She stewards KJR Studios , where she studies the poetics and politics of non-compliance and disobedience across written , spoken , and visual communication systems. She makes ( language-saturated installations ) , ( film/video ) , ( performance-adjacent improvisational artist talks ) , ( libraries ) , ( software ) , ( paranormal fiction stories and loglines ) , ( learning environments ) , ( stand-up comedy sets ) , ( wayward translations ) , ( devotional kits ) , ( walking paths ) , ( theremin compositions ) , and ( photographs )



Press



︎2024
[Podcast]: London, Barbara. “Barbara London Calling” Season 3.05. Interviewed by Barbara London. December 10, 2024 

[Review]: Campbell, Andy. “Andy Campbell on Kameelah Janan Rasheed.” Artforum, October 2024 
[Review]: “Kameelah Janan Rasheed ‘i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter’ at REDCAT, Los Angeles.” Mousse Magazine, August 2, 2024

[Review/Mention]: Neidich, Warren, “Not Everything is Given, Whitney ISP, New York.” 02, Winter 2024

[Essay]: Stevens, M. Charlene, "Kameelah Janan Rasheed Embraces the Unknowable." Hyperallergic, January 4, 2024 

︎2023
[Essay]: Dukes, Rachel. "Abstract language and sacred knowing, Using her body as a writing instrument, Kameelah Janan Rasheed devises a new language." Chicago Reader, November 6, 2023 

[Interview]: Schmidt, Carolin. “Repetition creates a rhythm for possibility.” Berlin Art Week, August 03, 2023
︎2022
[Essay]: Roberson, Jehan L. "“Come Think With Me”: Finding Communion in the Liberatory Textual Practices of Kameelah Janan Rasheed," Criticism: Vol. 64: Iss. 3, Article 21. 2022

[Interview]: _____ With Letters: A Conversation with Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Paul Benzon in conversation with Kameelah Janan Rasheed
ASAP/Journal - Johns Hopkins University Press
Volume 7, Number 2, May 2022

[Interview]: Coleman, Nancy; Guadagnino, Kate; La Force, Thessaly; Miller, M. H. and Mallika Rao. “Letters to an Artist.” The New York Times, April 24, 2022.

︎2021
[Art 21 Documentary]: Hawks, Carrie, Rose Bush, and Diana Larrea. Art 21: The Edge of Legibility, Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Art 21, 2021.

[Interview]: Acheampong, Michelle, “Kameelah Janan Rasheed on Learning and Unlearning,” Art in America, July 1, 2021.

︎2020
[Show Review]: Wuensch, Michaela. “Mathematik, Schwarzer Nihilismus und Afropessimismus Michaela Wünsch über Kameelah Janan Rasheed in der Galerie Nome, Berlin.” Texte Zur Kunst, May 22, 2020.

[Show Review]: Liberty, Megan N. “Review of Kameelah Janan Rasheed at Brooklyn Historical Society, New York.” ArtReview (January 2020).

︎2019
[Profile]: Wollen, Audrey with photography by Aubrey Mayer. “Kameelah Janan Rasheed Rewrites the Role of Language.” Cultured Magazine, November 26, 2019.

[Mention]: Raicovich, Laura. “Why Libraries Have a Public Spirit That Most Museums Lack.” Hyperallergic, November 7, 2019.

[Review]: Jacobs, Julia. “A Sound-and-Art Show Fills a Void for Muslims in Brooklyn.” New York Times, September 9, 2019.

[Interview]: Halpert, Juliana. “Kameelah Janan Rasheed talks about her work at the Brooklyn Public Library.” Artforum.com, April 1, 2019.

︎2018
[Mention/Review]: Moffitt, Evan. “What Can't Be Read.” Frieze, Issue 192 (January - February 2018).