Rashaad Newsome

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 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.

2020

Artist Residency, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

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