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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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[Group]
NOME Gallery (Berlin, DE)
Are We There Yet?
14 Feb 2025 – 12 Apr 2025
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[Group]
Express Newark (Newark, NJ)
Powers of the Unseen
25 Feb 2025 – 31 July 2025
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[Solo]
Henry Art Gallery
23 August 2025 – 26 Apr 2026
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Black Earth Study Club: Speculative Diagramming Workshop with Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Swiss Institute
(Saturday) 15 March 2025
2pm

History Lessons Artist Talk Featuring Kameelah Janan Rasheed
University of Albany - Art Museum
(Wednesday) 12 March 2025
4:30pm

Dark Opacities Lab's 2024-2026: Nazar, Capture, Liberation: Maryam Kashani x Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Concordia University
(Thursday) 20 February 2025
5pm

Lang Arts Spring Welcome - Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Learning, Play, and Curiosity
The New School
(Wednesday) 12 February 2025
6:30pm

Becoming NEW: Artists on Change and Transformation
New Museum (offsite: The Great Hall at Cooper Union)
(Thursday)
6 February 2025
6:30pm

PROMPTS

[FERAL SEEDS 01]: Lines of Transmission Posted in public spaces outside The Kitchen at Westbeth and throughout surrounding areas determined by overlaying isolated design notations found in The Kitchen Archives on a map of Lower Manhattan

WILL Y0U HELP ME FIND NEW WORDS? my words are growing lonely and they desire the company of others. Other than these words I am writing to you now, I seem to have lost all my words. During each cycle, I will use the words you have gifted me to create new sentences.

Cycle #1: Published on 23 January 2024 (gift requests made digitally via social media)

Cycle #2: Published on 1 May 2025 (gift requests made via physical tear-off flier posted on campus bulletin boards as part of Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB until 27 Apr 2025)

TEACHING

Yale University School of Art

Crit (Spring 2025)
My Word is the Fourth Dimension (Spring 2025)

Thesis (Fall 2024)
Body, Space, Time (Fall 2024)

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)

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

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