Steffani Jemison

Biography

Steffani Jemison received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from Columbia University. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and served as an artist-in-residence at the Core Program at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. Her work has been shown at LA> "My practice centers around conceptual arts 'unfinished business,' and focuses particularly on issues that arise when conceptual practices are inflected by black history and vernacular culture. I create work that directly responds to classic and contemporary literature, experiments in early cinema, and our present art historical moment, often working closely with nonprofessional performers to make video installations, photographs, drawings, prints, slide projector installations, musical scores, and a nonfiction novella."