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Rashayla Marie Brown is an American artist known for her work on Black feminism, spirituality, and the history of photography. [1] [2] [3]
She received the Chicago Artadia Award in 2017. [4]
Brown was born in 1982 in Toledo, Ohio. In 2004, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in African American studies and sociology from Yale University. [5] [6] In 2015, she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Two years later, she received a Master of Arts in performance studies from Northwestern University, where she subsequently pursued a Ph.D. in performance studies. [7] [8]
Brown began her career as an artist in London, England, initially working as a radio DJ and poet. She founded the graphic design firm Selah Vibe, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia, which is no longer active. [5] She later served as the inaugural director of diversity and inclusion at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and oversaw RMB Properties, a program focused on providing affordable housing solutions for traveling artists.
Brown presented a solo exhibition of "Single Black Femme" at Royal Academy in London and "The Moving Picture Association for Maintaining Personal Ambivalence" at Recess in Brooklyn. [1] In 2022, her work "Reality Is Not Good Enough NY Premiere" was presented at Metrograph in New York, [3] and "Tamara's Repair: A Moving Image" was included in the Southern Survey Biennial at Project Row Houses in Houston. [9]
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