Shaelee Comettant

Shaelee Comettant is a multidisciplinary artist and writer working in St. Louis. Her work explores the complexity of memory-making and preservation as well as the role that storytelling plays in daily life. She assembles archives of community-collected narratives, creating shared spaces that memorialize personal histories. Her thinking around preservation is influenced by her time spent at archeological sites in the Chachapoyas province in Peru.

She received a BFA in Time-Based + Media Art at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art and a BA in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023. Her work has been shown with Angad Arts Hotel, Soulard Art Gallery, Cunst Gallery, Art Saint Louis and the Red Gate Gallery and has been published with Melonpress and Myrtlehaus Publishing.