Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner*, seeker**, and harvester*** from East Palo Alto, CA.
Her middle name, Janan, comes from the Arabic triliteral root (J-N-N / جنان), evoking that which is anticipated yet obscured; tangled but potent; abundant, ephemeral, and unmoored. Moving in the spirit of her name, Rasheed’s work explores the mercurial nature of language, embracing its “unintelligible,” unsanctioned, unseen, and chimeric dimensions.
A neurodivergent**** artist informed by her sensory misfires and abundance, Rasheed explores dirty data, leakage, and excess as revelatory moments that can shape our relationship to knowledge production, preservation, and distribution.