Sherae Rimpsey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has exhibited her work internationally, most notably at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland; Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland and National Library of Buenos Aires, Argentina as a contributing artist in Luis Camnitzer’s El Ultimo Libro – The Last Book project; and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany where she was awarded the prestigious Solitude Fellowship and was an artist in residence there from October 2008 – December 2009. She is the recipient of a Philadelphia Foundation Grant and a Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant and Residency. She received her BFA in Technology & Integrated Media with an emphasis in Visual Culture from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

"Meddling in the Afterlife" (film still) 2016 16mm & super-8 film
"i never got there i have never been there and i am not coming back from there" 2014, hand-drawn animated film, super 8 film + video