New York based artist Rashid Johnson was born in Chicago and studied in the photography department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Johnson’s work quickly expanded to embrace a wide range of media – including sculpture, painting, drawing, film-making, and installation – yielding a complex multidisciplinary practice that incorporates diverse materials rich with symbolism and personal history. Rashid Johnson is among an influential cadre of contemporary American artists whose work explores themes of art history, individual and shared cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy, materiality, and critical history.