Steffani Jemison
1981 Born in California, based in New York
Education
2009 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA 2008 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
2003 Columbia University, BA awarded magna cum laude
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal, Steffani Jemison
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, Steffani Jemison
Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, Steffani Jemison ArtGenève, Geneva, Switzerland, CAC Geneva
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, Steffani Jemison
2019 Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, Steffani Jemison: Sensus Plenior Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY, Steffani Jemison
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL, Steffani Jemison: New Videos
De Appel, Amsterdam, NL, Decoders / Recorders: Steffani Jemison and Samson Young (dual solo exhibition)
2018 Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL, Revelation
2017 Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, Sensus Plenior (catalogue, shared with CAPC Bordeaux) CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Sensus Plenior
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, Steffani Jemison: Plant You Now, Dig You Later
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, Steffani Jemison: Personal
2016 MoMA.org, New York, NY, Steffani Jemison: Escaped Lunatic NurtureArt, New York, NY, Steffani Jemison: Prime
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, Steffani Jemison: Sol
2015 RISD Museum, Providence, RI, Steffani Jemison: Maniac Chase, Escaped Lunatic, and Personal
BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, Garage Door Video Series: Steffani Jemison
2013 Bindery Projects, Minneapolis, MN, Stroke LA>
2012 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, Such is your luck
Solo Screenings and Performances
2020 Art Rotterdam Projections, Rotterdam, NL, Annet Gelink
NOW Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles, CA, Frieze Week Screenings
2019 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, Recitatif
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, On Similitude
Whitney Museum, New York, NY, On Similitude Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA, Recitatif
2018 Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ, Steffani Jemison: Sensus Plenior Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL, Steffani Jemison: Sensus Plenior Lincoln Center, New York, NY, Artist Spotlight: Steffani Jemison
Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR, presented at Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz, I will make your tongue stick
2017 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, Never Saying Anything at All (So Much Things To Say)
2016 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, Never Saying Anything at All (Quiet Storm) Center for the Humanities, New York, NY, Shift Screenings: Steffani Jemison
2015 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine
2013 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, You Completes Me Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, You Completes Me
Solo Exhibitions, collaborative contribution
2017 Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, Another time, this time, one time (with Justin Hicks)
2013 Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet (with Jamal Cyrus)
2012 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet (collaboration with Jamal Cyrus)
2011 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Museum as Hub: Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet (collaboration with Jamal Cyrus)
Solo Screenings and Performances, collaborative contribution
2021 Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mikrokosmos (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks)
2020 Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
NADA Miami, Miami, FL, Kai Matsumiya
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
2019 2018
2017
2016
2020
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, Scrivere disegnando: quand la
langue cherche son autre
La Graineterie, Houilles, France, À voix haute
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize Finalist Exhibition
2019 Whitney Museum, New York, NY, Whitney Biennial 2019 Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Empathy Lab
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Screen Acts Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY, Reset
Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany, Deadwood
Independent Art Fair, New York, NY, Kai Matsumiya
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, Direct Message
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem
Nir Altman, Munich, DE, Sensational and Antigenerative Successions
2018 Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, PT. Body / Building: Augusto Alves da Silva, Werner Feiersinger, Steffani Jemison Ugo La Pietra, Ree Morton
Ma.ma, Toronto, CA, In the Air
Syndicate, Art Athina, 2018, Athens, Greece, 19. Body English
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, Scrivere disegnando: quand la langue cherche son autre
Concordia University Gallery, Details TBA
Albertinum Dresden, Dresden, NL, Mikrokosmos (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks)
De Appel, Amsterdam, NL, Mikrokosmos (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks) Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, Mikrokosmos (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin
Hicks)
Western Front, Vancouver, CN, Mikrokosmos (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks)
Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, Mikrokosmos (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks)
Neue Galerie (festival steirischer herbst), Graz, Austria, Mikrokosmos (with Justin Hicks) Group Exhibitions
Syndicate at Arcade, London, UK, Patio
The Meeting, New York, NY, Another Place and Time
Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN, Out of Easy Reach
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, Out of Easy Reach
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, Unleashing
Spaces, Cleveland, OH, 20/20 Hindsight: 40 Years Anniversary Exhibition DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, Out of Easy Reach
Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz, Paris, FR, Economy of Living Things
2017 Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, Separation Penetrates Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, Not Normal
2016
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, Speech Acts Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Their Own Harlems Good Weather at Syndkt, Cologne, Germany, Never Odd Nor Even The Alice, Seattle, WA, Unstable Objects
The Kitchen, New York, NY, That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to
go on:
Sprueth Magers, Los Angeles, CA, Power
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection
Ulises, Philadelphia, PA, Active Voice
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Window and the Breaking of the Window Brennan and Griffin, New York, NY, Mortal Sequence
Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 20th Anniversary Exhibition
KHOJ, New Delhi, IN, Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger
Bridget Donahue, New York, NY, On Empathy
Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL, PDF-OBJECTS
Gallery Buchholz, New York, NY, 2016 Light Industry Benefit
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection
2015 Reclaim the World, Brooklyn, NY, Of Gentle Birth
Evergreen Gallery, Olympia, WA, Sensations That Announce The Future
The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Name It By Trying To Name It
David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, Five Artists
The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Open Sessions
3 Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, Respond!
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, I See Myself in You: Selections from the Collection
2014 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Crossing Brooklyn
Blanton Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, How the Light Gets In:
Work by Seven Former Core Fellows
The Drawing Center, New York, NY, The Intuitionists (with Heather Hart and Jina Valentine)
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, (n) those that from a distance resemble flies 2007 Penrose Gallery, Elkins Park, PA, Carking It
Group Exhibitions, collaborative contribution
2020 Albertinum, Dresden, Germany, 1 Million Roses (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks) 2019 Tufts University Galleries, Boston, MA, BOOKWORKS (with Jamal Cyrus)
2018 Kadist, Paris, FR, This is Utopia, to some (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks)
Group Screenings and Performances, including collaborative contributions
Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY, Every Act, A Repetition
Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen, Denmark, The West in South Harbor
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY, Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY, Silhouettes
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Things in Themselves
Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, Observer Effect
Team Gallery, New York, NY, Black Cake
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, The Bearden Project
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, Resonance and Repetition Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Fore
McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, Material Difference
Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL, Hang In There
Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, FL, tapando el sol con un dedo
Blanton Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, CORE Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH, A Vague Whole
Unspeakable Projects, San Francisco, CA, This Means War
Blanton Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, CORE Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
Eel Space, Chicago, IL, Gained In Translation
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, MFA Thesis Exhibition
Wayne and Geraldine Kuhn Gallery, Marion, OH, Something About Nothing
UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Wight Biennial 2008: Collaboration as Process and Form
2008
2019 Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2009 – The Blind Spot Is the Most Recent Past. Screening.
La Cueva, Mexico City, MX, Una presentación sobre la insuficiencia de las imágenes Tramway, Glasgow, UK, Artists' Moving Image Festival
2018 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, PopRally Presents Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah: A Woman’s Work (as FORT, with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts). Performance.
Kadist, Paris, France. Steffani Jemison: Listening Session. Screening and listening session.
2017 Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, SE, Revolve: Performance Art Days (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks). Performance.
CK2 Gallery @ École des Beaux-Arts De Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Peppermint Shower Gel The People’s Summit, Chicago, IL, Breakout Sessions: Artist Takes. Screening. Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, Dear Watchers in the Shadows. Screening.
2016 Whitney Museum, New York, NY, Dreamlands: Pain Revisited. Screening.
The Mistake Room, Guadalajara, MX, Pictures That Matter. Screening.
NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY, Mikrokosmos (as Mikrokosmos, with Justin Hicks). Performance. Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL, Citizens: 1971-2014. Screening.
The Poetry Project, New York, NY, Che Gossett and Steffani Jemison. Reading. 2015 The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Blinking, transfixed. Reading.
2014 Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY, The Multifarious Array. Reading.
2011 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, Lets Mots et Les Choses. Reading.
Threewalls, Chicago, IL, An Evening with Future Plan and Program. Reading.
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX, An Afternoon with Future Plan and Program. Reading.
2009 Scott Projects, Chicago, IL, Everything Again. Screening.
2008 Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, Accidental Festival (with Amiel Melnick). Screening.
UnionDocs, New York, NY, Vernon Avenue and Untitled (Hilliard Homes) (with Amiel Melnick). Screening.
Collaborations
Mikrokosmos and Power Listening are collaborations with Justin Hicks. Mikrokosmos is a music study project that creates performances, exhibitions, and albums. Power Listening is a community platform featuring listening sessions and music-making workshops.
FORT is a non-performing dance company featuring Steffani Jemison and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts.
Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet and Book Club are co-organized with Jamal Cyrus. Book Club is a reading and discussion group organized with support from Project Row Houses. Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet is an exhibition platform initiated at the New Museum.
Selected Awards and Residencies
2019-20 Nominee, Herb Alpert Award (pending)
2019-20 Finalist, Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize (pending)
2018 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, Film/Video
2018 Nominee, American Academy in Rome Prize
2017-8 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
2016 Robert Rauschenberg Artist-in-Residence Award
2016 The Jacob Lawrence Gallery Artist-in-Residence
2016 Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award
2015-6 Sharpe-Walentas Residency Studio Program Award
2014-5 Smack Mellon Artist-in-Residence Award
2014 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Hermitage Artist Retreat
2013 Art Matters Foundation Grant
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Hermitage Artist Retreat
2012-3 Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Denniston Hill Artist Colony, Woodridge NY
2012 Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art
2012 Van Lier Fellowship, International Studio and Curatorial Program
2011 Ann Plato Fellowship, Trinity College
2011 The Studio Museum in Harlem StudioLab Artist-in-Residence
2010-1 Project Row Houses Artist-in-Residence
2010 The Wassaic Project Artist-in-Residence
2009-11 Core Program Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2008 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Scholarship
2008 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Skowhegan Matching Scholarship 2007 Flaherty Philadelphia Fellowship, Flaherty Foundation
2003 Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University Chapter
2001-3 Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship
Art Editions and Artist Publications, including Collaboratively-Authored Contributions
2020 Steffani Jemison, On Similitude, published by Triple Canopy, 2020.
2019 Justin Hicks and Steffani Jemison, Another time, this time, one time. Vinyl album, edition of 500. Published by Western Front, 2019.
Steffani Jemison, “Drafts,” Artforum, April 2019. pp. 148-153.
Untitled catalogue essay, Making a Stationary Rain on the Pacific Ocean. Published by CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY. pp. 8-9
2017 SteffaniJemisonandSharifaRhodes-Pitts,“We’llunderstanditbetterbyandby,”inSensus Plenior. Osei Bonsu, editor. Art Book Magazine Distribution, 2017. pp. 12-31
Steffani Jemison, “Eyes, minds, man, thoughts...,” and “I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth” in Sensus Plenior. Osei Bonsu, editor. Art Book Magazine Distribution, 2017. pp. 32- 61
2016 Steffani Jemison, “Utopia,” in Shifter 22: Dictionary of the Possible. Published by Shifter, New York, NY, 2016.
by 2015
2014
2013 Los
2012
2011 NY
Steffani Jemison, “Raw,” in After the Fact. Published by ICP Bard, New York, NY, 2016. Steffani Jemison, “Untitled (Affirmations for Living),” in The Poetry Project #246. Published
The Poetry Project, New York, NY, February-March 2016 (cover).
Steffani Jemison, “I call this one ‘Happiness.’” Digital artwork. Triple Canopy, triplecanopy.com
Steffani Jemison, “Untitled study (hand, oilstick, acetate, cotton, plaster, dust, sun),” in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Vol. 24 Issues 2-3, June-November 2015 pp. 240244
Steffani Jemison, “If I Could” in Vector Journal, Issue #3. Published by Vector, New York, 2014. Steffani Jemison, Same Time: Appendices. Matthew Schum, editor. Published by LA>
Angeles, CA.
Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison, and Jina Valentine. “The Present Classification,” Skowhegan
Journal. Published by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York, 2012. pp. 8-10 Steffani Jemison, editor, Book Club Book. Published by Future Plan and Program, New York,
Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus, editors, The Reader. Co-published by Future Plan and Program and The New Museum, New York, NY, 2011.
Steffani Jemison, “Truth and Greatness” in Two Nonfiction Novellas. Michael Graham, Steffani Jemison, and Khorey Smith, contributors. Published by Future Plan and Program, Houston, TX.
2010
2009
Monument: New York, NY, 2009.
William Cordova and Steffani Jemison, Untitled catalogue essay, “Eco, Xiang, Echo...” Broadsheet published by Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Steffani Jemison, “Artist as Performer,” Art Lies 64 (Winter 2009), pp. 96-97
Steffani Jemison, untitled essay, I Like Your Work: Art and Etiquette. Published by Paper
Steffani Jemison, “Négritude,” Art Lies 63 (Fall 2009), pp. 98-99 Selected Bibliography
2019 Barry Schwabsky. “The Whitney Biennial’s Flimsy Promises,” The Nation, July 22, 2019. Johanna Fateman. “Goings On About Town: Art: Steffani Jemison.” NewYorker.com, May 2019.
Kriston Capps. “The Whitney Biennial Hones in on American Precariousness.” TheAtlantic.com, May 26, 2019. Image.
Mariana Fernandez. “The Whitney Biennial shows the fragmented state of the American political climate.” i-D.com, May 22, 2019.
Holland Cotter. “Critic’s Pick: The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics.” New York Times. May 16, 2019. Print.
Barry Samaha. “What to expect at this year’s Whitney Biennial.” Surfacemag.com, May 16, 2019 Nadja Sayej. “Whitney Biennial 2019: Why is this year’s show so safe?” The Guardian,
May 15, 2019. Image.
Editors. “Spring Preview: The Most Promising Shows and Biennials Around the World.” March
4, 2019, Artnews.com. Image.
2018 Cédric Fauq, “Curating for the age of blackness.” Mousse Magazine, No 66, p. 226-235. Winter 2018-2019.
Jared Quinton. “Critics Pick: Steffani Jemison: Revelation,” Artforum.com. September 2018.
Sarah Cascone. “Editors’ Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week.” Artnet.com, August 14, 2018.
Seph Rodney, “An Exhibition That Frustrates Our Grasp of Abstraction,” Hyperallergic, August 1, 2018.
Bruce Thorn. “Out of Easy Reach,” New Art Examiner, June 2018.
Annalise Flynn-Taylor. “Review: Out of Easy Reach,” Sixty Inches From the Center, May 31,
2018. Lori Waxman. “Abstraction, Explained,” The Chicago Tribune, May 31, 2018. Elliot Reichert. “Art Top 5: June 2018”, New City, May 30, 2018.
Jameson Paige. “Black and Brown and Seen All Over: ‘Out of Easy Reach’ Expands the Limits of Abstraction,” New City, May 15, 2018.
Gary Zidek. “The Arts Section” WDCB 90.9FM, May 6, 2018. Solvieg Nelson, “Out of Easy Reach,” Artforum (print), May 2018.
Julian Kreimer. “Poetics of Relation: Steffani Jemison.” Art in America. April 2018. Mayan Darbyshire. “Art exhibition highlights underrepresented voices,” The Columbia
Chronicle, April 15, 2018.
2017 Thomas Hine. “At ICA Philly: Powerful words about race, and a Memphis Group it-girl's work.”
Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 2017.
Holland Cotter. “A West Coast Spotlight on Latino Artists Leads the Fall Art Season.” New
York Times. September 3, 2017.
Faye R. Gleisser. “Critics’ Pick: Unstable Objects.” Artforum.com, September 2017.
Roberta Smith. “MASS MoCA: It’s a Sight For All Eyes.” New York Times. June 15, 2017. Lizzie Homersham. “LA Round-up” Art Monthly. pp. 35-37. June 2017.
Anna Garner. “POWER at Sprüth Magers.” ArtAndCakeLA.com, April 23, 2017.
Matt Stromberg. “Kara Walker, Karon Davis and the black female artists retelling US history.”
TheGuardian.com, April 5, 2017.
Ben Lerner. “Steffani Jemison.” BOMB. Spring 2017.
2016 Becky Buff Hunter. “Critics’ Pick: Active Voice,” Artforum.com, December 2016.
Jen Graves. “The 196 Moments in Music, Art, Books, Theater, Film, and TV That Helped Us
Survive 2016.” The Stranger. December 20, 2016.
Jacinda Townsend. “We Gather: Reflections on the 2015 CCWW.” Callaloo. Johns Hopkins
University Press, 39:3, pp. 574-575, Summer 2016.
Against 2015
Thomas Lax. "How Do Black Lives Matter in MoMA's Collection?" MoMA.org.
Jen Graves. “Two New Art Shows Foreground the Secret Language of Black Abstraction a White Background.” The Stranger, February 10, 2016.
Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter. Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century, MIT Press: 2015.
Martha Joseph and Thomas J. Lax. “Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine: A Movement in Five Parts.” MoMA.org, 2015.
Jess Wilcox. “Promise Machine: At MoMA, Steffani Jemison explores blackness and utopian thought.” ArtinAmerica.com, June 24, 2015.
Dawn Chan. “500 Words: Steffani Jemison.” Artforum.com, June 23, 2015.
Holland Cotter. “Critic’s Notebook: Raging at Racism, From Streets to Galleries.” The New
York Times. January 22, 2015.
Emily Witt. “Ben Lerner: ‘People say, “Oh, here’s another Brooklyn novel by a guy with glasses.”’
The Guardian. January 3, 2015.
John Haber. “Crossing Brooklyn.” HaberArts.com.
2014 Thomas Miccheli. “The Pursuit of Art,” Hyperallergic. December 27, 2014.
Ben Lerner. “Looking Back on 2014: Selections by Ben Lerner, Jen Rosenblit, and Stanley
Whitney.” BombMagazine.org. December 11, 2014.
Ken Johnson. "The Artist Next Door," The New York Times. October 2, 2014.
Julia Steinhauer. "A Survey of Art from Across Brooklyn," Hyperallergic. October 1, 2014.
Peter Plagens. “Ideology and Art From the Heart of Brooklyn: ‘Crossing Brooklyn’ at the Brooklyn Museum.” The Wall Street Journal. November 7, 2014.
Anya Ulinich. “'Crossing Brooklyn' Scratches Surface of Hyperlocal Potential in Hippest Borough.” Forward. October 28, 2014.
E. Baker "New York – “The Intuitionists” at The Drawing Center Through August 24th, 2014," Art Observed. August 23, 2014.
Margaret Sundell, Joanna Berman Ahlberg, ed. The Intuitionists. Minneapolis: The Drawing Center. 2014.
Ken Johnson. "‘The Intuitionists’ and ‘Small’," The New York Times. July 31, 2014.
Dejha Carrington. "The Intuitionists: an Optimized Narrative," Miami Design District. July 30,
2014.
Stephanie Buhmann. "Buhmann on Art," The Villager Newspaper. July 24, 2014.
"Critics Pick: The Intuitionists," TimeOut New York. July 23, 2014.
Lori Zimmer. "The Intuitionists: a Summer Group Show with Brains," Art Nerd New York. July 9, 2014.
Brian Boucher. "'Crossing Brooklyn' Highlights Borough’s Artists, from Bushwick to Bay Ridge," Art in America. April 23, 2014.
Nathan Young. “Known Unknowns and Steffani Jemison’s Stroke.” MNartists.blog, January 30, 2014.
Chris Roberts. “Art Hounds: David Rathman, Steffani Jemison, and a glimpse into a schizophrenic mind.” MPR News, January 23, 2014.
2013 Andrew Blackley. “Binoculars.” Things in Themselves (exhibition catalogue), July 2013.
Lloyd Wise. “Fore.” Artforum (Print). May 2013.
Thomas Lax. “First Look: Steffani Jemison.” Art in America, May 2013.
Trajal Harrell, Steffani Jemison, Thomas Lax, Ralph Lemon, Okwui Okpokwasili, Wu Tsang. “Feeling Conceptual.” Mousse, April/May 2013.
Blake Gopnik. “Steffani Jemison at the Studio Museum is the Daily Pic.” The Daily Beast, February 13, 2013.
A. Berman. “Black Cake.” Art Observed. January 21, 2013.
Will Heinrich. “‘Black Cake’ at Team Gallery.” New York Observer. January 15, 2013. 2012 Aja H. Merjian. “Fore.” Artforum.com Critics’ Picks, December 2012.
2011
Holland Cotter. “Fore.” New York Times, November 29, 2012.
Sarah Workneh. “Black Contemporary Art.” Art Papers, November/December 2012.
Fore (exhibition catalogue). Studio Museum in Harlem: New York, NY.
The Bearden Project (exhibition catalogue). Studio Museum in Harlem: New York, NY.
Susan Dunne. “Johannes Deyoung, Steffani Jemison, Phil Lique, Laura Marsh At Real Art Ways.” Hartford Courant, April 30, 2012.
Derrick Adams, Terry Adkins, Sherman Fleming, Maren Hassinger, Steffani Jemison, Lorraine O’Grady, and Clifford Owens in conversation with Kellie Jones. Clifford Owens: Anthology, MoMA/PS1: New York, NY.
Nancy Pricenthal. “Clifford Owens: Anthology.” Art in America, January 2012.
Wendy Vogel. “Future Plan and Program,” Flash Art International, January/February 2012. Cora Fisher. “Clifford Owens: Anthology.” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2011/January 2012.
2010
2009 2009.
Brian Fee. “Review: Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet,” Might Be Good, Issue #177, October 28, 2011.
Natasscha Chtena. “Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet @ New Museum,” Think Africa Press, October 20, 2011.
Ryan Inouye and Ethan Swan, “A Conversation with Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus,” newmuseum.com.
Thomas Lax, “Studio Lab,” Studio Magazine, Summer/Fall 2011.
CORE Artist-in-Residence Exhibition (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Fine Arts Houston:
Houston, TX.
Katia Zavistovski. “2011 Core Exhibition,” Art Lies, Issue 67.
Kelly Klaasmeyer, “2011 Core Exhibition,” Houston Press, March 9, 2011.
Ayanna Jolivet McCloud. “The Ten List: 2010 Houston Artist Projects You Might Not Have Heard About,” Core Artist-in-Residence (exhibition catalogue). Glasstire: Texas Visual Art Online, December 2010.
CORE Artist-in-Residence Exhibition (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Houston, TX.
(n) those that resemble flies (exhibition catalogue), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Damien James. “Review: Text off the Page/Sullivan Galleries,” NewCity Art, December 23, UCLA Wight Biennial 2008: Collaboration as Process and Form (exhibition catalogue),
2008
University of California Los Angeles: Los Angeles, CA.
Curated Exhibitions, Programs, and Performances
2019 CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY, Mo Kong: Making a Stationary Rain on the Pacific
Ocean
2015 Skowhegan Space, New York, NY, Hard Work performance series (with Clifford Owens)
2014 The Drawing Center, New York, NY, The Intuitionists (with Heather Hart and Jina Valentine) 2009 Light Industry at No Soul for Sale, New York, NY, I Wish It Were True
2008 Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, MIX: New Performance at MAD (Xaviera
Simmons/Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Martha Colburn, and Sam Amidon)
2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at 15 Nassau, New York, NY, Tyondai Braxton
2005 Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, The Peekskill Project (juror, producer)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New Museum of Contemporary Art at 110 Beekman, New York, NY, Carl Hancock Rux and Greg Tate
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New Museum of Contemporary Art at
110 Beekman, New York, NY, Undisciplined: Race and New Media Art with Keith and
Mendi
Obadike and Rico Gatson
Lectures, Presentations, Workshops and Symposia
2020 Manifesta Parallel Program, as Mikrokosmos with Justin Hicks, Marseille, France
2019
ICA Philadelphia, Visiting Critic, Invited by the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February, 2020
“Steffani Jemison on Pope.L,” Lecture/panel. In relation to the exhibition member: Pope.L 19782001, Museum of Modern Art - Creativity Lab, New York, NY, January 26, 2020
Bodies, Borders, and Fields, Invited presenter, sponsored by Trinity Square Video and Or Gallery, Toronto, CA, November 22-24, 2019
Decoders / Recorders: Steffani Jemison and Samson Young, Exhibition dialogue with
Monika Szewcyzk, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL, July 7, 2019
“Another time, this time, one time,” Workshop co-facilitated with Justin Hicks. De Appel,
Amsterdam, NL, June 27, 2019
“Walkthrough with Steffani Jemison and Mo Kong,” Exhibition walkthrough, CUE Art
Foundation, New York, NY, June 13, 2019
Conversations Among Friends with Salome Asega, Steffani Jemison and Jacolby Satterwhite, Invited panelist, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, May 30, 2019
The Kitchen L.A.B.: Representation, Invited panelist, sponsored by The Kitchen, New York, NY, May 7, 2019
“Plant You Now, Dig You Later,” Invited lecture, Early Black Utopias (symposium), Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 29, 2019
Panel Discussion on “Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Invited panelist, sponsored by American Federation of the Arts, February 12, 2019
2018 “Steffani Jemison: In The Air,” Exhibition lecture, sponsored by Ma Ma, Toronto, CA, November 3, 2018
“Plant you now, dig you later,” Art of Our Time: Black Utopias—Roundtable, Panelist, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, New Orleans, LA, October 17-20, 2018
Abstraction as a Strategy of Refusal: Out of Easy Reach Symposium, Invited artist presentation, sponsored by Grunwald Gallery, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, August 23-
24, 2018
Clay Club, Workshop leader, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, August 18, 2018
“Alpha’s Bet,” Performative lecture, No Guts, No Galaxy Series, in connection with the exhibition RAMMΣLLZΣΣ: Racing for Thunder, Red Bull Arts, New York, NY, August 16, 2018
“Black Utopias,” Invited lecture and workshop, Unlearning Utopias series, sponsored by Shifter, Art in General, New York, NY, March 17, 2018
“Plant You Now, Dig You Later: New Work and Research” Lecture, Sponsored by Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 31, 2018
Conversation with Rizvana Bradley, Economy of Living Things: A Chorus (Symposium), sponsored by Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR, January 28, 2018
“Drafts,” Drawing on John Berger Forum Session, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Invited panelist, New York, NY, January 20, 2018
2017
sponsored by New York City Housing Authority, Atlantic Terminal Community Center, May 26, 2017, June 2, 2017, June 16, 2017, May 27, 2017, and June 10, 2017
“Power Listening,” Workshops co-facilitated with Justin Hicks, Sponsored by JACK, co-
Performing Histories, Roundtable panelist, sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, March 24, 2017
Artist Roundtable, Sustaining the Creative Practice, Panelist, Embedded, Embedding: Artist
Residencies, Urban Placemaking and Social Practice (Symposium), sponsored by Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY February 10, 2017
2016 Photography and the Politics of Representation, Artist presentation, sponsored by Aperture Foundation, the Department of Photography at Parsons the New School for Design,
and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics New York, NY, May 3, 2016
“fala fasi: excellent, the best,” Workshop co-facilitator (with Justin Hicks; two sessions), University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, Washington, January 18, 2016 and January 20, 2016
“apple, acorn, blackberry,” Workshop facilitator (two sessions), University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, Washington, January 7, 2016 and January 11, 2016
2015 Shifting the Frame, Artist presentation, After the Fact: A Symposium, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, December 12, 2015
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Workshop. Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, November 5, 2015
“Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine.” Artist presentation, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, November 4, 2015
The Revolution Will Be Printed, Artist presentation, New York Art Book Fair Annual Conference,
Sponsored by Printed Matter, PS1/MoMA, New York, NY, September 18, 2015
Who Remains? Subjectivity After Identity Politics, Invited panelist, Symposium: Visible/Invisible, sponsored by New Museum, New York, NY, March 7, 2015
“Black Utopias,” Workshop facilitator, Countee Cullen Library, New York, NY, March 5, 2015
“Black Utopias,” Workshop facilitator, Harlem Center for Education, New York, NY, February 26,
2015
“Black Utopias,” Workshop facilitator, Brotherhood SisterSol, New York, NY, February 24, 2015
In Conversation: Jamilah Lemieux, Alexander Provan, Steffani Jemison, and Michael C. Vazquez, Panelist, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, January 22, 2015
2014 Museum,
“No Instructions for Assembly: Case Studies in Radical Archiving,” Panel moderator, Radical Archives (Symposium), sponsored by Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York, NY, April 12, 2014
“Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet,” Workshop facilitator, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis, MN, January 13 – 15, 2014
Roundtables: Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Invited panelist, Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY, May 10, 2014
2013
Institute, New York, NY, January 27, 2013.
46 Objects and 46 Artists for Haim Steinbach, Invited artist presentation, The Artists
Modern
Panel Discussion: Rizvana Bradley, Rujeko Hockley and Steffani Jemison, Panelist, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA, September 21, 2013
The Artist's Voice: Artists in Residence 2012-13: Steffani Jemison, Jennifer Packer, Cullen Washington Jr., Panelist, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, July
18, 2013
A Conversation with the Artists in Residence: Eisa Davis and Steffani Jemison, Artist presentation and conversation, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, April 8, 2013
Observer Effect: Artist's Discussion, Artist presentation, Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 27, 2013
The Artist’s Voice: Fred Moten in conversation with Jamal Cyrus, Steffani Jemison and Harold Mendez, Panelist, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, February 21, 2013
Now Dig This! From Los Angeles to New York, Invited artist presentation, Museum of Art, New York, NY, February 13, 2013
2012
Sponsored by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, DN, August 26, 2012
Workshop facilitator, Summer Print Workshop, co-facilitated with Michael Vazquez,
The Social Space of the Page (Seminar), Panelist, Sponsored by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t
Want
To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, DN, August 25, 2012
“Ann Plato Lecture: Steffani Jemison,” Lecture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, March 15, 2012
2011 “Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet: Book Club,” Workshop facilitator, New Museum and private venues, New York, NY, 2011-2012
Unconventional Residency Programs, Panelist, Hand in Glove (Conference), Chicago, IL, October 21, 2011
“Truth and Greatness,” Artist presentation, Artists/Authors: Future Plan and Program, African American Library at the Gregory School, Houston, TX, April 20, 2011
Slide Jam, Invited artist presentation, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, March 31, 2011 2010 “The Artist’s Eye: Steffani Jemison,” Invited artist presentation, Menil Collection, Houston, TX,
August 1, 2010
“What’s the difference? Surplus Matter, Remainder, and Reenactment,” Thinking About Things (Conference), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 10-11, 2010
2009 “Departmental Lecture: Steffani Jemison,” Artist presentation, Sponsored by the Department of Film, VIdeo, and New Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008
2005
“Vernon Avenue,” Artist presentation, Consuming Race: Shifting Paradigms and the Politics of Race in the 21st Century (Conference), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 3, 2008
“Peekskill Project Artists and Curators,” Roundtable panelist. Sponsored by the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY.
2004
panelist,at Resistance 101 (Symposium). City University of New York, New York, NY
“Theater Responding to Crisis: Inroads and Theatrical Strategies of Resistance,” Invited
Public Collections
Whitney Museum Museum of Modern Art Studio Museum in Harlem Brooklyn Museum
Kadist Foundation
SoHo House
Teaching Experience
2017- Rutgers University, Assistant Professor, New York, NY
2016-7 Williams College, Arthur Levitt ’52 Fellow, Williamstown, MA “Landscape and Language” (Spring 2017)
“Transparency and Opacity” (Spring 2017)
2016 Columbia University, Visiting Assistant Professor, New York, NY “Critical Issues” (Graduate, Fall 2016)
2015-6 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lecturer, New York, NY “Master of Fine Arts: Research Methodologies” (Fall 2016)
“Master of Fine Arts: Guided Projects” (Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015) “Master of Fine Arts: Landscape: Word and Image” (Spring 2016)
2014-5 Cooper Union, Lecturer (New York, NY)
“Introduction to Video” (Undergraduate; Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015)
2013-7 Parsons The New School for Design, Part-time Faculty (New York, NY)
“Professional Practices 2” (Graduate, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014) “Core Seminar 5” (Undergraduate; Fall 2016)
“Core Critique” (Graduate; Fall 2016; Fall 2015; Fall 2013) “Advanced Practice: 4D” (Graduate; Spring 2016) “Advanced Practice: Video” (Graduate; Fall 2015)
“Core Seminar 1” (Undergraduate; Fall 2015)
“Core Seminar 2” (Undergraduate; Spring 2015) “Group Critique” (Graduate; Fall 2014, Spring 2014) “Core Studio: 4D (Undergraduate; Fall 2013)
2013 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Visiting Lecturer (New York, NY) “Graphic Arts” (Fall 2013)
2012-3 Wellesley College, Visiting Lecturer (Boston, MA) “Introduction to Video Production” (Spring 2013)
2011-4 Trinity College, Ann Plato Fellow, Lecturer, (Hartford, CT) “Video Art Studio” (Spring 2012, Spring 2014) “Advanced Concepts in Studio Art” (Fall 2011)
2011 University of Houston-Downtown, Adjunct Lecturer (Houston, TX) “Art Appreciation” (Spring 2011)
2010-1 Glassell School of Art, Adjunct Lecturer (Houston, TX) “Introduction to Digital Photography” (Spring 2010 – Spring 2011)
2010 Rice University, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Adjunct Lecturer (Houston, TX) “Critical Studies for Studio Practice” (Fall 2010)
2007-9 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Teaching Assistant (Chicago, IL) “Avant-Garde Cinema and Modern Art” (Spring 2009)
“Video Installation” (Fall 2008)
“Media Practices” (Spring 2008)
“Image Making” (Fall 2007)
Visiting Artist & Visiting Critic
2020 Visiting Artist, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA). Artist lecture and studio visits, MFA in Visual Art
2019 Visiting Critic, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI). Two lectures in connection with course, “Direct Encounters with the Arts.”
2019 Visiting Artist, American University (Washington, DC). Artist lecture and studio visits, MFA in Studio Art
2019 Visiting Critic, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). Artist lecture, BA in Visual and Environmental Studies.
2019 Fall 2019 Auerbach Lecture, University of Hartford (Hartford, CT). Artist lecture and studio visits 2019 Exhibition Lecture, Penn MFA in New York (New York, NY). Artist lecture.
2019 Visiting Critic, University of Washington Oregon (Eugene, OR). Artist lecture and studio visits, MFA in Art
2018 Guest Critic, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). Classroom visit, BA in Visual and Environmental Studies
2018 Studio Visit, California College of the Arts in New York (New York, NY). Lecture at artist studio. 2017 Visiting Critic, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia). Artist lecture and
exhibition visit.
2017 Visiting Critic, Pratt University MFA Fine Arts (Brooklyn, NY), Artist lecture and studio visits,
MFA in Fine Arts
2017 Visiting Critic, Boston University (Boston, MA). Artist lecture and studio visits, MFA in Painting
and Drawing
2017 Studio Visit, School of the Art Institute of Chicago in New York (New York, NY). Lecture at artist
studio.
2016 StudioVisit,CityUniversityofNewYorkDigitalandInteractiveArtsPracticeProgramMFA
(New York, NY), Lecture at artist’s studio
2016 Visiting Critic, Hunter College MFA (New York, NY). Artist lecture and studio visits, MFA in Visual Art
2016 Visiting Critic, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low-Residency MFA (Chicago, IL). Artist lecture and studio visits, five days.
2016
2016
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
2012 studio 2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
VisitingCritic,PrattUniversityMFAWritingandActivism(Brooklyn,NY).Readerandcritic. VisitingArtist,TheEvergreenStateCollege(Olympia,WA).Artistlecture.
Visiting Critic, University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Artist lecture. VisitingLecturer,SummerIntensive,TripleCanopy(NewYork,NY).Artistlecture.
Visiting Critic, Brown University (Providence, RI). Studio visits, BA in Studio Art.
Visiting Artist, Hampshire College (Northampton, MA). Artist lecture and studio visits, BA in Visual Art.
Visiting Artist, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA). Artist lecture and studio visits, MFA in Photography.
Visiting Artist, ACRE (Steuben, WI). Artist lecture and studio visits, artist residency.
Visiting Lecturer, Summer Intensive, Triple Canopy (New York, NY). Artist lecture.
Visiting Critic, MFA in Fine Arts, Columbia University (New York, NY). Studio visits.
Visiting Critic, MFA Fine Arts, University of Illinois-Chicago (Chicago, IL). Studio visits.
Visiting Artist, Text Off The Page Seminar, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art (Copenhagen, DN).
Classroom visit.
Visiting Critic, MFA Program, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA). Artist lecture and visits.
Visiting Critic, “Graduate Thesis Seminar,” Trinity College (Hartford, CT). Visiting critic, BA in Studio Art senior thesis students
Visiting Artist, “4D Topics: Video,” Parsons the New School for Design (New York, NY).
VisitingArtist,“Multi-EthnicLiterature,”TrinityCollege(Hartford,CT).Artistlecture.
Visiting Artist, “Introduction to Visual Art” and “African American Art,” Prairieview A&M University (Prairieview, TX). Artist lectures.
Visiting Artist, “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Art,” University of Houston (Houston, TX). Artist lecture.
2010 Visiting Critic, Rice University (Houston, TX). Visiting critic, BFA Thesis
2010 VisitingArtist,“ProfessionalPractices,”TheGlassellSchoolofArt(Houston,TX).Artistlecture.
Academic Service
2018-9 Diversity Committee, Department of Art & Design, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
2018-9 Search Committee, Tenure-Track Faculty in Design, Department of Art & Design, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
2018-9 Search Committee, Tepper Chair, Department of Art & Design, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
2016 School Curriculum Committee, Parsons Fine Arts Part-time Faculty Representative, Parsons The New School for Design (Spring 2016)
2014-6 Admissions Committee, Graduate MFA in Fine Arts, Parsons The New School For Design
Selected Professional Experience and Professional Service
2019
2019
2018
2018
2018
2017
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2013
2012
2012
2009
2008-9 Museum of Arts and Design, Curator, MIX: New Performance at MAD
2005 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Curator,
Undisciplined: Race and New Media Art
2005 Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Juror and Producer, The Peekskill Project 2004-6 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Associate Director of Programs
2003-6 Amnesty International Firefly Project, Co-director, Curator, and Producer, various public
programs and exhibitions at Exit Art, the Chelsea Art Museum, ABC No Rio, Galapagos Art Space, and other venues
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, Invited nominator Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Juror
- CUE Art Foundation, Member of the Board
CUE Art Foundation, Open Call Juror and Mentor
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Juror and panelist
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Juror and panelist Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Juror and panelist
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition, Nominator ISCP, Juror, Van Lier Residency
Queens Museum, Juror, Studio Program
Smack Mellon, Juror, Studio Program
Studio Museum in Harlem, Juror, Artist-in-Residence Program Queer Art Mentorship, Invited nominator
Real Art Ways, Juror, Step Up Exhibition Program
Light Industry at X-Initiative, Curator, I Wish It Were True