Steffani Jemison

Nottingham Contemporary 2017

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.

Steffani Jemison (b. 1981), "A*ray," 2022. single-channel HD video (color, sound), 29:37 min. Courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and Annet Gelink, Amsterdam. TGM1. Photography by Mitro Hood. Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art.

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

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