Nasheeka Nedsreal is an interdisciplinary artist and performer from Louisiana whose practice begins with movement and extends into film, image, sound, experimental masking, and play. Guided by intuition and sensation, she follows what emerges through the process of making rather than beginning with fixed ideas.

Rooted in Black cultural traditions and her Southern upbringing, Nasheeka develops her work through the body, materials, repetition, and experimentation, allowing meaning to shift and emerge over time. She is interested in the uncertainties of creation and in the ways that beauty, horror, humor, transformation, and the unknown might coexist.

Masks, veils, facial expressions, textiles, and digital overlays become tools for exploring visibility, concealment, and shifting forms of presence. Drawing from fashion, recycled and found objects, and upcycled materials, she plays with disappearance, shapeshifting, dream states, and the possibility of becoming otherwise.

Nasheeka’s screen performances include a principal role in First Days (Harbour, IFFR 2026), alongside self-directed short films such as Memories of Reincarnated Imaginings. She is currently interested in experimental dance film, found footage, upcycled materials, and sculptural forms as ways of continuing to explore movement through form and time.

A 2023 Ikarus Prize recipient for her children’s piece Flip Flop, alumna of the Black Rock Senegal residency, co-founder of Soul Sisters Berlin, and featured author in Plural Feminisms, Nasheeka continues to tour with international dance companies while expanding her practice into new mediums.