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Shani Strand (b. 1995, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, video and installation to consider ungovernability in a post-colonial and globalized world. She is one half of Sucking Salt, a project that archives Caribbean architecture and aesthetics to diversify architectural history and to assert the Caribbean as a site of material importance and a major intersection of various cultures and colonial histories.
Recent exhibitions include Everything Must Be Returned at Artists Space, New York (2026); Fade at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2026); SLIPPERY 4L at Harkawik, LA (2024); Procession at Rachel Uffner, NY (2024); Walk Good, Act Bad at Deli Gallery, CDMX (2023); Rachel Uffner, NY (2022); and HOUSING, NY (2021). She has performed at The Broad, Los Angeles (2022) and held residencies at the Studios at Mass MOCA (2026), Automata (2022), and Interstate Projects (2018). She has been published by CARLA (2024), The Avery Review (2023) and Pin-Up Magazine (2021). She has lectured at Santa Monica Community College (2024), Wesleyan University (2024) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (2022). Strand received her BFA from Oberlin College and her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.