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Rashid Johnson

Biography

Born

Chicago IL, 1977

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 2000

School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, 2004 – 2005

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

Guggenheim Museum, 'Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers', New York NY

2024

Hauser & Wirth, 'Rashid Johnson. Anima', Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Pace Gallery, 'The Monster', Los Angeles CA
The Warehouse, 'Double Vision: The Rachofsky Collection and the Hartland & Mackie / Labora Collection', Dallas TX

Hangar Y, 'Sculpture Park', Meudon, France

National Museum of African American History and Culture, 'Revelation: The Universe of African American Abstraction', Washington DC

2024

Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Edges of Ailey', New York NY
C/O Berlin, 'Tyler Mitchell . Wish This Was Real', Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
MAB FAAP - Museu de Arte Brasileira, 'Ancestral: Afro-Americas', São Paulo, Brazil
El Espacio 23, 'Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection', Miami FL
Hauser & Wirth, 'Leon Golub. Et In Arcadia Ego', cur. Rashid Johnson, New York NY
Pinakothek der Moderne, 'Eccentric. Aesthetics of Freedom', Munich, Germany
Luhring Augustine, 'Patterns', New York NY
Norton Museum of Art, 'Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing', West Palm Beach FL
Aspen Art Museum, 'In the House of the Trembling Eye: an exhibition staged by Allison Katz', Aspen CO
The National Gallery of Art, 'The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy', Washington DC
Hauser & Wirth, 'The Flesh of the Earth', cur. Enuma Okoro, New York NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 'Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960', Washington DC
The Phillips Collection, 'Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage', Washington DC (traveling exhibition) 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 'Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage', Houston TX (traveling exhibition) 

Awards

2020

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie for Native Son

2018

Aspen Award for Art

Performances

2020

Moma PS1, 'Rashid Johnson: Stage', New York, NY

Bedtime Stories, a project initiated by Maurizio Cattelan, New Museum, New York, NY

2019

Aspen Art Museum, 'Rashid Johnson. The Hikers', Aspen, CO

Curatorial Projects

2020

Mwabwindo School, supported by 14+ Foundation, Zambia, Africa (Site-specific Mural)

2017

Parrish Art Museum, 'Five and Forward', cur. Rashid Johnson, Water Mill, NY

Rental Gallery, 'Color People', cur. Rashid Johnson, New York, NY

Bibliography

Monographs

2025

Beckwith, Naomi, Karnes, Andrea (eds.), 'Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers', New York: Guggenheim New York, 2025, ill. (exh. cat.)

2023

Rankine, Claudia, Aranke, Sampada, Tommasino, Akili, 'Rashid Johnson', London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2023, ill.

Artist’s Books & Writings

2023

Johnson-Odim, Cheryl, Johnson, Rashid, 'Rashid Johnson & Cheryl Johnson-Odim: Heart-Turned-Inside-Out Poems', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2023, ill.

2018

Johnson, Rashid, 'Inside Man', in: 'Purvis Young', Miami: Rubell Museum, 2018 (exh. cat.)

Johnson, Rashid, 'The Rainbow Sign', in: 'The Music of Color. Sam Gilliam 1967 – 1973', Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 2018

Publications

2025

Marchesano, Louis (ed.), Dobrovskaya, Em, Friedman, Emily (et al.), 'Brand X Editions. Innovation in Screenprinting', Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2025, ill. (exh. cat.)

Aloi, Giovanni, 'Botanical Revolutions. How Plants Changed the Course of Art', Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2025, p. 192, ill.

2024

Alemina, Cecilia, 'Elevated. Art on the High Line', New York: Monacelli/Friends of the High Line, 2024, pp. 96-97, ill.
Zuckerman, Heidi, 'Why Art Matters. The Bearable Lightness of Being', Costa Mesa CA: OCMA Press, 2024, p. 386, ill.
Folkerts, Hendrik (ed.), 'ON THE BLUE STAGE: A Conversation between Rashid Johnson and Hendrik Folkerts', Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2024, ill.

Cochran, Sara, Fischl, Eric, Lipsyte, Robert (et al.), 'Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing', New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2024, pp. 133, 171, ill. (exh. cat.)

Tommasino, Akili, 'Flight into Egypt. Black artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now', New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024, pp. 226-227, 253-254, ill. (exh. cat.)­

Press

2025

Silverman, Erica, 'Top New York Exhibitions: Rashid Johnson, William Kentridge, and More', on: whitewall.art, 8 May 2025, ill.

Loos, Ted, 'A Patron of the Arts in Denver Who Was 'Saved by Collecting'', on: nytimes.com, 7 May 2025, ill.

___, 'Rashid Johnson', on: whitewall.art, 25 April 2025, ill.

___, 'The Cult 100' [interview], on: culturedmag.com, 29 April 2025, ill.

Elujoba, Yinka, 'Rashid Johnson's Visual Feast', on: vulture.com, 25 April 2025, ill.

Diop, Arimeta, 'Rashid Johnson on Middle Age, Being Inspired by Amiri Baraka, and What's at the Heart of His Guggenheim Retrospective', on: vanityfair.com, 23 April 2025, ill.

Johnson, Rashid, O. Harris, Jeremy, 'Bullying The Space' [interview], in: interview Magazine, New York, issue 560, Spring 2025, pp. 125-131, ill.

Pricco, Evan, 'A Poet For Our Times: Rashid Johnson Wows at the Guggenheim', on: juxtapoz.com, 21 April 2025, ill.

Arson, Marc, 'Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers at The Guggenheim Museum', on: whitehotmagazine.com, 21 April 2025, ill.

Cotter, Holland, 'Rashid Johnson Finds His Promised Land at the Guggenheim', on: nytimes.com, 17 April 2025, ill.

Bellow, Ashley Avalon, 'Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim: A night of velvet thunder and sacred swagger', on: amny.com, 17 April 2025, ill.

Greenberger, Alex, 'Rashid Johnson's Revelatory Guggenheim Survey Lets His Art Remain Complex and Elusive', on: artnews.com, 18 April 2025, ill.

Sporn, Stephanie, 'In New York, Rashid Johnson Plants a Profound Solo Show in the Guggenheim Rotunda' [interview], on: vogue.com, 18 April 2025, ill.

Stewart, Alison (host), 'Rashid Johnson Leaves No Medium Uncovered to Pursue His Art [interview; audio podcast], in: All Of It, WNYC, 18 April 2025.

Skena Culgan, Rossilynne, 'There is a hanging garden inside the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda', on: timeout.com, 18 April 2025, ill.

Straniero, Monica, 'The Guggenheim Hosts Rashid Johnson Retrospective, 'A Poem for Deep Thinkers'', on: lavocedinewyork.com, 18 April 2025, ill.

Fouquet, Raphael, 'L'art complexe de Rashid Johnson au Guggenheim', on: streetartparis.fr, 20 April 2025, ill.

Luscombe, Belinda, 'Rashid Johnson and the Fine Art of Anxiety', on: time.com, 31 March 2025, ill.

Mooallem, Stephen, 'Rashid Johnson’s Very Personal History', on: harpersbazaar.com, 20 March 2025, ill.

Black, Shelby, 'From Ruth Asawa to Rashid Johnson: These Buzzy Spring Exhibitions Are Not to Be Missed', on: galeriemagazine.com, 20 March 2025, ill.

___, 'What’s On View', in: Galerie Magazine, New York, no. 39, March 2025, p. 56, ill.

Aton, Francesca, 'Artist Rashid Johnson Models in Gabriela Hearst’s Fall 2025 Fashion Show', in: artiness.com, 10 March 2025, ill.

___, 'Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers to Open at The Guggenheim Museum New York', on: gothamtogo.com, 4 March 2025, ill.

Cochran, Sam, 'Sky's the Limit', in: Architectural Digest 100, January 2025, pp. 130-139, ill.
Kailath, Ryan, 'Here are some of the top museum shows coming to New York in 2025', on: gothamist.com, 4 January 2025

___, 'The Norton Museum of Art Honors Rashid Johnson, and Other News', on: surfacemag.com, 14 January 2025, ill.

Adamson, Glenn (ed.), 'Wax', in: Material Intelligence, Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2025, p. 69, ill.

2024

Schrader, Adam, Chen, Min, Whiddington, Richard (et al.), 'From a Ruth Asawa Survey to a Van Gogh Spotlight—13 U.S. Museum Shows You Can’t Miss in 2025', on: news.artnet.com, 31 December 2024, ill.
Courteau, Rose, 'Build It and They Will Come', in: Family Style, New York, December 2024, pp. 152-159, ill.
Silverman, Erica, 'The Most Anticipated 2025 Exhibitions at MoMA, The Met, The Serpentine, and More', on: whitewall.art, 31 December 2024, ill.
Servant-Ulgu, Valentine, 'Rashid Johnson filme la filiation et ses symboles dans Sanguine, son nouveau court-métrage', on: vanityfair.fr, 17 December 2024, ill.
Artsy Editors, 'The Best Public Art of 2024, according to Curators', on: artsy.net, 13 December 2024, ill.
Tomkins, Calvin, 'No Room for a Masterpiece. Rashid Johnson's art of masculine vulnerability is going to the Guggenheim', in: The New Yorker, New York, 16 December 2024, pp. 36-45, ill.
Erkan, Ekin, 'Edges of Ailey', on: brooklyrail.org, Dec/Jan 2024-25, ill.
Finkel, Jori, 'Planting for the Future: The Artists Pushing Ecological Art Forward', on: wmagazine.com, 10 December 2024, ill.
Tomkins, Calvin, 'The Confident Anxiety of Rashid Johnson', on: newyorker.com, 9 December 2024, ill.
Benhamou, Judith, 'Ne pas détourner les yeux', in: Les Echos Série Limitée, Paris, December 2024, pp. 126-127, ill.
Heath, Shaquille, 'How to Feel: Five Artists Reflect on Alvin Ailey’s Incredible Legacy', on: elephant.art, 4 December 2024, ill.
Javault, Patrick, 'Questions animistes, chef-d'oeuvre du modernisme et dévotion religieuse', on: theartnewspaper.com, 29 November 2024, ill.
___, 'Hauser & Wirth debuts two new bodies of painting by Rashid Johnson', on: artdaily.com, 25 November 2024, ill.
Maertens, Marie, 'Les introspectinos de Rashid Johnson', in: Connaissance des Arts, December 2024, ill.

___, 'Qatar Museums unveils massive artwork by world-renowned artist Rashid Johnson', on: qatar-tribune.com, 4 November 2024, ill.
Silverman, Erica, 'Rashid Johnson’s “Anima” Searches for the Soul at Hauser & Wirth Paris', on: whitewall.art, 22 October 2024, ill.
Mang, Lolita, 'Rashid Johnson interroge sa propre masculinité à la galerie Hauser & Wirth', on: vogue.fr, 21 October 2024, ill.
White, David, 'Interiority is Complex: Rashid Johnson at Hauser & Wirth, Paris', on: artmag.co.uk, 16 October 2024, ill.
Chaizemartin, Julie, 'Rashid Johnson' [review], in: Transfuge, October 2024
De Micco, Luana, 'Rashid Johnson, star della Post-black Art, da Hauser & Wirth', on: ilgiornaledellarte.com, 9 October 2024, ill.
Lesser, Casey, 'Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Amy Sherald, and others donate works to “Artists for Kamala” benefit sale staged by Artsy', on: artsy.net, 27 September 2024, ill.

Valentine, Victoria L., 'Next Spring: Major Mid-Career Survey of Rashid Johnson Will Unfold Throughout the Grand Rotunda of Guggenheim Museum', on: culturetype.com, 14 September 2024, ill.
Haddad, Natalie, Vartanian, Hrag, Di Liscia, Valentina, 'Art Shows to See in New York Right Now', on: hyperallergic.com, 10 September 2024
Jacquet, Matthieu, 'Rashid Johnson: "Je vois la peinture comme une méditation mouvante"', in: GESTE/S, no. 11, Fall 2024, ill.
Carollo, Elisa, 'The Must-See Gallery Shows Opening During Armory Week', on: observer.com, 3 September 2024
Yablonsky, Linda, 'New York exhibition places brutality of Leon Golub's paintings in dialogue with contemporary artists', on: theartnewspaper.com, 3 September 2024, ill.
Villa, Angelica, 'Guggenheim to Hold Mid-Career Survey for Former Trustee Rashid Johnson', on: artnews.com, 27 August 2024, ill.
Sheets, Hilarie M., 'Rashid Johnson Will Have Career Survey at Guggenheim in 2025', on: nytimes.com, 26 August 2024, ill.
Carollo, Elisa, 'Rashid Johnson Is Curating a Show Around Leon Golub’s Work at Hauser & Wirth', on: observer.com, 1 August 2024, ill.
___, 'Group exhibition curated by artist Rashid Johnson on view at David Kordansky Gallery', on: artdaily.com, 15 July 2024, ill.
Cavallaro, Nicolette, 'Palm Beach's Candace Barasch Shares Advice For Novice Collectors Looking to Match Her Star-Studded Trove', on: culturedmag.com, 12 July 2024, ill.

___, 'Naomi Beckwith on 5 Artworks in the Guggenheim Collection', on: ocula.com, 4 April 2024, ill.
Gordon, Devin, 'Rashid Johnson Would Like to Apologize to Steve Bartman', on: gq.com, 28 March 2024, ill.
Berlinger, Max, 'Two Artists Make a Home for Their Family, and Their Collection', on: nytimes.com, 18 March 2024, ill.
Saffron, Inga, 'Split and Set. Leong Leong delivers an elevated, arts-oriented apartment building for Ray Philly', on: archpaper.com, 8 February 2024, ill.