Rashaad Newsome (born 1979) is an American artist working at the intersection of technology, collage, sculpture, video, music, and performance. Newsome's work celebrates and abstracts Black and queer contributions to the art canon, resulting in innovative and inclusive forms of culture and media. He lives and works in

Oakland Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast port, Oakland is ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

and

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Education

Rashaad Newsome holds a 2023 honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts from the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...

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, a B.F.A. in art history from

Tulane University The Tulane University of Louisiana (commonly referred to as Tulane University) is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by a cohort of medical doctors, it b ...

(2001) in

New Orleans New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...

, and a certificate of study in digital post production from Film/Video Arts Inc, New York (2004). In 2005 he studied

MAX/MSP Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, pe ...

programming at

Harvestworks Harvestworks is a not-for-profit arts organization located in New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's ...

Digital Media Art Center in New York.

Career

His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world including the

Park Avenue Armory The Park Avenue Armory, also known as the 7th Regiment Armory, is a historic armory for the U.S. Army National Guard at 643 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed in the Gothic Revival style ...

in Manhattan, the

Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an African-American art museum at 144 West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Founded in 1968, the museum collects, preserves and interprets art created by African A ...

, New York; the

National Museum of African American History and Culture The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was established in 2003 an ...

, Washington, D.C.;

The Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a modern and contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The institution was founde ...

, New York;

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heig ...

, New York;

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 2201 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

, Queens, New York;

SFMOMA The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has b ...

, San Francisco;

New Orleans Museum of Art The New Orleans Museum of Art (or NOMA) is the oldest art museum, fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans. It is situated within City Park (New Orleans), City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton ...

, New Orleans;

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

, Paris; the Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow; and

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, Vienna. Newsome's work is in numerous public and private collections including the Studio Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

, Los Angeles;

McNay Art Museum The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, is the first modern art museum in Texas. The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay's original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection and her 24-room Spanish Coloni ...

, San Antonio, Texas;

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the supp ...

; Richmond, Virginia; The Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the

New Britain Museum of American Art The New Britain Museum of American Art is an art museum in New Britain, Connecticut. Founded in 1903, it is the first museum in the country dedicated to American art. A total of 72,000 visits were made to the museum in the year ending June 30, 20 ...

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. In 2010 he participated in the

Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was held in 1973. It is considered ...

in New York, and in 2011 Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York. American writer and activist Darnell L. Moore said, "Newsome's object-based work exists between assemblage, collage, and sculpture. His works explode categories of being and raise questions about what images and objects one can use to suture a representation. His pulling together of found images used to construct a body of work is analogous to the process one must go through to build a self. What parts do we rid?... which do we seek to create? Newsome's oeuvre is more than the work of a visual artist; it is an ontological project." In 2013 Newsome launched his annual King of Arms Art Ball, a live performance event that brings together renowned figures from the art, fashion, music, literary, activism, and LGBTQAI+ Ballroom community. Since the creation of the King of Arms Art Ball, Newsome has been using the architecture of ballroom as a way to get people to think critically about the ways in which the culture of domination is at play in their lives. He hopes to remove from ballroom what he calls a focus on the gender binary and allegiance to capitalism. Instead he asks participants to focus on their creativity. For him, a big part of the King of Arms Art Ball, is thinking about the ways that we have not only colonized our minds but our imaginations. How do we decolonize our imaginations? How do we use them in the service of our own wellbeing or as a form of resistance? The King of Arms Art Ball continues the tradition of these historic Harlem-originating competitions but focuses all of its categories on the work and legacy of BIPOC LQBTQAI+ artists. The King of Arms Art Ball creates a platform to celebrate queer artists of color, engage in critical pedagogy, explore contemporary social justice issues, and provide space for emerging artists to showcase their work. Past categories were inspired by

El Anatsui El Anatsui (; born 4 February 1944) is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria. He has drawn particular international attention for his "Bottle cap, bottle-top installations". These installations consist of thousands of Alum ...

, the

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Lorna Simpson Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became one of the first African-American women to exhibit at the Venice Bien ...

Bill T. Jones William Tass Jones, known as Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952), is an American Choreography, choreographer, director, author and dancer. He is the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The company's home in Manhattan. J ...

, and other visionaries. In addition to being in art, Newsome runs a production company, Rashaad Newsome Studio. It is a full-service production company specializing in the convergence of film, art, media, design, live performance, music, fashion, and technology, working with some of the industry's most visionary talent and brands including

Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recor ...

Solange Knowles Solange Piaget Knowles (; born June 24, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She expressed an interest in music from an early age and had temporary stints as a backup dancer for Destiny's Child, which featured her older sister ...

ASAP Mob ASAP Mob (stylized as A$AP Mob) is an American hip-hop collective formed in 2006 in Harlem, New York City, that consists of rappers (most of whom carry the "ASAP" moniker; except Da$H and Playboi Carti), record producers, music video directors, ...

Absolut Absolut Vodka is a brand of vodka, produced near Åhus, in southern Sweden. Absolut is a part of the French group Pernod Ricard. Pernod Ricard bought Absolut for €5.63 billion in 2008 (equivalent to € in ) from the Swedish state. Absolut ...

Lamborghini Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. ( , ), usually referred to as Lamborghini or colloquially Lambo, is an Italian manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs based in Sant'Agata Bolognese. The company is owned by the Volkswagen Group through its su ...

, Alexander Wang,

Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics. Yamamoto has won notable awards fo ...

Jonathan Adler Jonathan Adler (born August 11, 1966, in Bridgeton, New Jersey) is an American potter, interior decorator, and author. Adler launched his first ceramic collection in 1993 at Barneys New York. Five years later he expanded into home furnishings, ...

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, and

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. In 2019, with a LACMA Art + Technology Lab's Grant, Newsome created the first generation of his unique and provocative Artificial Intelligence, Being 1.0, which functioned as a critical tour guide to his 2020 exhibition To Be Real at Fort Mason Center for Art and Culture, in

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

. During Being's interactions with viewers they explore a variety of challenging topics: * Art historical erasure * The social implications of artificial intelligence regarding rights and liberties * Labor and automation * The importance of the imagination as a form of liberation * The subjectivity of body autonomy within an inherently inequitable society At various points in Being's tour, the phrase "Girl, bye, I need to express myself." is heard. At those moments, the frame pulls back from the avatar's bust/head to show Being's full-body dancing to the song

Got To Be Real "Got to Be Real" is a song by American singer Cheryl Lynn from her 1978 self-titled debut studio album. The song, which was released in August 1978 as Lynn's debut single, was written by Lynn, David Paich and David Foster. Composition Sheet mus ...

. Periodically, "Look, booboo, I just can't." is also said and the tour script is interrupted to read excerpts from radical theorists like

Bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Be ...

Paulo Freire Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher whose work revolutionized global thought on education. He is best known for ''Pedagogy of the Oppressed'', in which he reimagines teaching ...

Cornel West Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, theologian, political activist, politician, social critic, and public intellectual. West was an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election and is an ou ...

, or

James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'' has been ranked ...

as a simulation of their agency and or resistance against their indentured servitude. Since that time, Newsome has been in residence at The

Stanford Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and th ...

Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, where he is developing a spin-off calle
Being 1.5
a mobile/web-based therapy app created to exclusively help African American people manage trauma from daily racial indignities, as well as the second generation of the IRL version called Being 2.0(The Digital Griot). which premiered in Newsome's 2022 solo exhibition at the

Drill Hall. In the artist's words, "Being 2.0 is a reimagining of non-Eurocentric archive and education models like the

griot A griot (; ; Manding languages, Manding: or (in N'Ko script, N'Ko: , or in French spelling); also spelt Djali; or / ; ) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. Griots are masters of communicatin ...

, a

West African West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ma ...

cultural figure that acts as a historian, library, performance artist, and healer. As a digital griot, Being's purpose is to help humans radically decolonize their minds through workshops that combine lecture, critical thinking, dance, storytelling, EMDR therapy, and

mindfulness Mindfulness is the cognitive skill, usually developed through exercises, of sustaining metacognitive awareness towards the contents of one's own mind and bodily sensations in the present moment. The term ''mindfulness'' derives from the Pali ...

meditation. Described by the ''New York Times'' as "gracious and humble… sweet, sassy and a bit goofy," Being's approach to education is active and brings new possibilities for research and an enhanced academic experience for all people.

Selected images

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Awards

2021 * ''Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship'',

Knight Foundation The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also known as the Knight Foundation, is an American non-profit foundation that provides grants for journalism, communities, and the arts. The organization was founded as the Knight Memorial Education ...

2020 * Artist Residency, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence * ''Rapid Response Fellowship'', Eyebeam 2019 * ''Art + Technology Lab Grant'',

LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

* ''MediaMaker Fellowship'', BAVC 2018 *

William Penn Foundation The William Penn Foundation is a grant-making foundation established in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by businessman Otto Haas and his wife Phoebe, and initially called the Phoebe Waterman Foundation. It strives to improve "the quality ...

Grant * ''Live Feed Creative Residency'',

New York Live Arts New York Live Arts (Live Arts) is a movement-focused arts organization in New York City that serves as the home of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The building was formerly the home of Dance Theatre Workshop, with which the Bill T. J ...

2017 *

Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing funding to visual artists internationally to further their artistic practices. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expr ...

Grant * ''Gold Rush Award'', Rush Arts 2016 * Artist Residency at the

Tamarind Institute Tamarind Institute is a lithography workshop created in 1960https://tamarind.unm.edu/about/history/ as a division of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, United States. It began as Tamarind Lithography Workshop, a California non-profi ...

New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...

2014 * Visiting Artist Residency,

Headlands Center for the Arts Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, and interdisciplinary public programs. It is situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, in Marin County, Cali ...

2011 *

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation was founded in 1918 by Louis Comfort Tiffany to operate his estate, Laurelton Hall, in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. It was designed to be a summer retreat for artists and craftspeople. In 1946 the estate ...

Award 2010 * Urban Artist Initiative Individual Artist Grant 2009 * Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Arts Grant

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2022 * ''Assembly'', Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall, New York, New York 2020 * ''Black Magic'', Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, New York * ''To Be Real'',

Fort Mason Fort Mason, in San Francisco, California is a former United States Army post located in the northern Marina District, alongside San Francisco Bay. Fort Mason served as an Army post for more than 100 years, initially as a coastal defense site a ...

Center for Art & Culture, San Francisco 2019 * ''ICON/STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!'',

Museum of the African Diaspora The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco, California. MoAD holds exhibitions and presents artists exclusively of the African diaspora, one of only a few museums of its kind in the United States. Loc ...

, San Francisco 2017 * ''Reclaiming Our Time'', Debuck Gallery, New York, New York * ''Mélange'',

Contemporary Arts Center The Contemporary Arts Center (abbreviated CAC) is a contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in pain ...

, New Orleans, Louisiana 2016 * ''STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!'', DeBuck Gallery, New York, New York * ''THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE'',

, New York 2015 * ''Order of Chivalry'',

Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France. It was founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the United ...

, Savannah, Georgia * ''Silence Please The Show Is About To Begin'', Art Gallery of

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

2014 * ''LS.S'',

Marlborough Gallery Marlborough Fine Art was founded in London in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer. In 1963, a gallery was opened as Marlborough-Gerson in Manhattan, New York, at the Fuller Building on Madison Avenue and 57th Street, which later relocated in ...

, New York, New York * ''FIVE'',

The Drawing Center The Drawing Center is a museum and a nonprofit exhibition space in Manhattan, New York City, that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. History The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of dr ...

, New York, New York 2013 * ''King of Arms'',

, New Orleans 2011 * ''Herald'', Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York * ''Rashaad Newsome/MATRIX 161'',

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, ancient Egyptian and Classical bronzes, French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School lands ...

, Hartford, Connecticut 2010 * ''Honorable Ordinaries'', Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, New York * ''Futuro'', ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum,

Bolzano, Italy Bolzano ( ; ; or ) is the capital city of South Tyrol (officially the province of Bolzano), Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The g ...

2009 * ''Standards'', Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, New York

Group exhibitions

2022 * ''In the Black Fantastic'',

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Royal ...

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

2021 * ''The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse'',

, Richmond, Virginia 2020 * ''Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism'',

Oakland Museum of California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

, Oakland, California * ''After La vida nueva'',

Artists Space Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization first established at 155 Wooster Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1972 by Irving Sandler and Trudie Grace and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts ...

, New York, New York 2019 * ''Elements of Vogue'', El Museo Universitario del Chopo,

Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...

* ''Radical Love'', Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, New York 2018 * ''Something to Say'',

, San Antonio, Texas 2017 * ''Elements of Vogue'', Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo,

Madrid, Spain Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

* ''Public Movement'',

Moderna Museet Malmö Moderna Museet Malmö is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Malmö, Sweden. It is a part of the state-owned Moderna Museet Moderna Museet is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skepps ...

, Malmö, Sweden 2015 * ''A Curious Blindness'',

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, New York, New York 2014 * ''Killer Heels'',

, New York, New York * ''Black Eye'', New York, New York 2013 * ''Goddess Clap Back: Hip Hop Feminism in Art'', CUE Art Foundation, New York, New York 2012 * ''It’s Time to Dance Now'', Centre national d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris * ''Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media'',

, San Francisco * ''The Bearden Project'', the

, New York, New York 2011 * ''Beauty Contest'', Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, New York, United States / MUSA,

Vienna, Austria Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

* ''Venice Biennale: "Commercial Break"'', Garage Projects,

Venice, Italy Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 438 bridge ...

2010 * ''Free'',

The New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-nam ...

, New York, New York * ''Greater New York'',

, Long Island City, New York * ''

'', New York, New York * ''Prospect 1.5'', Good Children Gallery, New Orleans

Inspiration

Rashaad Newsome's work blends several practices including collage, assemblage, sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance to create a new field which rejects classification. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, art history, Black and queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that walks the tightrope between creative computing, social practice, abstraction, and intersectionality. The gesture of collage acts as a theoretical, conceptual, and technical method to construct a new cultural framework of power that does not find the oppression of others necessary. Newsome's work celebrates Black contributions to the art canon creating innovative and inclusive forms of culture and media.

Bibliography

* Weiyi Chang (2020); Sofa Jamal, Colleen O’Connor, and Patricio Orellana, ''After La vida Nueva'', exhibition catalogue, Artists Space, New York * Jasmine Wahi (2020); ''To Be Real'', exhibition catalogue, PPAC & Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco * Manuel Segade Lodeiro, Sabel Gavaldon (2019); ''Elements of Vogue: un caso de estudio de performance radical;'' Comunidad de Madrid; Publicaciones Oficiales * Alok Vaid-Menon (2017); ''Reclaiming Our Time'', exhibition catalogue, De Buck Gallery * (2014) ''Killer Heels'', exhibition catalogue,

* Doris Zhao, Amanda Hunt (2016); ''This is What I Want to See!'', exhibition catalogue, the Studio Museum in

Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and Central Park North on the south. The greater ...

* Darnell L. Moore, Jasmine Wahi (2016); ''Stop Playing in my Face!'', exhibition catalogue, De Buck Gallery * Veronica Sekules (2014); ''L.egends S.tatements S.tars'', exhibition catalogue,

* Kleinberg Romanow, Evan Garza (2014); ''FIVE'', exhibition catalogue, The Drawing Center * Amani Olu (2011); ''Herald'', exhibition catalogue, Marlborough Gallery * Luigi Fassi (2010); ''Greater New York'', exhibition catalogue,

* (2010) ''Whitney Biennial'', exhibition catalogue,

Whitney Museum The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...

of American Art

References

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