Steffani Jemison

Steffani Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York whose work explores such questions as: How do we move? How are we moved by each other? Her work connects mark-making, gesture, proposal, projection, movement, and document. Jemison has presented solo exhibitions and commissioned performances at JOAN Los Angeles, Greene Naftali, Mass MoCA, Jeu de Paume, CAPC Bordeaux, the Museum of Modern Art, LAXART, and other venues. Her work has been included in significant generational exhibitions, including Greater New York 2021 and the Whitney Biennial 2019, and is part of many public collections, including the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Jemison’s novella A Rock, A River, A Street was published by Primary Information in 2022; she has also written for Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail. Her work is currently on view in permanent collection exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Albright-Knox (Buffalo), and the Albertinum Museum (Dresden) and in the touring exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. She is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.