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

Visiting Artist Lectures

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)
• “of things not seen” Workshop Series at CCS Bard
• “Live Installation + Q&A.” Workshop, CCS Bard Galleries - Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, April 23, 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)
• “Exodus Commission: Kameelah Janan Rasheed, ‘July 1, 1983.” Lecture, Denniston Hill/Triangle Arts, Brooklyn, NY, November 14, 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)
• “Second Sundays: Primitive Hypertext Lab,” Workshop, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, February 10, 2019 (link)

2018

• “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)
• “Artist’s Eye: Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Lecture, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, August 12, 2017 (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)
• “Audio Interference 15: Solidarity, Distribution, Design.” Panel, Interference Archive (Podcast), May 30, 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)