On the Wall, Grand Palais, Paris, France (2018) and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940-2017, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY (2017). A Time for Dreams, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, (2019) Groundings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2019) Collection: a Selection of African Artworks, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2018) Michael Jackson. Crosshairs most recent crop of screenprinted posters include new posters for Wilco, Sunn0))), The Black Keys, Wilco, Monks of Doom, June of 44, Blink-182, Black Mountain and more. Recent group exhibitions include Grace Wales Bonner. Moritz, Switzerland (2019) Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2017) The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (2017) Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2016) The Drawing Center, New York, (2015) The High Line, New York NY (2015) High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA (2013), among many others. His recent solo exhibitions include Hauser & Wirth, St. SculptureCenter commissioned Johnson's first solo museum exhibition in New York, Smoke and Mirrors, in 2009. Rashid Johnson was born in Chicago in 1977, and lives and works in New York. Concerned equally with 20th Century art history, popular culture and African American intellectual history, Johnson cites Sun Ra, Joseph Beuys, Rosalind Krauss, Richard Pryor, Hans Haacke, Carl Andre among his influences. Johnson uses materials such as steel, poured wax, and shea butter, while juxtaposing relics and artifacts in an approach that flirts with the shamanistic. Johnson engages with racial identity in ways that insist on fluidity and contradiction. The shape of the brand may take on many different abstract and representational forms, including circles, diamonds, palm trees, and the crosshair being a recurrent motif throughout his most recent work. Crosshair Brand is a sculpture in two parts that presents a tool Rashid Johnson uses to mark the surfaces of many large scale paintings.
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