Scheherazade Tillet

Scheherazade Tillet (she/her) is a photo-based artist, curator, and feminist activist. Tillet’s work focuses on themes like Blackness, play, freedom, trauma, and healing. 

Tillet’s work has been showcased at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Project for Empty Space, Columbia University, and Rutgers University’s Express Newark. Tillet’s work has been featured in The Cut, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Teen Vogue, Gagosian Quarterly, the Chicago Reader, Vice, and other publications.

Tillet acted as a consultant for the Lifetime documentary series Surviving R. Kelly and played an important role in leading the #MuteRKelly campaign in Chicago. 

Tillet serves as the executive director of A Long Walk Home, an organization she cofounded in 2003 with her sister, Salamishah Tillet. She is the lead artist and curator of The Black Girlhood Altar installation, created to raise awareness about missing and murdered Black girls and young women. She is also the founder of The Rekia Boyd Monument Project in Chicago. Tillet cocurated “Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility,” an expansive exhibition dedicated to Black girls and genderqueer youth, in partnership with Black communities and young members.