Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison (b. 1981, Berkeley, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and special projects at LAXART, Los Angeles (2013); RISD Museum, Providence (2015); the Museum of Modern Art (2015); MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2016); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2018); the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); and the Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati (2021), among others.
Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum; the Stedelijk Museum; and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Since 2016, Jemison has been a part of the musical collaborative Mikrokosmos with Justin Hicks.
I would describe my interests as formal, in the sense that I'm engaged with histories of forms, rather than with representation, rather than with reference as a starting point.
- Steffani Jemison