU, NYU Kimmel Gallery | New York, NY AIM 35 Biennial, Bronx Museum | Bronx, NY [catalogue] Inherited, BRIC Gallery | Brooklyn, NY In Search of One City, Old Stone House | Brooklyn, NY Then & Now, Castle Gallery at the College of New Rochelle | New Rochelle, NY [catalogue] NADA Art Fair (Booth curated by Artadia), Basketball City at South Street on East River | New York, NY Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem | New York, NY RESPOND, Smack Mellon Gallery | Brooklyn, NY Surf Club, Vox Populi Gallery | Philadelphia, PA Ritual//Repeat//Ritual, R. Jampol Projects | New York, NY Bring in the Reality, Nathan Cummings Foundation | New York, NY [catalogue] Then & Now, Center for Book Arts | New York, NY [catalogue] Manifest: Justice, Taskforce at LaBrea | Los Angeles, CA Visualizing Our Americana: Color Polemics, Gateway Projects | New Jersey, NJ

2014 Bartertown (Trading Post XIII: The People's Economy) hosted by Heather Hart, Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY Bartertown (Trading Post XVI: Mesh & Lace) hosted by Heather Hart, DUMBO Arts Festival | Brooklyn, NY i found god in myself, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | New York, NY texttexttext, Woman Made Gallery | Chicago, IL No Longer Empty: If You Build It, Broadway Housing Communities | New York, NY [catalogue] Wish You Were Here 13, A.I.R Gallery | Brooklyn, NY The Time Travel Convention: The Afrofuturist Affair, YELL Gallery | Philadelphia, PA 2013 Workspace Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts | New York, NY

2013 Annual Salon Exhibition, Active Space | Brooklyn, NY Medium/Rare Staff Exhibit, Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY The Gateway Project: “Etiquette for Lucid Dreaming”, Gateway II | Newark, NJ NUTUREart Benefit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery | New York, NY MoMA PopRally: Abstract Currents -- An Interactive Video Event, MoMA | New York, NY

2012 LIVE! The Well&Often Reader, La MaMa Experimental Theater | New York, NY Everything is Index, Nothing is History: A Recession Arts Show, Invisible Dog Gallery | Brooklyn, NY [catalogue] Societies of Fine Art, Five Myles Gallery | Brooklyn, NY Black Vernacular, Dwayne Rodgers | New York, NY There's a Story Here, St. Joseph's College Arts Council | Brooklyn, NY

2011 Collective (R)evolution, The Fridge | Washington, D.C. Faith on the Street, New York Public Library | New York, NY

2010 Love: The Good, The Bad, The Abstract, The Gallery at Harlem PoP | New York, NY For Colored Girls Only, Joyce Gordon Gallery | Oakland, CA

2009 The Saartjie Project’s ‘Homecoming' Celebration, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop | Washington, D.C. Left Forum: Turning Points, Pace University | New York, NY

2007-08 Fourth Annual Fulbright Art Exhibit, Institute of International Education | San Francisco, CA Excavating Motherhood, Brooklyn Artist Gym | Brooklyn, NY Photo Voices: Youth and HIV/AIDS, Artist Proof Studio | Johannesburg, South Africa

PERFORMANCES/READINGS

2015 | Open Text, LMCC Process Space | Governor’s Island, NY 2014 | Show Us Your Junk, Union Hall | Brooklyn, NY

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES

ARTIST TALKS, LECTURES, PANELS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY/PRESS

Sargent, Antwaun. “Enter an Immersive Environment Crafted out of Black History.” VICE: The Creators Project, March 7, 2016 Schwendener, Martha. “At the Studio Museum in Harlem, 4 Shows Engage a Cultural Conversation.” The New York Times, January 7, 2016 Palmer, Lauren. "20 Emerging Female Artists to Keep on Your Radar.” Artnet, December 8, 2015 Roundy, Bill. “Art of work: Exhibit tackles income inequality.” Brooklyn Daily, September 12, 2015 Ellen Yoshi, Tani, Jessica Backus and Olivia Jene-Fagon. “Can Art Change the Future for Racial and Ethnic Identity? A Roundtable Conversation.” Artsy, September 8, 2015 Abruzzese, Rob. “New Park Slope art exhibit explores income inequality.” Brooklyn Eagle, September 6, 2015 Ilnytzky, Ula.“Nonprofit group fills empty New York spaces with art.” Christian Science Monitor, August 21, 2015 Lynne, Jessica. “Activating the Archive.” Art Slant, June 10, 2015 Gleisner, Jacquelyn. “The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed.” Art 21 Magazine, April 15, 2015 Camara, J. Assita. "Kameelah Janan Rasheed: 5 Must Read Interviews with Young Black Writers.” Clutch Magazine. October 28, 2014 Misha, Omo. "Art Breaks the Ice in Sugar Hill.” ArtSlant. August 2, 2014 Taylor, Alix. "If You Build it in Harlem.” Hyperallergic. July 30, 2014 Cotter, Holland. "Unlikely Tenants Filling a Neighborhood Vacancy: ‘If You Build It,’ a Local Show Celebrating Local Art.” The New York Times. July 10, 2014 Lynne, Jessica."'If You Build It' Celebrates Harlem Art and Community.” Art-I-Curate. July 3, 2014 Dawson, Jessica."No Longer Empty's 'If You Build It' Opens in Sugar Hill: Group Holds Exhibits In Places That Rarely See Contemporary Art."Wall Street Journal. June 25, 2014 Lang, Carolyn."Black Photography Collective MAMBU BADU Mounts its Ambitious First Exhibit.” Washington City Paper: Arts Desk. June 20, 2014 Transition Magazine. Issue 113 (Spring 2014). Perez, Ashley. "Beautifully Disturbing.” The Rumpus. November 5, 2013 Mooney, Kate. "Afternoon Bites: Victor LaValle, Zorn & Pattan at the Met, Michael Gondry Interviewed, Polvo Returns, and More.” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, October 2, 2013 Hamad, Michael."Kameelah Janan Rasheed's 'No Instructions for Assembly' on Display at Real Art Ways in Hartford." Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2013 Campion, Darren. "Other Histories: An Interview with Kameelah Rasheed.”Paper Journal. June 20, 2013 Recession Art."Artist Interview: Kameelah Janan Rasheed of Everything is Index, Nothing is History.”May 5, 2012 Transition Magazine. Issue 104 (Winter 2011).

PUBLISHED WRITING: Book Chapters

Rasheed, Kameelah. (2014). South African Herb Specialists: Collected Printed Matter. In Public Collectors. New York, NY: Inventory Press. Rasheed, Kameelah. (2011). Lines of Bad Grammar. In I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press.

PUBLISHED WRITING: Interviews, Essays, Etc.

Rasheed, Kameelah. “Carceral State: An Interview with Eric A. Stanley.” The New Inquiry. November 3, 2014 -- “On Loneliness: A Reading List.” Longreads. August 16, 2014 -- “Black Lives Worthy of Elaboration: A Conversation with Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah.” Gawker. June 7, 2014 -- “A Conversation with Roxane Gay.” Specter Magazine. May 2, 2014 -- “A Conversation with Daniel José Older.” Specter Magazine. April 2, 2014 --"All Things Considered": An Interview with Kiese Laymon.” Specter Magazine. December 2, 2013 -- “’Beautifully Disturbing’: An Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz.” Specter Magazine. November 2, 2013 -- “’Here's to the Weird": An Interview with Victor LaValle.’” Specter Magazine. September 2, 2013 -- “A Vessel for Peace: An Interview with Writer Ocean Vuong.” Well & Often Press. February 2, 2013 -- “To Be Vulnerable and Fearless: An Interview with Writer Warsan Shire.” Well & Often Press. November 2, 2012 -- “The Love Child of Frida Kahlo and DMX: An Interview with Safia Elhillo.” Well & Often Press. June 2, 2012 -- “Interview with Speculative Fiction Writer Nnedi Okorafor.” Specter Magazine. January 2, 2012 -- “Interview with Dread Scott / "Make revolutionary art ..."Liberator Magazine. June 29, 2011

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

2015-present | Contributing Editor, The New Inquiry 2014-present | Art Editor, Spook Magazine

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2014 | If We Came From Nowhere Here, Why Can't We Go Somewhere There?, Vivid Solutions Gallery | Washington, DC (co-curator) 2013 | The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | New York, NY (co-curator)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

COLLECTIONS

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | New York, NY Center for Photography at Woodstock / Extended Loan-Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art | New Paltz, NY Center for Book Arts | New York, NY Private Collections