Kameelah Janan Rasheed

**Kameelah Janan Rasheed** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1985) nyɛla Americann sabira, shikuru baŋda n-ti pahi nuchee ni baŋda ŋun yina East Palo Alto, California. O nyɛla 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts ka niriba pam mi o ka di nyɛla o nuchee ni baŋsim tuma zuɣu. O nyɛla ŋun be Brooklyn, NY, saha ŋɔ o nyɛla Arts Editor zaŋ n-ti SPOOK magazine. Yuuni 2021, o tuma nyɛla bɛ ni daa zaŋ shɛli niŋ Art 21 (New York Close Up) documentary, "The Edge of Legibility."

## Background

### Piligu biɛhigu

Bɛ daa dɔɣi o la East Palo Alto, California ka o laamba daa nyɛ Sunni Muslim. 

## Shikuru baŋsim
Rasheed nyɛla ŋun mali M.A. in Secondary Education ka o ni daa nya li shikuru shɛli yuli booni Stanford University ka daa lahi deegi o B.A. yuuni 2006 shikuru yuli booni Pomona College in Public Policy and Africana Studies.

## Pina mini Sɔŋsim

Rasheed nyɛla ŋun deegi sɔŋsim shɛŋa mini pina shɛŋa din doli na ŋɔ:

**2022**

* Creative Capital Awardee

**2021**

* Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts

**2016**
* Artist-in-residence, Bronx Museum of Art Co-Lab Residency | New York, NY
* Artist-in-residence, Creative Exchange Lab - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art | Portland, OR
* Artist-in-residence, Smack Mellon | Brooklyn, NY
* Artist-in-residence, The Center for Afrofuturist Studies at Public Space One | Iowa City, IA
* Copy Shop Resident, Endless Editions at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop | New York, NY
* Shortlisted, Visionary Award from the Tim Hetherington Trust | New York, NY
* Fellow, Ossian Fellowship - Jain Family Institute | New York, NY
**2015**
* Artist-in-residence, Lower East Side Print Shop | New York, NY
* Commissioned Artist/Scholar in Residence, Triple Canopy at New York Public Library Labs | New York, NY
* Grantee, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue | New York, NY
* Fellow, Artist Fellowship, AIR Gallery | Brooklyn, NY
* Fellow, Queens Museum – Jerome Foundation Fellowship Program, Queens Museum | Queens, NY
* Fellow, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 35), Bronx Museum | Bronx, NY
**2014**
* Grantee, Art Matters Foundation | New York, NY
* Grantee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant | New York, NY
* Artist-in-residence, Working Classrooms | Albuquerque, NM
* Artist-in-residence, Vermont Studio Center | Johnson, VT
**2013**
* Fellow (Create Change Professional Development), The Laundromat Project | New York, NY
* Juror, Center for Photography at Woodstock A-I-R | Woodstock, NY
* Artist-in-residence, Center for Book Arts | New York, NY
* Artist-in-residence, Visual Artist Network - Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
* Grantee, Visual Artist Network Community Fund - Real Art Ways | Hartford, CT
**2012**
* Awardee, STEP UP - Real Arts Ways | Hartford, CT
* Artist-in-residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock | Woodstock, New York
**2006**
* United States Fulbright Amy S. Biehl Scholar, U.S. Department of State | Johannesburg, South Africa
**2005**
* Harry S Truman Scholar, U.S. Department of State | Washington, D.C.
* Fellow, Rockefeller Brothers Fund | New York, NY

## Lahabaya ŋan zaŋ wuhu salo
O sabbu tuma polo, Rasheed nyɛla ŋun zaŋ sabiri shɛŋa din doli na ŋɔ wuhi salo:

* No New Theories 2019
* "Black deaths matter: victims' humanity, not perfection, are the reason to mourn." The Guardian. February 12, 2016
* "Public Empathy Must Not Be Reserved Only for 'Perfect Victims'." Creative Time Reports. February 12, 2016
* “Carceral State: An Interview with Eric A. Stanley.” The New Inquiry. November 3, 2014
* “On Loneliness: A Reading List.” Longreads. August 16, 2014
* “Black Lives Worthy of Elaboration: A Conversation with Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah.” Gawker. June 7, 2014
* “A Conversation with Roxane Gay.” Specter Magazine. May 2, 2014
* “A Conversation with Daniel José Older.” Specter Magazine. April 2, 2014
* "All Things Considered": An Interview with Kiese Laymon.” Specter Magazine. December 2, 2013
* “’Beautifully Disturbing’: An Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz.” Specter Magazine. November 2, 2013
* “’Here's to the Weird": An Interview with Victor LaValle.’” Specter Magazine. September 2, 2013
* “A Vessel for Peace: An Interview with Writer Ocean Vuong .” Well & Often Press. February 2, 2013

## Selected exhibitions
* A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, USA *On Refusal* (2016)
Rasheed's work, *Tell Your Struggle with Triumphant Humor*, 2014 shɛli nyɛ Exhibition *For Freedoms* ka di daa niŋ nyaɣisim ni Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms speech lahabali.

For *Whisper or Shout: Artists in the Social Sphere*, BRIC House in Brooklyn yuuni 2016, Rasheed nyɛla ŋun daa labi niŋ o tun'shɛli yuli booni *No Instructions for Assembly.*

## Kundivihira
 

## External links
* Kameelah Janan Rasheed official site