KJR Studios

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner* from East Palo Alto, CA

Brooklyn | Berlin | Johannesburg



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︎ EXHIBITIONS
[Group]
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB (Santa Barbara, CA)
Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language
18 Jan 2025 – 27 Apr 2025
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[Group]
International Center for Photography (New York, NY)
To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography
23 Jan 2025 – 4 Apr 2025
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[Group]
University of Albany - Art Museum (Albany, NY)
History Lessons
27 Jan 2025 – 4 Apr 2025
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[Group]
Artspeak, (Vancouver, Canada)
___a lineage of transgression___
30 Jan 2025 – 30 Apr 2025
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︎ EXHIBITIONS
[Group]
The Kitchen (New York, NY)
Lines of Distribution
21 November 2024– 25 January 2025
Curators: organized by Alison Burstein, Curator, The Kitchen, with Curatorial Advisor Kjersti Solbakken, Curator, LIAF 2024 and Director, Bergen Kunsthall.
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︎ TEACHING
Yale University School of Art
 Crit (Spring 2025)
My Word is the Fourth Dimension (Spring 2025)
The Little Octopus School
Clarice Lispector Reading Group
︎ AWARDS + ANNOUNCEMENTS
Shortlist for Artes Mundi 11
2024 High Desert Test Sites Fellowship
︎ PRESS
︎︎︎ Andy Campbell on Kameelah Janan Rasheed
(Andy Campbell, ArtForum)

︎︎︎ Kameelah Janan Rasheed “i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter” at REDCAT, Los Angeles (Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, Mousse Magazine)

︎︎︎Not Everything is Given, Whitney ISP, New York
(Warren Neidich, 02)



[Group]
8th Floor (New York, NY)
Scrawlspace
19 September – 7 December 2024
Curators: Lucia Olubunmi R. Momoh and Emily Alesandrini
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[Solo]
Anonymous Gallery (New York, NY)
beneath this sentence is a hole* and your words are leaking. i place my mouth at the puncture site, waiting to be engorged by your lactating punctuation
*from Pope. L (Hole Theory, 2002)
13 September – 26 October 2024
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Installation view of Kameelah Janan Rasheed, beneath this sentence is a hole* and your words are leaking. i place my mouth at the puncture site, waiting to be engorged by your lactating punctuation at Anonymous Gallery (September 13-October 26, 2024). Image courtesy of anonymous gallery, New York and NOME Gallery, Berlin. Photography by Installshots.art













[Group]
Multiple Sites (Svolvær, NO)
Lofoten International Art Festival 2024 Gnistsambandet / SPARKS
20 September – 20 October 2024
Curator: Kjersti Solbakken
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[Solo]
REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA)
i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter
27 March – 11 August 2024
Curator: Daniela Lieja Quintanar
Assistant Curator: Talia Heiman

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Installation view of Kameelah Janan Rasheed, i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter at REDCAT (March 27-August 11, 2024). Photo: Yubo Dong, ofstudio. (3rd photograph: Los Angeles Print Shop; 4th, 6th, 9th-12th: Stills from videos)








[Solo]
NOME Gallery (Berlin, DE)
that is complete. and knowledge is another. The logic Behind our gestures: Derived forms “JNN” First meaning attached to the 10th form,: not Seen”.8

26 April – 11 July 2024
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Installation view of Kameelah Janan Rasheed,that is complete. and knowledge is another. The logic Behind our gestures: Derived forms “JNN” First meaning attached to the 10th form,: not Seen”.8 at NOME Gallery (April 26-July 11, 2024). Photo: Giannina Goode and Marjorie Brunet Plaza





[Solo]
KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, Germany)
in the coherence, we weep
14 September 2023 – 7 January 2024 Curator: Sofie Krogh Christensen
Assistant Curator: Linda Franken
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Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2022: Kameelah Janan Rasheed – in the coherence, we weep at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2023; All works: Courtesy the artist and NOME Gallery, Berlin. Photo: Frank Sperling.



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Floor 2