Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison (b. 1981 in Berkeley, CA, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She uses time-based, photographic, and discursive platforms to examine "progress" and its alternatives. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at MASS MoCA, Western Front, Nottingham Contemporary, Jeu de Paume, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Drawing Center, LAXART, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and others. Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Kadist. Jemison has completed numerous artist residencies and fellowships, including the Rauschenberg Residency, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, the Studio Museum in Harlem AIR, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is the 2017-2018 Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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