Kameelah Rasheed

American | 1985

Kameelah Rasheed is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1985. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Kameelah Rasheed's work in the past.The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "Purchase the Proper Boots with which to Pull Yourself Up by the Bootstraps; Lower the Pitch of Your Suffering; Take It Like a Man But Don't Take It Up with the Man; and Tell Your Struggle with Triumphant Humor" at Phillips New York in 2023.Kameelah Rasheed has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Art Newspaper in June 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Kameelah Janan Rasheed

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Purchase the Proper Boots with which to Pull Yourself Up by the Bootstraps; Lower the Pitch of Your Suffering; Take It Like a Man But Don't Take It Up with the Man; and Tell Your Struggle with Triumphant Humor ,2014

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Purchase the Proper Boots with which to Pull Yourself Up by the Bootstraps; Lower the Pitch of Your Suffering; Take It Like a Man But Don't Take It Up with the Man; and Tell Your Struggle with Triumphant Humor ,2014

By Kameelah Rasheed

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Past Exhibitions

A Colloquy

Wei-Ling Contemporary

Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia

Apr 08,2025 - May 17,2025

A Colloquy

Wei-Ling Gallery

Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia

Apr 08,2025 - May 17,2025

To Conjure. New Archives in Recent Photography

International Center of Photography (ICP)

Lower East Side | New York | USA

Jan 23,2025 - May 05,2025

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Articles

The Art Newspaper 18/06/2025

A multi-institution exhibition explores the Shaker community鈥檚 impact on contemporary art and design.

MOUSSE Magazine 17/06/2025

Basel Oomph Powered聽by聽Basel Tourismus聽is a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions held by institutions across the city during Art Basel 2025.

e-flux 20/05/2025

The UK鈥檚 leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize is delighted to announce exhibition details for its eleventh edition.

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鈥� ..Rasheed is a former high school history reacher now working as a curriculum writer, teaching artist, and MFA professor focused on research-based art practices... 鈥�
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New Museum, New York

鈥� ..Rasheed鈥檚 work is that temporal stage on which juxtaposition, repurposing, and reimagining of existing material culture is a means to choreograph new narrative possibilities and futures... 鈥�
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Vox Populi Gallery

鈥� ..Kameelah Janan Rasheed鈥檚 ongoing research-intensive practice looks at the pluralities of blackness and the interplay between legibility and opaqueness... 鈥�
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A.I.R. Gallery

鈥� ..Kameelah Janan Rasheed鈥檚 evolving series of archival inkjet prints, 鈥淎 Casual Mathematics鈥�, articulates racial inequality via the language of number... 鈥�
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鈥� .. Rasheed works mainly with a Xerox machine, a tool for self-publication and DIY dissemination, to print diagrammatic poems or word-scores that are digitized and reprinted on to vinyl, photo paper, and... 鈥�
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