Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson's work employs a wide range of media to explore themes of art history, individual and shared cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy, materiality, and critical history. After studying photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Johnson’s practice expanded to embrace sculpture, painting, drawing, filmmaking, and installation, yielding a complex multidisciplinary practice that incorporates diverse materials rich with symbolism and personal history. 

Johnson’s art refers to aspects of African American culture in paintings and sculptures made from materials such as black wax, mirrors, zebra skins, and shea butter. He also creates prints, mostly etchings/intaglios. In collaboration with Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, he produced his first-ever lithograph, Untitled (2020). 

Johnson’s art has been exhibited widely internationally in exhibitions presented by the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; and McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. His Brooklyn studio is a massive space that accommodates the creation of mixed-media paintings, ceramics, and monumental public art.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

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Born

1977

Chicago, IL

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

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