RASHID JOHNSON Born 1977 | Lives and works in New York NY, USA EDUCATION 2005 School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL, USA 2000 Bachelor of Arts | Columbia College, Chicago IL, USA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Fly Away | Hauser & Wirth, New York NY, USA Rashid Johnson: Within Our Gates | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Rashid Johnson: Reasons | GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy 2015 Shea Wall | Grand Palais, Paris, France New American Art | Studio des Acacias, Paris, France Anxious Men | The Drawing Center, New York NY, USA Blocks | The High Line, New York NY, USA Smile | Hauser & Wirth, London, England 2014 Islands | David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA Magic Numbers | George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece Three Rooms | Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland New Growth | Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Denver CO, USA 2013 New Growth | Ballroom Marfa, Marfa TX, USA The gathering | Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks | High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA, USA Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks | Kemper Art Museum St. Louis MO, USA Message to Our Folks, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Atlanta GA, USA 2012 Coup d‘état’ | Los Angeles LA, USA Rumble | Hauser & Wirth, David Kordansky Gallery, New York NY, USA Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks | Miami Art Museum, Miami FL, USA Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Shelter | South London Gallery, London, England 2010 Between Nothingness and Eternity | Carlson/Massimo De Carlo, London, England There are Stranger Villages | Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany 25 Days after October | Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy Our Kind of People | Salon 94, New York NY, USA 2009 Other Aspects | David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA The Dead Lecturer: Laboratory, Dojo, and Performance Space | Power House Memphis, Memphis TN, USA Smoke and Mirrors | Sculpture Center, Long Island City NY, USA 2008 Sharpening My Oyster Knife | Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany The Dead Lecturer | Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York NY, USA Cosmic Slops | Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL, USA 2007 Dark Matters | James Harris Gallery, Seattle WA, USA 2005 The Production of Escapism | Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis IN, USA 2003 The Rise and Fall of the Proper Negro | Moniquemeloche Gallery, Chicago IL, USA 2002 12×12: New Artist/New Work | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 The Inaugural Exhibition | MAKASIINI CONTEMPORARY, Turku, Finland For Freedoms | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York NY, USA Blackness in Abstraction | Pace Gallery, New York NY, USA Woven | 60 Wall Gallery, New York NY, USA Route to (Re)Settlement | Palmetto Curatorial Exchange at Mann-Simons, Columbia SC, USA [email protected] | +358 50 3259 444 | www.makasiinicontemporary.com 2015 Salon d’Hiver | Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism | The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity | Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg VA, USA Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim | Guggenheim, New York NY, USA America is Hard to See | The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now | MCA Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection | Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham NC, USA Relationships and Representations: Perspectives on Social Justice Work | Mildred Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis MO, USA 2014 Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX, USA Black Eye | 57 Walker Street, New York NY, USA Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection | Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami FL, USA 30 Americans | Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans LA, USA From the Collection: Looking at process | De La Cruz Collection, Miami FL, USA INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, The Botanica (presented by AA Bronson & Michael Facets) | Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN, USA Variations: Conversations In and Around Abstract Painting | LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Look at me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present | Leila Heller Gallery, New York NY, USA Secret Passions. Private Flemish Collections | Lille 3000, Euralille, France CoDM Ceremonies of Dark Men | Lincoln Theatre, Washington DC, USA Body Doubles | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Forever Now: Painting in the New Millennium | The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World | The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA George Nakashima: In Conversation | Untitled, New York NY, USA Music Palace. The power of music seen by visual artists | Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Other Ways; Other Times: Influences of African-American Traditions from St. Louis Collections | Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis MO, USA Look At Me Now! | Monique Meloche, Chicago IL, USA Man in the Mirror | Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict: Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection | CIFO Art Space, Miami FL, USA 2013 White Collar Crimes | Acquavella Galleries, New York NY, USA Angel of History | Beaux-arts de Paris: L‘école nationale supérieure, Paris, France Island | Dairy Art Centre, London, England Painting in Place | LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles CA, USA Darkness Visible | National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China RUN | Merci-Mercy, New York NY, USA 2012 Re-activation | Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China 30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection | Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia Beach, VA, USA (Travelling Exhibition) An architect’s dream | Curator’s Office, Washington DC, USA Heute. Malerei | Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany CARA DOMANI | MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy In the Holocene | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA, USA 2011 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy you, your sun and shadow | Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts, Virginia VA, USA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (Travelling Exhibition) Livingroom Exotica | Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland Dwelling | Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York NY, USA Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection | The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC, USA 30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection | The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, USA INTERNAL / EXTERNAL AFFAIRS | Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to Germany, Berlin, Germany [email protected] | +358 50 3259 444 | www.makasiinicontemporary.com American Exuberance | Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence | Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; CAPC de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Converging Voices, Transforming Dialogue | University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston TX, USA With one color… | Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York NY, USA 2010 Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines | Bortolami Gallery, New York NY, USA Re-dressing | Bortolami Gallery, New York NY, USA At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg | Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA About Us | Johann König, Berlin, Germany Lush Life | Lehmann Maupin, New York NY, USA Item | Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York NY, USA From Then to Now: Masterworks of African American Art | MOCA, Cleveland OH, USA Selected Works from the MCA Collection: Focus on UBS 12×12 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project | National Arts Club, New York NY, USA (LEAN) | Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York NY, USA Hope! A contemporary art exhibition | Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France David Adamo, Heather Cook, Brendan Fowler, Rashid Johnson, Phil Wagner | UNTITLED, New York NY, USA 2009 Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other | Illinois State Museum, Chicago IL, USA Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor | Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA Under Control | Krannert Art Museum, Champaign IL, USA Beg, Borrow and Steal | Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA 30 Seconds off an Inch | Studio Museum Harlem, New York NY, USA 2008 Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of American LaSale Collection | Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, USA Summer Mixtape Volume 1: the Get Smart edition | Exit Art, New York NY, USA Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other | Illinois State Museum Springfield IL, USA 30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection | Miami FL, USA Ah, Decadence | School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL, USA Zero Zone | Tracey Williams, Ltd., New York NY, USA 2007 For the Love of the Game: Race and Sports | The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford CT, USA Color Line, Luanda Triennial in Angola | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York NY, USA MCA Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA 2006 American Identities, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York NY, USA A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: colors | Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg,