Khaleelah I. L. Harris is a lens based sacred artist. Harris does the work of capturing spirits and revealing spiritual netherworlds combining film photographs, printed through the cyanotype print making process, with archival photographs to create mixed media collages. With a thematic focus of intimacy, the southern gothic, Womanist aesthetics, Black Atlantic spiritualists, and  Black Atlantic Women's cultural history; Harris' works (re)creates photographs investigating scenes imagined through archival research to reveal stories hidden,  forgotten, and unimaginable. The new cyanotype printmaking process characterizes her work and deep blue hues to invoke the spiritual traditions found throughout The Black Atlantic.   

 

Khaleelah is regularly commissioned to create illustrations for essays in The Guardian, The Atlantic, and more. 

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Her first solo exhibition will open September 2025 at Hillyer gallery in Washington, D.C. 

Check out her Artsy page and follow her work.

 

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