Shani Peters
ABOUT
Shani Peters (b. 1981 Lansing, MI) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New Orleans, LA. She holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.F.A. from the City College of New York. Peters has presented work in the U.S. and abroad at the New Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem; Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in South Korea; the National Gallery of Zimbabwe; and the Bauhaus Dessau. Selected residencies include those hosted by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Laundromat Project (NY), and Project Row Houses (TX). Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Creative Capital, the Rauschenberg Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Peters is a former faculty member of The City College of New York, Pratt Institute, and Parsons School of Design. She is a Co-Director of The Black School, an artist initiated experimental art school that is presently working to build a physical home for it’s art education and community programing in New Orlean’s 7th Ward. She is a current Creative Capital Awardee and the 2021 CAPE Artist in Residence at Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS.
Pawn Power
Screenprint on paper, edition of 3
20 x 30 in
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