Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. Her work often brings about decolonial hauntings and disruptions reminding us that history is not in the past. Ehlers insists on the possibility for empowerment and healing in her art, honoring legacies of resistance in the African diaspora.
Ehlers graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. She has exhibited at international institutions including at the Momenta Biennale, Montreal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Centre Pompidou-Metz, France; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, among others. Ehlers is the co-creator of the public sculpture project I Am Queen Mary, 2018, in Copenhagen, Denmark and was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station in 2022. She is a member of The Lockward Collective who was selected to do The Decolonial Monument in Global Village Berlin, 2024.
