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Rashid Johnson    (American, 1977)

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Biography
1977 Born in Chicago
1997 Presidential Purchase Award for Photography, Columbia College
1998 Presidential Purchase Award for Photography, Columbia College
1998 Received Albert P. Weisman Grant
2000 Columbia College, Chicago, IL, BA
2004 - 2005 School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions
2009 Under Control curated but Ginger Gregg Duggan, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2008 Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of American LaSalle Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2008 Creswell Crags, Lisa Cooley, New York
2008 Ah, Decadence curated by Lisa Wainright, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL (August)
2008 Zero Zone curated by David Hunt, Tracey Williams, Ltd., NY
2008 Recent Acquisitions: Focus on Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2008 Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2008 The Dead Lecturer, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Blackness, Magdeburger Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg, Germany
2008 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy
2008 moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 annarumma 404, Naples, Italy (nov) (solo)
2008 The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center, moniquemeloche, Chicago (sept) (solo)
2008 Cosmic Slops, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (sept) (solo)
2008 Sharpening My Oyster Knife, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany (june) (solo)
2007 Projet Est-Ouest, Espace 72, Dison, Verviers, Belgium , Curated by Claude Degueldre
2007 MCA Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 For the Love of the Game: Race and Sports, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Athenaeum
2007 Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Curated by Franklin Sirmans and Rehema Barber
2007 Look Into The Rays…, (in collaboration with Rob Davis and Mike Langlois), moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Color Line , Luanda Triennial, Luanda, Angola, Curated by Odili Donald Odita; travels to: Jack Shainman
2007 Gallery, New York, NY; CIEL, Centre international d'exposition de Larouche, Canada, (Fall 2007);
2007 University of South Africa Art Gallery, UNISA, Pretoria, (Spring 2008)
2007 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy (solo)
2007 Dark Matters, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
2006 Look Into the Rays of the New Solar Sun Rising, Markus Winter Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006 Scarecrow, Postmasters, New York, NY. Curated by David Hunt
2006 A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: colors, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany
2005 Young, Gifted and Black, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy (solo)
2005 Stay Black and Die, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2005 The Production of Escapism, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN (solo)
2005 NAPOLI PRESENTE Posizioni e Prospettive dell-Arte Contemporarea, PAN Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy
2005 Wish, COCA Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
2005 *Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, San Diego Museum of Art and Museum of
2005 Photographic Arts, CA, Curated by Coco Fusco
2005 *Crossings: 10 artists from Kaohsiung & Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center (July), Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Co-curated by Greg Knight & Tseng Fangling
2005 Prague International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 In Search of a Continuous Present, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Lynne Warren
2005 Not Too Loose and Not Too Tight, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2004 *Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Curated by Coco Fusco
2004 A Perfect Union…More or Less, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Hamza Walker
2004 Solo project booth, moniquemeloche gallery, LISTE The Young Art Fair in Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2004 About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2004 Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
2004 Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2004 The Perfect Number, 404contemporanea, Naples, Italy
2003 *Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, ICP, New York, NY, Curated by Coco Fusco
2003 *The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Curated by Olukemi Ilesanmi
2003 A Century of Collection: African American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Daniel Schulman
2003 The Rise and Fall of the Proper Negro, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago IL (solo)
2002 12x12: New Artist/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
2002 New Work, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2002 Manumission Papers, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV
2002 Cut, Pulled, Colored, and Burnt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, Curated by Michael Rooks
2001 *Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Curated by Thelma Golden
2001 Bastard (son of hot sauce), Law Office, Chicago IL
2001 Musings: Contemporizing Tradition, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, Curated by Kathryn Hixson and Nathan Mason
2000 A Decade of Acquisitions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2000 Manumission Papers, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI (solo)
1999 Seeing In the Dark, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1999 New Artists, Old Techniques, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
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