Steffani Jemison
Still from The Escaped Lunatic, 2011. Video, 8 minutes, 57 seconds
Untitled (Projection X), 2013. Inkjet print on acetate, gesso, hardware, and custom panel, 24 x 36 x 1 1/2 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Berkeley, California, 1981
Resides: Brooklyn, New York
Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(M.F.A., 2009); Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture (2008); Columbia University (B.A., 2003)
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2013
"When I Turn My Head," Hagedorn Foundation Gallery,
Atlanta.
"Stroke," Bindery Projects, Minneapolis.
"Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet," Juxtaposition Arts,
Minneapolis.
"Same Time," LAXART, Los Angeles.
2012
"Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet," with Jamal Cyrus, Royal
Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen.
"Real Art Ways," Hartford, Connecticut.
2011
"Museum as Hub: Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet,"
with Jamal Cyrus, New Museum, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
"Every Act, A Repetition," Laurel Gitlen, New York.
"The West in South Harbour," Sydhavn Station,
Copenhagen.
"Things in Themselves," Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York.
"Observer Effect," Gallery 400, Chicago.
"Black Cake," Team Gallery, New York.
2012
"The Bearden Project," Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York.
"Resonance and Repetition," Elizabeth Foundation
for the Arts, New York.
"Fore," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Selected Performances, Screenings, and Readings
2013
"You Completes Me," University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
"You Completes Me," Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York.
2011
"Lets Mots et Les Choses," Southern Exposure, San
Francisco.
"An Evening with Future Plan and Program,"
Threewalls, Chicago.
"An Afternoon with Future Plan and Program," Project
Row Houses, Houston.
Selected Bibliography
2013
Lax, Thomas. "First Look: Steffani Jemison," Art in
America (May).
Harrell, Trajal, Steffani Jemison, et al. "Feeling
Conceptual," Mousse (April/May).
2012
Clifford Owens: Anthology. New York: MoMA PS1.
Merjian, Ara H. "Fore," Artforum.com (December 19).
Cotter, Holland. "Fore," The New York Times
(November 29).
Workneh, Sarah. "Black Contemporary Art," Art
Papers (November/December).
Dunne, Susan. "Johannes Deyoung, Steffani Jemison,
Phil Lique, Laura Marsh At Real Art Ways," Hartford
Courant (April 30).
Vogel, Wendy. "Future Plan and Program," Flash Art
(January/February).