Art Fact Friday #11 10-06-23 Rashid Johnson
- William Mandela Matthews
- Oct 6, 2023
- 2 min read
Born 1977 multimedia artist Rashid Johnson explores elements identity, African American history, and mysticism. His works include sculptural installations, wall-based painting, and manufactured materials assemblages. Making, his own tools to score, scrape, engrave, and brand his pieces.
A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Johnson received critical attention in 2001 age 24,showing in New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Mexico City, London, Athens, and other cities.
In 2002, he exhibited at the Sunrise Museum in Charleston,WV. He presented photographic work using chicken bones, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 2002 he exhibited Seeing in the Dark, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University. He also exhibited in Atlanta,GA at the National Black Arts Festival, City Gallery East 2002. He was part of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs artist Open Studio Program rotation summer 2003. At that time, represented by George N'Namdi, owner G.R. N'Namdi, oldest African-American-owned, exhibiting commercial gallery in the US.
2004 with the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, The Evolution of the Negro Political Costume was exhibited. Replicas of three outfits worn by African-American politicians.
2005, he joined Chicago Cultural Center artist exchange program.The Crossings exhibition most artists first chance to exhibit each others country . In
The following year, he obtained a master's degree, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. and taught at Pratt Institute in NY,NY.
His 2006 ensemble entitled Scarecrow, a life-sized photographic nude self-portrait. 2007 "Stay Black and Die" part The Color Line exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery. At the same time featured at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's For Love of the Game: Race and Sport in America. 2008 his mixed-media work, The Dead Lecturer exhibited; called "a fictional secret society of African-American intellectuals, a cross between Mensa and the Masons.”
Featured in the international pavilion at the Venice Biennale,2011 & named a finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize. 2012, Hauser & Wirth hosted their first solo exhibition of Johnson in Ny,Ny. 2012, Johnson presented his 1st major museum solo exhibition in the US, Message to Our Folks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The exhibition travelled to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum STL, and the High Museum of ATL.
Johnson made his directorial debut with Native Son, an adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2019. Johnson won "Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Television)" at the 51st NAACP Image Awards for Native Son.
The Broken Nine unveiled, 2021, at Metropolitan Opera in Ny,Ny. Johnson's works were added to the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021. 2022, his Surrender Painting "Sunshine" sold for $3 million, a record at auction.
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