Biography

A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2022 Creative Capital Award and 2024 High Desert Test Sites Fellowship, Rasheed's recent solo exhibitions include REDCAT, KW Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Kunstverein Hannover. She is the author of seven artist books and the founder of The Little Octopus School and Scratch Disks Full, which reimagine learning and publishing as communal, playful, and experimental. She is a full-time faculty member in Sculpture at the Yale School of Art and has lectured at institutions across the U.S. and Europe.

Rasheed's ongoing research projects, including Mapping the Spirit and Gather and Disperse, explore Black epistemologies, spiritual practice, and experimental publishing as critical tools for cultural memory, pedagogy, and transformation.

Rasheed was a visiting faculty member in the Low-Residency MFA in Dance program at Bennington in Summer 2025.