ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kashira Dowridge is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker exploring personal and collective identity within BIPOC communities. Working across experimental film, photography, sound, and installation, her work centers on healing, memory, and transformation.
From 2017–2022, Kashira completed select commercial and editorial projects, including Apple, Target, Refinery29, Dazed, Free the Work, and more, which served as a formative training ground, shaping her approach to composition, storytelling, and visual language. Early studies in fashion, though unfinished, continue to inform her use of color, form, and texture.
Her recent work includes Time Will Tell, an experimental film on self-discovery and authenticity, and Drive-By, a public installation with Sidewalk Festival offering space for families affected by gun violence to process grief. Kashira’s process and experiences at the Chrysalis Institute residency were featured on The Waystation Podcast, highlighting her artistic journey and reflections on community-centered storytelling.
Across her practice, she creates spaces where emotion becomes archive, through sound, image, and participation, fostering reflection, connection, and collective healing.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work interprets humanity and emotional processing through sound, film, and photography. Rooted in lived experience and social realities, I use storytelling to examine how people move through grief, memory, and transformation.
Creating across mediums began as a personal language in my youth, an early tool for navigating responsibility and emotion, which has evolved into what I call my rupture works: pieces that break from traditional photography and film by merging installation, sound, scientific inquiry, and community collaboration.
In Drive-By, Drive-By (2023), I built a public installation offering families affected by drive-by shootings space to process grief and vulnerability, transforming pain into connection and collective care. In Time Will Tell (2024), I explored memory and selfhood through experimental sound and film, considering personal and shared transformations within BIPOC communities.
Across my practice, I create spaces where emotion becomes archive, and sound, image, and participation reveal how we adapt, survive, and transform, centering healing, belonging, and the ways we carry memory in our bodies and environments.
Contact: Info@Kashiradowridge.com
