Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a Berlin/London-based artist. They received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. Brathwaite-Shirley works predominantly in animation, sound, performance, and video game development. Their practice focuses on intertwining lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell the stories of Black Trans people. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and performances at institutions such as SCAD (2023), Artnight Dundee (2023), Villa Arson, Nice (2023), FACTLiverpool (2022), Project Arts Centre, Ireland (2022), Skänes konstförening, Malmö, Sweden (2022), QUAD, Derby, England (2021), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2021), Science Gallery, London (2020), and MU Hybrid Art House, London (2020). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2022); Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich (2019); Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2019); and Barbican, London (2018).