School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection + Archives (2022)
Barnard College (2022)
Duke University (2022)
Rutgers University - Mason Gross School of the Arts (2022)
Pratt Institute (2021)
University of Arkansas (2021)
Yale University (2021)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts (2021)
Rhode Island School of Design (2021)
Piet Zwart Institute - Willem de Kooning Academy (2020)
University of Texas at Austin (2020)
Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago (2020)
Tufts University (2020)
Hampshire College (2018)
Parsons School of Design, The New School (2018)
Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art (2017)
Columbia University (2017)
University of Maryland (2017)
Northwestern University (2017)
The New School (2016)
School of Visual Arts - MFA (2016)
Readings and Performances
“Spring 2022 Workshop Reading.” Reading, Poetry Project, remote, New York, NY, June 13, 2022 (link)
“Poetry: Five Bodies,” Nottingham Contemporary, Online, February 11, 2021 (link)
Improv Level 1 Graduation Performance, Magnet Theater, New York, NY, 2019
Reading for The Poetry Project: Camonghne Felix & Kameelah Janan Rasheed, New York, NY, November 10, 2017 (link)
“Dial-A-Poem Radio Marathon,” Red Bull Arts, New York, NY, July 29, 2017 (link)
“Art After Trump: a response and a gathering,” Housing Works Bookstore Cafe and Hyperallergic, December 15, 2016 (link)
“I’m New Here, Can You Show Me Around,” Comedy Performance, Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY, July, 13, 2016 (link)
Additional Lectures, Presentations, Workshops, and Symposia
2024
“Untitled.” Keynote, CODEX Book Fair and Symposium, Berkeley, CA, February 2024 (link)
2023
“Kimberly Drew, Kimberly Annece Henderson, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed in Conversation.” Panel, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, February 7, 2023 (link)
“The Hollow was Electric: Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Asiya Wadud, Serubiri Moses, and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves.” Performance Lecture, Center for Art, Research and Alliances, New York, NY, March 4, 2023 (link)
“ICP Talks: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.” Moderator, International Center for Photography, New York, NY, April 18, 2023 (link)
“Workshop on Generative Art, Architecture, and Engineering Collaboration.” Panelist, Cooper Union, New York, NY, April 22, 2023 (link)
“Moving Chains: Toward Abolition – Abolition and the Law Panelists: American Artist, Albert Fox Cahn, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, moderated by Che Gossett.” Creative Time, New York, NY, May 20, 2023 (link)
“Art, Ancestors, Ghosts, & The Dead A Day Of Conversations and a Screening.”
Protocinema, New York, NY, June 3, 2023 (link)“Xerox Art.” Workshop, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, June 10, 2023 (link)
2022
“Revision, Molting, and [Un]Doing.” Keynote Lecture, Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference (as part of Printed Matter Art Book Fair), New York, NY, October 14, 2022 (link)
“A Necessary Collapse.” Lecture, RISD Center for Complexity and Strategic Programs, Providence, RI, September 21, 2022 (link)
“You Have My Word.” Workshop, Poetry Project, New York, NY, September 8, 2022 (link)
“Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch.” Panel, The New School: Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, NY (link)
Kameelah Janan Rasheed in Conversation with NYU Libraries.” Workshop, New York University (Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Gallatin School of Individualized Study), New York, NY, May 5, 2022 (link)
“Algorithmic Book-Making.” Workshop, New York University (Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Gallatin School of Individualized Study), New York, NY, May 4, 2022 (link)
“Artist Talk and Workshop with Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Workshop, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, April 30, 2022 (link)
“Words Walking Without Masters”: Conversations on the Creative-Theoretical.” Panel, Cornell University, remote, April 21-22, 2022 (link)
“The Education of the Un-Artist.” Panel, EXPO Chicago, remote, April 8, 2022 (link)
2021
“Pratt Photography Talk Series,” Lecture, Pratt University Fall 2021 Series, 1 December 2021 (link).
“Xerography. Women Artists 1965-1990,” Symposium, Institut National d’histoire de l’art, 18-19 November 2021 (link)
“(Mis)Organizing Information: Keynote with Shannon Mattern” Information+ Conference 2021, Remote, 27 September 2021- 2 October 2021 (link)
“Love Café,” Workshop, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, July 22, 2021
“Study Cycle,” Workshop, The University of the Arts and Ulises, Philadelphia, PA, June 30, 2021 (link)
“On the Poetics, Politics, and Pleasures of the Unfinished.” Lecture, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, April 22, 2021 (link)
“The Computer Mouse Conference.” Panel, Culture Hub, remote, April 29–30, 2021 (link)
“Berlin/NY Artist Dialogue.” Panel, Barnard College, New York (remote), March 31, 2021 (link)
“in awe of geometry & mornings.” Panel, White Columns, New York (remote), March 6, 2021 (link)
“Caring Infrastructures, Survival Strategies.” Panel, ARCO, Madrid (remote), February 3, 2021 (link)
NIGHT SCHOOL Workshop Series at CUE Art Foundation
“Approximation: Deepfakes, Archeological Forgeries, and Magical Potions.” Workshop, CUE Art Foundation (remote), January 29, 2021 (link)
“Collaborative Writing: Algorithmic Text Generation, Ouija Boards, and Distributed Authorship.” Workshop, CUE Art Foundation (remote), January 22, 2021 (link)
“Nonhuman Countersurveillance: Vibrating Hawk Moth Genitalia and Whispering Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys.” Workshop, CUE Art Foundation (remote), December 18, 2020 (link)
2020
“Are You Reading Closely?” Workshop Series at the Brooklyn Museum
“Are You Reading Closely?” Workshop, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (remote), December 17, 2020 (link)
“Are You Reading Closely?” Workshop, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (remote), November 19, 2020 (link)
“Shifter: Waiting.” Lecture, MIT List Visual Arts Center and Contemporary Arts Center (remote), November 12, 2020 (link)
“Poetics, Politics, and Pleasure of the Unfinished.” Lecture, Vancouver Art Book Fair (remote), October 18, 2020 (link)
“Studio LIVE: Kameelah Janan Rasheed x Legacy Russell.” Conversation, The Studio Museum in Harlem (Instagram Live) October 8, 2020 (link)
“Morgan Bassichis: ‘The Odd Years’ Book Launch.” Panel, The Kitchen, New York, September 21, 2020 (link)
“Present! V.3.0.0 with Kameelah Janan Rasheed, RA Washington, and Tamara Sussman.” Panel, P! And FRONT International (remote), September 7, 2020 (link)
“Tolstoy College Symposium.” Symposium, University of Buffalo Art Galleries (remote), August 20, 2020 (link)
“Pattern Recognition: A conversation with Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Chang Yuchen.” Panel, CUE Art Foundation (remote), July 30, 2020 (link)
“perhaps there is no sequel.” Performance with artist Jawwaad, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, February 18, 2020 (link)
“Ways of Reading.” Symposium, KADIST and e-flux, New York, February 1, 2020 (link)
“No New Theories Book Launch.” Panel, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, January 30, 2020 (link)
2019
“A Casual Mathematics.” Lecture, S A V V Y Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, November 27, 2019 (link)
“The Black Embodiment Studios.” Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, November 15, 2019 (link)
“Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Scoring the Stacks (Experiment II).” Workshop, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, October 25, 2019–December 15, 2019 (link)
“Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies into Darkness - closing event.” Panel, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, September 21, 2019 (link)
“Studio Salon: Storytelling Saturdays with Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Workshop, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, September 21, 2019 (link)
“Launch of Michel Obultra 2: Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Lecture, Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn, NY, August 28, 2019 (link)
“Eschatology: Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Lecture, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, August 8, 2019 (link)
“Advanced Knowledge Working Group Speaker Series.” Lecture, Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice - Brown University, Providence, RI, April 26, 2019 (link)
“Say it Like You Mean It: On Translation, Communication, Languages.” Panel, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, March 11, 2019 (link)
Scoring the Stacks Workshop Series at Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch
“Scoring the Stacks: ‘This is Not an Artist Talk’/Reflections on Scoring the Stacks.” Lecture, Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch, Brooklyn, NY, April 4, 2019 (link)
“Scoring the Stacks: Artist Walk with Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Workshop, Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch, Brooklyn, NY, March 23, 2019 (link)
“Scoring the Stacks: From Score to Choreography.” Workshop, Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch, Brooklyn, NY, March 10, 2019 (link)
“Scoring the Stacks: Score Goes Pop!” Workshop, Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch, Brooklyn, NY, February 28, 2019 (link)
“Scoring the Stacks: From Score to Speculative Lit.” Workshop, Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch, Brooklyn, NY, February 12, 2019 (link)
“Scoring the Stacks: Opening Event.” Workshop, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, January 12, 2019 (link)
“Code, Craft, And Catalogues: Art in the Libraries.” Symposium, The Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, March 9, 2019 (link)
“CAG Artist Talk: Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Lecture, Contemporary Art Gallery - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, February 16–17, 2019 (link)
“Message from the Library with William Kentridge.” Lecture, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY, December 9, 2018 (link)
“A Convening on Black Institution-Building.” Symposium, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 10, 2018 (link)
“Community Celebration: Something to Say.” Workshop, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, October 6, 2018 (link)
“Opening Celebration: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power - Art as Activism. (Artists Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell in conversation with artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed)” Panel, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, September 15, 2018 (link)
“Space for Learning: Within and Beyond Walls.” Panel and Workshop, New Museum, New York, NY, July 26–27, 2018 (link and link)
ECOSYSTEMS Workshop Series at the New Museum
“Family Meals: Sharing Histories, Sharing Futures.” Workshop, New Museum, New York, NY, June 13, 2018 and September 12, 2018 (link)
“Publishing Center.” Workshop, New Museum, New York, NY, June 7, 2018 (link)
“Library Hours in The Resource Room with Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Lecture, New Museum, New York, NY, May 31, 2018 (link)
“A Conversation on Cultural Appropriation, Representation, and Free Speech.” Panel, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, May 2, 2018 (link)
“Represent: A conversation about representing others.” Panel, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, April 11, 2018 (link)
“Artist Activation: Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Workshop, The Kitchen, New York, NY, February 1, 2018 (link)
2017
“Black Marks That Make up Letters.” Panel, Triple Canopy, New York, NY, December 15, 2017 (link)
“The Kitchen L.A.B.: December 6, 2017.” Panel, The Kitchen, New York, NY, December 6, 2017 (link)
“Conversation and Workshop with Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Workshop, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December 3, 2017 (link)
“Spirit in the Dark: The religious history of racial aesthetics.” Panel, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY, November 29, 2017 (link)
“Radical Edits: Reassessing Cultural Narratives.” Panel, Museum of Modern Art PS1, Queens, NY, November 17, 2017 (link)
“Mapping the Spirit: Kameelah Janan Rasheed with Marilyn Nance.” Lecture, Magnum Foundation, New York, NY, September 27, 2017 (link / link)
“Reading Group.” Workshop, The 8th Floor, New York, NY, April 20, 2017 (link)
“Black Textualities.” Panel, Blonde Art Books Babz Fair 2017, Maspeth, NY, June 3–4, 2017 (link)
“Digital Social Memory Keynote: Ethics, Privacy, and Representation in Digital Preservation.” Panel, Rhizome and The New Museum, New York, NY, February 4, 2017 (link)
“Guerilla Collecting.” Panel, Printed Matter Book Fair/Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2017 (link)
2016
“A More Convenient Season.” Lecture, The 8th Floor, New York, NY, December 8, 2016 (link)
“Triple Canopy at New York Public Library: Planned Wilds and Self-Anointed Prophets.” Panel, New York Public Library, New York, NY, December 7, 2016 (link and link)
“KEA ARK OF NEWARK: A Life in works, Locating the Ark Part 1.” Panel, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, November 5, 2016 (link)
“Archiving as Practice.” Lecture, Recess Art, Brooklyn, NY, July 27, 2016 (link)
“Agora: How will Art Solve Problems?” Symposium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, July 6, 2016 (link)
“The VOLTA Salon 2016: Confronting the Political.” Panel, VOLTA NY, New York, NY, March 4, 2016 (link)
“Art-Making Series: ‘Activating Your Activism #1: Collage Critique.” Workshop, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, January 16, 2016 (link)
2015
“Creative Time Summit 2015 Workshop.” Workshop, Creative TIme, Brooklyn, NY, November 14–15, 2015 (link)
“Memory, History in Zines and Archives with Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Workshop, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, October 11–November 22, 2015 (link)
“Posters + Politics: The Art of Activism in New York.” Panel, Museum of the City of New York and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY, July 8, 2015 (link)
“New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY.” Symposium, New Museum, New York, NY, February 7, 2015 (link)
2013-2014
“Discussion Series: Triple Consciousness: ‘Mythologies of the Diva.’” Panel, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 8, 2014 (link)
“Working in Communities as Artists.” Workshop, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, May 17, 2014 (link)
“No Instructions for Assembly: Case Studies in Radical Archiving.” Panel, Radical Archives Conference, New York University, New York, NY, April 12, 2014 (link)
“The Finding Aid: Black Women Archivists.” Panel, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY, May 21, 2013 (link)
