Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome
Born1979 (age 45–46)
Alma materTulane University (BA) The University of Connecticut (Dr. hc)

Rashaad Newsome (born 1979) is an American artist working at the intersection of technology, collage, sculpture, video, music, and performance.[1][2][3] 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).[1] In 2005 he studied MAX/MSP programming at Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center in New York.[1]

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.[4]

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.[2]

Since that time, Newsome has been in residence at The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.[3]

Selected images

Awards

2021

2020

  • Artist Residency, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence[3]
  • Rapid Response Fellowship, Eyebeam[6]

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014

2011

2010

  • Urban Artist Initiative Individual Artist Grant

2009

  • Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Arts Grant[16]

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2022

2020

2019

2017

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

2014

2013

2011

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

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2015

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

2011

2010

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

References

  1. ^ a b c "Rashaad Newsome – Biography". Jenkins Johnson Gallery. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  2. ^ a b Exhibition, Special. "Rashaad Newsome: To Be Real". Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  3. ^ a b c "Rashaad Newsome". Stanford HAI. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  4. ^ "Rashaad Newsome Studio". Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  5. ^ "Cyborgian Shade – Legacy Russell". www.shiftspace.pub. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  6. ^ "Rashaad Newsome". Eyebeam. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  7. ^ "2019 Art + Technology Lab Grant Recipients | Unframed". unframed.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  8. ^ Brittney (2019-03-01). "BAVC Announces the 2019 MediaMaker Fellows". BAVC. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  9. ^ "New York Live Arts to receive $366K for Rashaad Newsome's project FIVE". De Buck Gallery. 2018-09-29. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  10. ^ "Rashaad Newsome". New York Live Arts. 2021-05-10.
  11. ^ Selvin, Claire (2018-10-10). "Pollock-Krasner Foundation Names 2017–18 Grantees, Gives $100,000 to Madison Square Park Conservancy". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  12. ^ ago, News-5 years (2016-10-24). "The 2016 Gold Rush Awards Were A Celebration Of Art & Culture [Photos/Recap]". Okayplayer. Retrieved 2021-05-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Rashaad Newsome | Tamarind Institute". Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  14. ^ "Conversation: Rashaad Newsome with Amanda Hunt | Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans". cacno.org. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  15. ^ Boucher, Brian (2012-02-23). "Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards 30 Artist Grants". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  16. ^ "Gallery – Rema Hort Mann Foundation". Retrieved 2021-05-10.