Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

b. 1995

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s worldbuilding practice incorporates animation, sound, performance and video games to “record, archive and remember” the Black trans community. Brathwaite-Shirley received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. She is currently based across Berlin and London.

Brathwaite-Shirley’s work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and performances at institutions such as SCAD, Savanna, 2023; Artnight Dundee, 2023; Villa Arson, Nice, 2023; Fact, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, 2022; Liverpool, 2022; David Kordansky, LA, 2022; Project Arts Centre, Ireland, 2022; Skänes konstförening, Malmö, Sweden, 2022; Arebyte Gallery, London, 2021; QUAD, Derby, England, 2021; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 2021; Tate Modern, London, 2020; Focal Point Gallery, London, 2020; Science Gallery, London, 2020; MU Hybrid Art House, London, 2020; Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, 2019; Les Urbaines, Lausanne, 2019; and Barbican, London, 2018.

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