Kashif Dennis

Kashif Dennis (he/they) is a photo based, multimedia and performance artist and educator. He received his BA in Visual Art from the University of the West Indies St. Augustine (2015), and their MFA in Creative Photography from the University of Florida (2019). Dennis is currently pursuing their PhD in Women’s, Gender and Sexualities studies at The Ohio State University (2026). Born in Trinidad (1989), both their scholarly and artistic practice references the cultural festivals of Carnival as a socio-political and historical site eligible for speculations on Black Queer Futurity. Currently, his hybridized doctoral work investigates the conditions to the construction of gender; legible through the expressive forms emerging from Trinidad’s Carnival.