Born in Chicago IL, 1977
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Chicago IL, 2000
School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Chicago IL, 2004 – 2005
Lives and works in New York NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013
Ballroom Marfa, Texas TX
High Museum of Art, Atlanta ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, Atlanta GA
Kemper Art Museum, ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, St. Louis MO
2012
David Kordansky Gallery, ‘Coup d’état’, Los Angeles LA
Miami Art Museum, ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, Miami FL
South London Gallery, ‘Shelter’, London, England
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Rumble’, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks’, Chicago IL
2010
Massimo De Carlo, ‘25 Days after October’, Milan, Italy
Carlson/Massimo De Carlo, ‘Between Nothingness and Eternity’, London, England
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, ‘There are Stranger Villages’, Berlin, Germany
Salon 94, ‘Our Kind of People’, New York NY
2009
David Kordansky Gallery, ‘Other Aspects’, Los Angeles CA
Sculpture Center, ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, Long Island City NY
Power House Memphis, ‘The Dead Lecturer: Laboratory, Dojo, and Performance Space’, Memphis TN
2008
Richard Gray Gallery, ‘Cosmic Slops’, Chicago IL
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, ‘Sharpening My Oyster Knife’, Magdeburg, Germany
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, ‘The Dead Lecturer’, New York NY
2007
James Harris Gallery, ‘Dark Matters’, Seattle WA
2005
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘The Production of Escapism’, Indianapolis IN
2003
The Rise and Fall of the Proper Negro, moniquemeloche, Chicago IL
2002
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘12×12: New Artist/New Work’, Chicago IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, ‘HEUTE MALEREI’, Magdeburg, Germany
2012 Shanghai Biennale- REACTIVATION, Shanghai, China
Curator’s Office, ‘An architect’s dream’, Washington DC, WA
Chrysler Museum of Art, ‘30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection’, Virginia Beach, VA (Travelling exhibition)
2011
Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts, ‘you, your sun and shadow’, Virginia, VA
Rubell Family Collection, ‘American Exuberance’, Miami FL
Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to Germany, ‘INTERNAL / EXTERNAL AFFAIRS’, Berlin, Germany
University Museum, Texas Southern University, ‘Converging Voices, Transforming Dialogue’, Houston TX
Van de Weghe Fine Art, ‘With one color…’, New York NY
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, ‘Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection’, Durham NC
54th Venice Biennale, ‘ILLUMInations’, Venice, Italy
The North Carolina Museum of Art, ‘30 Americans, The Rubell Family Collection’, Raleigh NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion’ Chicago IL
Kunsthaus Glarus, ‘Livingroom Exotica’, Glarus, Switzerland
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, ‘Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence’, Frankfurt, Germany; CAPC de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Marianne Boesky Gallery, ‘Dwelling’, New York NY
2010
Lehmann Maupin, ‘Lush Life’, New York NY
National Arts Club, ‘Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project’, New York NY
UNTITLED, ‘David Adamo, Heather Cook, Brendan Fowler, Rashid Johnson, Phil Wagner’, New York NY
Bortolami Gallery, ‘Re-dressing’ New York NY
Johann König, ‘About Us’, Berlin, Germany
Palais des Arts et du Festival, ‘Hope! A contemporary art exhibition’, Dinard, France
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, ‘Item’, New York NY
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, ‘At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg’, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, ‘(LEAN)’, New York NY
Bortolami Gallery, ‘Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines’, New York NY
MOCA, ‘From Then to Now: Masterworks of African American Art’, Cleveland OH
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Selected Works from the MCA Collection: Focus on UBS 12×12’, Chicago, IL
2009
Rubell Family Collection, ‘Beg, Borrow and Steal’, Miami FL
Studio Museum Harlem, ‘30 Seconds off an Inch’, New York NY
Krannert Art Museum, ‘Under Control’, Champaign IL
Katonah Museum of Art, ‘Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor’, Katonah, NY
Illinois State Museum, ‘Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other’, Chicago IL
2008
The Rubell Family Collection, ‘30 Americans’, Miami FL
Chicago Cultural Center, ‘Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of American LaSale Collection’, Chicago IL
Illinois State Museum, ‘Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other’, Springfield IL
School of the Art Institute, ‘Ah, Decadence’, Chicago IL
Exit Art, ‘Summer Mixtape Volume 1: the Get Smart edition’, New York NY
Tracey Williams, Ltd., ‘Zero Zone’, New York NY
2007
Luanda Triennial in Angola, Jack Shainman Gallery, ‘Color Line’, New York NY
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, ‘For the Love of the Game: Race and Sports’, Hartford CT
Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago, ‘MCA Exposed:Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007’, Chicago IL
2006
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, ‘A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: colors’, Magdeburg, Germany
Brooklyn Museum of Art, ‘American Identities’, New York NY
Postmasters, ‘Scarecrow’, New York NY
2005
PAN Contemporary Art Museum, ‘NAPOLI PRESENTE Posizioni e Prospettive dell-Arte Contemporarea’, Naples, Italy
COCA Center of Contemporary Art, ‘Wish’, Seattle WA
San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, ‘Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self’, San Diego CA
Chicago Cultural Center, ‘Crossings: 10 artists from Kaohsiung & Chicago’, Chicago IL (Travelling exhibition)
International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Prague, Czech Republic
MCA Chicago, ‘In Search of a Continuous Present’, Chicago IL
Pan/Sonic, Chicago Gallery, Northern Illinois University School of Art, Chicago IL
2004
Seattle Art Museum, ‘Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self’, Seattle WA
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, ‘A Perfect Union…More or Less’, Chicago IL
Art Institute of Chicago, ‘About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection’, Chicago IL
Corcoran Museum of Art, ‘Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art’, Washington DC
Whitney Museum, ‘Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection’, New York NY
2003
ICP New York, ‘Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self’, New York NY
Walker Art Center, ‘The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art’, Minneapolis MN
Art Institute of Chicago, ‘A Century of Collecting: African American Art’, Chicago IL
2002
Sunrise Museum, ‘Manumission Papers’, Charleston WV
Hyde Park Art Center, ‘Cut, Pulled, Colored, and Burnt’, Chicago IL
2001
Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Freestyle’, New York NY
2000
Detroit Institute of Arts, ‘A Decade of Acquisitions’, Detroit MI
