Sherae Rimpsey is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. She has exhibited her work internationally, most notably at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland; the Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland and National Library of Buenos Aires, Argentina as a contributing artist in Luis Camnitzer’s El Ultimo Libro – The Last Book project; and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany where she was awarded the prestigious Solitude Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Philadelphia Foundation Grant, as a Flaherty Fellow and a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and Residency. She has a BFA in Technology & Integrated Media with an emphasis in Visual Culture from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Here is her artist statement:
“I work within a hybrid practice of drawing, film, video, writing, installation and performance to construct subtle narratives that express some lost moment of being. The work rejects fixed notions of ‘being-in-the-world’, and facilitates a recursive engagement with the poetic. Black existence is such that we live in subterfuge. We are constantly reinventing, squirreling away, and ‘bout our shit’ in really dynamic and powerful ways, in part, to fend mutha fuckas off. I make work, to ask not only what it means to locate, but to recognize oneself in the world.”

 
Please check out her video “Meddling in the Afterlife”: