Steffani Jemison (b. 1981) lives and works in New York. Her work is currently included in New Formations at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, and in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, a group exhibition co-organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art, which will travel to the Brooklyn Museum in March 2023. Recent solo exhibitions, screenings, and performances include JOAN, Los Angeles (2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2021); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Lincoln Center, New York (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); CAPC Bordeaux (2017); MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2017); Nottingham Contemporary (2017); RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (2015); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015). A professor of Art & Design at Rutgers University, Jemison’s first novel, A Rock, A River, A Street, was published by Primary Information in 2022.

Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.