Steffani Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, installation, performance, and writing. Her work explores Black vernacular culture, modes of storytelling, and the politics of literacy, opacity, and resistance. Through an approach that is grounded in research, Jemison looks at archives, experimental narrative forms, and movement-based practices to examine how knowledge and meaning are created, transmitted, and embodied. Her work often foregrounds improvisation, repetition, and gesture as strategies for both survival and experimentation.
Jemison lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her solo exhibitions have been presented at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Jeu de Paume, Paris; MASS MoCA, North Adams; CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; LAXART, Los Angeles; and the RISD Museum, Providence. She has also participated in major group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Whitney Biennial); the Brooklyn Museum; the Drawing Center, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the New Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the São Paulo Biennial.
