DANIELLE BRATHWAITE-SHIRLEY

For the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley presents an immersive and interactive installation that centers the lived experiences of Black trans people. GET HOME SAFE consists of virtual, digital, and physical components: video portraits, vinyl wall graphics, and a video game designed by the artist that draws on the history and aesthetics of online role-playing games. In the game, viewers explore what it means to walk home at night in certain bodies, while the physical installation further personifies the navigation of these realities. The artist’s unique style in the works on view is characterized by drawing with text, rearranging recorded data into new legible forms.

Press Coverage

Jesse Dorris, “SCAD Museum of Art Highlighting Life-Affirming Power of Personhood,” Surface Magazine, October 27 2023.

Christa Terry, “Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley On Video Games, Empathy and the Role of Discomfort in Art,” Observer, November 16 2023.

Jo Lawson-Tancred, “The Secrets Behind the Small Museums That Start Big Trends,” ArtNet, January 25, 2025

Jo Lawson-Tancred,“Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Uses Video Games to Archive the Black Trans Experience,” ArtNet, April 3, 2024.

Daniel Culpan, “Ready Player Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley,” Art Review, 07 March 2024

Photos Courtesy of SCAD