Bio

Jheanelle Brown

Jheanelle Brown is a film curator/programmer, educator, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles whose curatorial practice creates frameworks to explore the boundlessness of Black life in experimental and non-fiction film and video. She is interested in the space between fugitivity and futurity and elevating an ethic of care, with special interest in the sonic in film, political film and media, and West Indian film/video. Jheanelle is a board member and an associate programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum. She is currently Special Faculty at California Institute of the Arts, Distinguished Visiting Artist at Otis College of Art and Design, and curriculum developer for the Centennial High School film club.Her exhibitions and programs include Time Is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today (2019) co-curated with Sarah Loyer at Art + Practice, Our Documents (2019) at Residency Art Gallery, Deconstructing Portraiture: Embodied Landscapes (2018) and The Site of Memory: Enframed Histories as Ritual (2017) for Los Angeles Filmforum. She recently served as guest co-curator, with Darol Olu Kae, for Black Radical Imagination: Fugitive Trajectories which screened at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, articule gallery, Project Row Houses, amongst other institutions.