KJR Studios

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

Brooklyn | Berlin | Johannesburg



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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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︎ PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
[Workshop]
The 8th Floor (New York, NY)
When Fred Moten asks “Is there an underground railroad in the sentence?”: Writing Workshop led by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
12 November 2024 | 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
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︎ EXHIBITIONS
[Group]
8th Floor (New York, NY)
Scrawlspace
19 September – 7 December 2024
Curators: Lucia Olubunmi R. Momoh and Emily Alesandrini
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︎ TEACHING
Yale University School of Art
Body, Space, and Time (Fall 2024)
Sculpture Thesis (Fall 2024)
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)



[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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