SHENEQUA

About the Maker

SHENEQUA is an Artprenuer who received her Masters of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under the mentorship of Nick Cave and Liat Stemad. Her solo exhibition Woven Narratives was on view at Haw Contemporary (Stockyards) in Kansas City from September 20 to October 30, 2019. She has exhibited her works in Performing Labor at Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, The Space We Grow Into at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, and Mane N’ Tail at The Luminary in St. Louis, to name a few.

A featured artist for "Ties that Bind" in American Craft Magazine and in The Kansas City Star, she spoke about her process of weaving synthetic-hair in relationship to the African-American Hair Experience. She was 2014’s Windgate Fellow of the Center for Craft and 2017-2018’s recipient of the inaugural YoungArts Daniel Arsham Fellowship, presented by the Ridinger-McLaughlin Family. SHENEQUA weaves the memories shared with the women in her life, Caribbean roots, Ghanaian experience and celebrates the black hair salon.