Khaleelah I. L. Harris (b. 1996) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of alternative photography processes, experimental visuality, and neohoodoo aesthetics. Her practice centers on what she theorizes as sacred speculation and sacred obscurity, a mode of engaging Black historical objects whose damaged or non-existent states complicate conventional memory-keeping, and demand a different kind of understanding.

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Harris works with cyanotype, lumen prints, phonograms, and chlorophyll processes to bring together unnamed and unidentified subjects from digitized archives, constructing images that carry the appearance of damage. These obscured surfaces are not failures, they are intentional, offering messages to viewers while extending protection to the ancestors venerated within each work.

Her image-making practice interrogates ancestral presence, archival absence, ghostly matters, and The Blues as both aesthetic and ethical commitments.

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​​​Harris is currently a Professional Artist-in-Residence at The Henry Luce Center for Religion and the Arts at Wesley Theological Seminary

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