Interdisciplinary artist-educator and learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, explores themes of language, memory, and the production of Black knowledge through her large-scale text-based installations, videos, sound works, and drawings. Her work interrogates historical narratives and archives.

Rasheed has had solo exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Kunstverein Hannover, among other institutions, and her awards include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship and 2022 Creative Capital grant. Additionally, she is the author of five artist books, founder of the consultant business and microgrant organization Orange Tangent Study, and founder of the digital archive Black Orbits. Listen to Rasheeds featured talk as part of the University Art Museum's exhibition "History Lessons." 

Supported by the University Auxiliary Services at Albany Image credit: Christopher Gregory for The New York Times. Hosted by: University Art Museum