Rashid Johnson

**Rashid Johnson** (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1977) ka o nyɛ African-American ŋun nyɛ nuuni tuunbaŋda. Johnson yuli daa pilila dubu yuuni 2001sahashɛli o ni daa nyɛ yuun pishi ni anahi, ka tuma daa nyɛ bɛ nivzaŋ shɛli pahi *[[Freestyle Exhibition|Freestyle]]* (2001), ŋun daa zaŋ li pahi n-nyɛ Thelma Golden, ka o daa zaŋ li kpehi Studio Museum din be Harlem.  O daa chaŋla shikuru Columbia College Chicago mini School of the Art Institute of Chicago ka o tuma gili dunia yaɣa.

## O tuun shɛŋa din pahi
Johnson daa bela sariya diribi ni Otobong Nkanga zaŋ ti Nasher Prize yuuni 2024.

## Maŋmaŋa biɛhigu
Johnson mini  nuuni tuunbaŋda Sheree Hovsepian n-niŋ amiliya. Bɛ bela New York City ka mali bi'dibila.

## Pina
* 2012: David C. Driskell Prize

## Exhibitions
*The Rise and Fall of the Proper Negro* (2003), Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; *The Production of Escapism* (2005), Indianapolis Contemporary; *Smoke and Mirrors* (2009), SculptureCenter, New York; *Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks* (2012-2013), originating at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; *The gathering* (2013), Hauser & Wirth, Zurich; *Anxious Men* (2015), Drawing Center, New York; *Provocations: Rashid Johnson* (2018), Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia; and *The Crisis* (2021), Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York.

He has also participated in many group shows, including *[[Freestyle Exhibition|Freestyle]]* (2001), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; IBCA 2005, Prague; *ILLUMInations* (2011), 54th Venice Biennale; Shanghai Biennale (2012); *Prospect. 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp* (2017), Prospect New Orleans; ni Liverpool Biennial (2021).

## Notable works in public collections

**Michael* (1998), Art Institute of Chicago
**Calvin* (1999), National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
**Jonathan* (1999), Whitney Museum, New York
**Self-Portrait with my hair parted like Frederick Douglass* (2003), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
**The Evolution of the Negro Political Costume* (2004), Brooklyn Museum, New York
**Untitled* (2007), Seattle Art Museum
**Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos* (2008), Whitney Museum, New York
**The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Emmett)* (2008), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
**The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Thurgood)* (2008), Rubell Museum, Miami; and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
**Thurgood in the Hour of Chaos* (2009), Brooklyn Museum, New York; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum, New York
**The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Marcus)* (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
**Our People, Kind of* (2010), Museum of Modern Art, New York
**The Treatment* (2010), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
**The New Black Yoga* (2011), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
**River Crossing* (2011), Detroit Institute of Arts
**The Sweet Science* (2011), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
**Four for the Talking Cure* (2012), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
**Tribe* (2013), Pérez Art Museum Miami
**Planet* (2014), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
**Fatherhood* (2015), Baltimore Museum of Art
**Untitled* (2015), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Whitney Museum, New York
**Untitled Anxious Audience* (2017), Milwaukee Art Museum
**Untitled (Anxious Crowd)* (2018), Cleveland Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; and Whitney Museum, New York
**Untitled Escape Collage* (2018), Dallas Museum of Art
**The Broken Five* (2019), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
**Anxious Red Painting November 29th* (2020), Art Institute of Chicago
**Stacked Heads* (2020), Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York
**The Bruising: For Jules, The Bird, Jack and Leni* (2021), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
**Standing Broken Men* (2021), Cleveland Museum of Art
**Untitled Anxious Red* (2021), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

## Bibliography
*Claudia Rankine, Sampada Aranke, Akili Tommasino, *Rashid Johnson*, Phaidon, London, 2023
*Monica Davis, Claudia Schreier, *Rashid Johnson: The Hikers*, Hauser & Wirth, Aspen, 2021
*Ruth Addison, Kate Fowle, Anton Belov, *Rashid Johnson*, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2016
*Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Paul Beatty, Madeleine Grynsztejn, *Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks*, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2012

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