Shaka Dendy is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working primarily in sculpture, video, performance, installation, andmusic. In addition to a fine art practice, he is one half of Camp Blood, a Boston-based industrial hip-hop band. Dendy holds a BA from Florida State University and an MFA in Film & Media Art from Emerson College. He currently works as a Teaching Artist at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

In 2019, Dendy was the Public Artist-in-Residence at Boston Center for theArts, where his project Gestures of Incompleteness used community service-as-art to engage communities and reframe perceptions of race, class, and opportunity. This project resulted in valuable community donations and a semi-permanent public sculpture in Boston’s South End neighborhood. With Camp Blood, Dendy released a debut eponymous EP to critical acclaim, and was nominated for Best New Artist by the Boston Music Awards. After numerous performances across Boston, New York, and surrounding areas, Camp Blood curated an immersive multimedia performance at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.

In this Accelerator experience, Dendy is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the community through his work, and deeply appreciative of Now + There’s support and guidance in doing so. As the youngest artist in this year’s cohort, he is looking forward to developing a skillset as a public artist by working alongside and learning from the cohort and Now +There fellows.