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Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) is an undisciplinary artist-writer-educator reshaping narratives of power and access through performance, film, writing, and photography. Her genre-bending work calls for action, healing, and self-mastery across cultural hierarchies. RMB has completed projects on five continents, including at the Embassy of Foreign Artists (Geneva), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), Royal Academy of Arts (London), and Turbine Hall (Johannesburg). Her directorial debut, Reality Is Not Good Enough (Producer: Jennifer Reeder, EP: Monique Meloche), was screened at Metrograph NYC and Oscar-qualifying festivals such as Slamdance and Athens, where it received a Special Jury Mention. 

RMB’s work and words have appeared in Art Forum, Artsy, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Performa Magazine, Prospect New Orleans, and on the covers of Chicago Reader and New City. Her viral essay, "Open Letter to My Fellow Young Artists and Scholars on the Margins," was republished by Arc Magazine and Hyperallergic. A former Starr Fellow of the Royal Academy Schools (London), RMB studied Arabic and French through a U.S. Dept. of Ed. fellowship in Morocco and holds degrees from Yale, SAIC, and Northwestern, trained by Paul Gilroy, Barbara DeGenevieve, and D. Soyini Madison respectively.

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