Tsige Tafesse is an art worker moving between London and New York. She is currently apart of the Arts Technologies R&D team at Serpentine Galleries, where she collaborates on experimental infrastructures for art and worldmaking. Her practice is rooted in the relational- curating, producing, and dreaming with others across disciplines, geographies, and timelines. She holds an MA from SOAS, University of London, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Tafesse has been supported by fellowships and residencies at Eyebeam, the Ford Foundation’s New Media Leaders cohort, NYU Tandon (Scholar-in-Residence), Brooklyn Community Foundation, NEW INC at the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Arts Leadership Praxis program, and earlier in performance with Intiman Theatre and the Hansberry Project.

Over the past decade, she has developed programs and platforms with Processing Foundation, The Kitchen, New Museum, TED, The Africa Center, The New School, and Young Women Empowered (Y-WE), weaving together pedagogy, care-based technologies, and community-led infrastructures. She was a cofounder of artist collective BUFU:By Us For Us. Tafesse has shared work and conversation with spaces including MoMA, MoMA PS1, Art Basel Hong Kong, OpenAI and Strada Gallery, SXSW, Eyeo Festival, Creative Time Summit X, Seattle Art Museum, Rubin Museum, Bronx Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Recess, Feminist Culture House, School for Poetic Computation, Data&Society, NYU, Princeton, Abrons Art, Afrotectopia, Vera List Center, MoCA Los Angeles, and others. Her writing traces speculative memory and digital resistance, with highlighted essays published in On Mind (The Kitchen), Software for Artists Book (Pioneer Works), SOAS Art and Politics in Africa Journal. She has been recognized by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA 100), and featured in Frieze, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Artsy, FADER, Ebony, i-D, NYLON, Posture, VICE/i-D, Cult Classic, and Autostraddle.