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Donny Bradfield, also known as Shabez Jamal, is an interdisciplinary artist and the Harnish Visiting Lecturer in Photography at Smith College. Born in 1992, in St. Louis, Jamal earned their BA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and their MFA from Tulane University of Louisiana. Their visual practice explores the relationship between the memorialized and the imagined. Through their work, which includes photography, non-linear video, installation, and performance, they engage with the vacant space as inherently Black. Through this framework, they understand physical, political, and socio-economic spaces through the possibilities that arise when engaging with the inherited backward and forward motions that are inherent to spaces rendered as 鈥渆mpty.鈥� 

Jamal has received numerous fellowships and awards, including Harvard University鈥檚 In the City Fellowship, the Mellon Community Engaged Fellowship at Tulane University, and Washington University鈥檚 The Divided City Research Grant. Their work has been exhibited extensively in both national and international spaces, including the St. Louis Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Their work is part of the St. Louis Community College, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Newcomb Museum of Art at Tulane University, and several private collections.