Hilma’s Ghost

Hilma’s Ghost is a feminist artist collective co-founded by Brooklyn-based artists Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray in 2020. Named after the visionary Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint, the collective seeks to address art historical gaps by cultivating a global network of women, nonbinary, and trans practitioners whose work addresses spirituality. The collective uses ritual, magic, and collaborative artmaking to challenge and uplift esoteric traditions, believing that western heteropatriarchal societies maintain a false binary between spirituality and science.

Dannielle Tegeder is a contemporary artist who works with painting, drawing, installation, animation and sound. She is an associate professor at Lehman College, CUNY, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and has presented her work in over 100 gallery exhibitions internationally.

Sharmistha Ray is a visual artist and Estella Loomis McCandless Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Their artistic practice delves into the complex inheritance of multiple cultures through their queer identity and modes of historical and contemporary abstraction. They are the recipient of a Joan Mitchell MFA Grant and a Montblanc Young Artist Worldwide Patronage Award