Steffani Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers issues that arise when conceptual practices are inflected by black history and vernacular culture. Jemison uses rigorous formal methods to explore her interests in the politics of serial form, the limits of narrative description, and the tension between improvisation, repetition, and fugitivity. One body of mixed media works employs acetate as print medium, glazing, or support; another uses transcription of found and staged conversations as a generative process. Steffani also organizes social and archival projects; the most recent of these is her collaboration with Jamal Cyrus, Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet, an exhibition, reading room, and discussion space inspired by the politics of early 20^th century African American periodicals.

Steffani Jemison (born 1981, USA) received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, her collaborative project, Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet, was presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art; she also participated in exhibitions, screenings, and readings at ThreeWalls, Southern Exposure, Carol Jazzar Gallery, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, and other venues. Her work will be included in forthcoming exhibitions at Real Art Ways, LAXART, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has participated in artist residencies at Project Row Houses, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Jemison is the editor of Future Plan and Program, a publishing project featuring literary works by visual artists.