Rashaad Newsome (born 1979) is an American artist working at the intersection of technology, collage, sculpture, video, music, and performance. He lives and works in Oakland, California and Brooklyn, New York.
Education Rashaad Newsome holds a 2023 honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, a B.F.A. in art history from Tulane University (2001) in New Orleans, and a certificate of study in digital post production from Film/Video Arts Inc, New York (2004). In 2005 he studied MAX/MSP programming at Harvestworks 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 in Manhattan, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow; and MUSA, 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, Los Angeles; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; 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 in New Britain, Connecticut. In 2010 he participated in the Whitney Biennial in New York, and in 2011 Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York.
In addition to being in art, Newsome runs a production company, Rashaad Newsome Studio.
In 2019, with a LACMA Art + Technology Lab's Grant, Newsome created the first generation of his 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.
Since that time, Newsome has been in residence at The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
Selected images
Awards 2021
Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, Knight Foundation
2020
Artist Residency, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Rapid Response Fellowship, Eyebeam
2019
Art + Technology Lab Grant, LACMA MediaMaker Fellowship, BAVC
2018
William Penn Foundation Grant Live Feed Creative Residency, New York Live Arts
2017
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Gold Rush Award, Rush Arts
2016
Artist Residency at the Tamarind Institute, New Mexico
2014
Visiting Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts
2011
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 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 Center for Art & Culture, San Francisco
2019
ICON/STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
2017
Reclaiming Our Time, Debuck Gallery, New York, New York Mélange, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
2016
STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!, DeBuck Gallery, New York, New York THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2015
Order of Chivalry, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia Silence Please The Show Is About To Begin, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
2014
LS.S, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York FIVE, The Drawing Center, New York, New York
2013
King of Arms, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
2011
Herald, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York Rashaad Newsome/MATRIX 161, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
2010
Honorable Ordinaries, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, New York Futuro, ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy
2009
Standards, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, New York
Group exhibitions 2022
In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery, London
2021
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
2020
Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California After La vida nueva, Artists Space, New York, New York
2019
Elements of Vogue, El Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City Radical Love, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, New York
2018
Something to Say, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2017
Elements of Vogue, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Public Movement, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
2015
A Curious Blindness, Columbia University, New York, New York
2014
Killer Heels, Brooklyn Museum, 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, SFMOMA, San Francisco The Bearden Project, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
2011
Beauty Contest, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, New York, United States / MUSA, Vienna, Austria Venice Biennale: "Commercial Break", Garage Projects, Venice, Italy
2010
Free, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York Whitney Biennial, New York, New York Prospect 1.5, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans
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, Brooklyn Museum Doris Zhao, Amanda Hunt (2016); This is What I Want to See!, exhibition catalogue, the Studio Museum in Harlem 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, Marlborough Gallery 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, MoMA PS1 (2010) Whitney Biennial, exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art
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