Rashaad Newsome (born 1979) is an American artist working at the intersection of technology, collage, sculpture, video, music, and performance. Newsome's work celebrates and abstracts Black and Queer contributions to the art canon, resulting in innovative and inclusive forms of culture and media. He lives and works in

Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...

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, and

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Education

Rashaad holds a 2023 honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Arts from the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hart ...

and a B.F.A. in art history at

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private university, private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into ...

(2001) and a certificate of study in digital post production from Film/Video Arts Inc, New York (2004). In 2005 he studied

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programming at

Harvestworks Harvestworks is a not-for-profit arts organization located in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by artists supporting the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new technologies. The Harvestworks TEAM Lab (Technology ...

Digital Media Art Center, New York.

Career

His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, including the

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, New York,

The Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent. The museum's galleries are currently closed in preparation for a building project that will replace the current building, located at 144 W ...

, New York; the

National Museum of African American History and Culture The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was established in December 2003 and opened its permanent home in ...

, Washington, D.C.;

The Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

,, New York;

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

, New York;

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco;

New Orleans Museum of Art The New Orleans Museum of Art (or NOMA) is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the ...

, New Orleans;

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

, Paris; the

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, also referred to simply as ''The Garage Museum'', is a privately funded art gallery in Moscow. It was founded by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich as the ''Garage Center for Contemporary Culture'' in 2008 an ...

, Moscow; and

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, Vienna. Newsome's work is in numerous public and private collections, including the

Studio Museum The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent. The museum's galleries are currently closed in preparation for a building project that will replace the current building, located at 144 W ...

, New York;

, New York; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco;

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...

, Los Angeles;

McNay Art Museum The McNay Art Museum, founded in 1954 in San Antonio, is the first modern art museum in the U.S. state of Texas. The museum was created by Marion Koogler McNay's original bequest of most of her fortune, her important art collection and her 24-roo ...

, Texas;

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, or VMFA, is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations, endowments, and funds are used for the su ...

, Virginia, The Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin;

, Washington, D.C.; and The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut. In 2010 he participated in the

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, New York, and in 2011 Greater New York at

, New York. As American writer and activist

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notes, "Newsome's object-based work exists between assemblage, collage, and sculpture. His works explode categories of being and raise questions about what images and objects one can use to suture a representation. His pulling together of found images used to construct a body of work is analogous to the process one must go through to build a self. What parts do we rid? And which do we seek to create? Newsome's oeuvre is more than the work of a visual artist; it is an ontological project." In 2013 Rashaad launched his annual King of Arms Art Ball, a live performance event that brings together renowned figures from the art, fashion, music, literary, activism, and LGBTQAI+

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. Since the creation of the King of Arms Art Ball, Rashaad has been using the architecture of ballroom as a way to get people to think critically about the ways in which the culture of domination is at play in their lives. Rashaad hopes to remove from ballroom what he calls a focus on the gender binary and allegiance to capitalism. Instead, he asks participants to focus on their creativity. For Rashaad, a big part of the King of Arms Art Ball, is thinking about the ways that we have not only colonized our minds but our imaginations. How do we decolonize our imaginations? How do we use them in the service of our own wellbeing or as a form of resistance? The King of Arms Art Ball continues the tradition of these historic Harlem-originating competitions but focuses all of its categories on the work and legacy of BIPOC LQBTQAI+ artists. The King of Arms Art Ball creates a platform to celebrate queer artists of color, engage in critical pedagogy, explore contemporary social justice issues, and provide space for emerging artists to showcase their work. Past categories were inspired by such visionaries as

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, the

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, and

Bill T. Jones William Tass Jones, known as Bill T. Jones, (born February 15, 1952) is an American choreographer, director, author and dancer. He is the co-founder of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Ar ...

In addition to his very active art practice, Newsome runs his own production company, Rashaad Newsome Studio. Rashaad Newsome Studio is a full-service production company specializing in the convergence of film, art, media, design, live performance, music, fashion, and technology, working with some of the industry's most visionary talent and brands, including

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, ASAP Mob,

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, Alexander Wang,

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, and

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. In 2019, with his LACMA Art + Technology Lab's Grant, Newsome created the first generation of his unique and provocative 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, CA. During Being's interactions with viewers they explore a variety of challenging topics: * Art historical erasure. * The social implications of artificial intelligence regarding rights liberties. * Labor and automation. * The importance of the imagination as a form of liberation. * The subjectivity of body autonomy within an inherently inequitable society. At various points in Being's tour, they say, "Girl, bye, I need to express myself." At this moment, the frame pulls back from the avatar's bust/head to show Being's full-body dancing to the song

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. They also periodically say, "Look, booboo, I just can't," and break the tour script to read excerpts from radical theorists like

Bell hooks Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She is best known for her writings on ...

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, Cornel West or

James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer. He garnered acclaim across various media, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'', was published in 1953; de ...

as a simulation of their agency and or resistance against their indentured servitude. Since then, Newsome has been in residence at The

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Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, where he is developing a spin-off calle
Being 1.5
a mobile/web-based therapy app created to exclusively help African American people manage trauma from daily racial indignities, as well as the second generation of the IRL version called Being 2.0(The Digital Griot). which premiered in Newsome's 2022 solo exhibition at the

Drill Hall. In the artist's words, "Being 2.0 is a reimagining of non-Eurocentric archive and education models like the

griot A griot (; ; Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: , ''djeli'' or ''djéli'' in French spelling); Serer: kevel or kewel / okawul; Wolof: gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. The griot is a repos ...

, a West African cultural figure that acts as a historian, library, performance artist, and healer. As a digital griot, Being's purpose is to help humans radically decolonize their minds through workshops that combine lecture, critical thinking, dance, storytelling, EMDR therapy, and

mindfulness Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention to the present-moment experience without evaluation, a skill one develops through meditation or other training. Mindfulness derives from ''sati'', a significant element of Hind ...

meditation. Described by the

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as "gracious and humble … sweet, sassy and a bit goofy," Being's approach to education is active and brings new possibilities for research and an enhanced academic experience for all people.

Selected images

File:The Conductor, Rashaad Newsome.jpg File:Parenting While Black, 2020, Rashaad Newsome.jpg File:Shade Composition (Pittsburgh), Rashaad Newsome.jpg File:King of Arms Art Ball 4, Rashaad Newsome.jpg File:Isolation, Rashaad Newsome.jpg File:ICON, Rashaad Newsome.jpg File:Being 1.0, Rashaad Newsome.jpg File:Ansista, Rashaad Newsome.jpg

Awards

2021 * ''Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship'',

Knight Foundation The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also known as the Knight Foundation, is an American non-profit foundation that provides grants for journalism, communities, and the arts. The organization was founded as the Knight Memorial Education ...

2020 * Artist Residency, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence * ''Rapid Response Fellowship'', Eyebeam 2019 * ''Art + Technology Lab Grant'',

LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, ...

* ''MediaMaker Fellowship'',

BAVC BAVC Media, previously known as the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), is a nonprofit organization that works to connect independent producers and underrepresented communities to emerging media technologies. It was founded in 1976 in San Francisc ...

2018 *

William Penn Foundation The William Penn Foundation is a grant-making foundation established in 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by businessman Otto Haas and his wife Phoebe, and initially called the Phoebe Waterman Foundation. It strives to improve "the quality of ...

Grant * ''Live Feed Creative Residency'',

New York Live Arts New York Live Arts (Live Arts) is a movement-focused arts organization in New York City that serves as the home of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. The building was formerly the home of Dance Theatre Workshop, with which the Bill T. ...

2017 *

Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expression ...

Grant * ''Gold Rush Award'', Rush Arts 2016 * Artist Residency at the

Tamarind Institute Tamarind Institute is a lithography workshop created in 1970 as a division of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, United States. It began as Tamarind Lithography Workshop, a California non-profit corporation founded by June Wayne on T ...

, NM 2014 * Visiting Artist Residency,

Headlands Center for the Arts Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, and interdisciplinary public programs. It is situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, in Marin County, Cali ...

2011 *

Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation was founded in 1918 by Louis Comfort Tiffany to operate his estate, Laurelton Hall, in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. It was designed to be a summer retreat for artists and craftspeople. In 1946 the estate ...

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, NY, United States 2020 * ''Black Magic'', Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY, United States * ''To Be Real'',

Fort Mason Fort Mason, in San Francisco, California originated as a coastal defense site during the American Civil War. The nucleus of the property was owned by John C. Frémont and disputes over compensation by the United States continued into 1968. In 188 ...

Center for Art & Culture, San Francisco, California, United States 2019 * ''ICON/STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!'',

Museum of the African Diaspora The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco, California. MoAD holds exhibitions and presents artists exclusively of the African diaspora, one of only a few museums of its kind in the United States. Locate ...

, San Francisco, United States 2017 * ''Reclaiming Our Time'', Debuck Gallery, New York, New York, United States * ''Mélange'', Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States 2016 * ''STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!'', DeBuck Gallery, New York, New York, United States * ''THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE'',

Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent. The museum's galleries are currently closed in preparation for a building project that will replace the current building, located at 144 W ...

, New York, United States 2015 * ''Order of Chivalry'',

Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private nonprofit art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France. Founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the Unit ...

, Georgia, United States * ''Silence Please The Show Is About To Begin'', Art Gallery of

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

, Toronto, Canada 2014 * ''LS.S'',

Marlborough Gallery Marlborough Fine Art was founded in London in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer. In 1963, a gallery was opened as Marlborough-Gerson in Manhattan, New York, at the Fuller Building on Madison Avenue and 57th Street, which later relocated in ...

, New York, New York, United States * ''FIVE'',

The Drawing Center The Drawing Center is a Manhattan, New York, museum and a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. History The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at ...

, New York, NY, United States 2013 * ''King of Arms'', The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 2011 * ''Herald'', Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States. * ''Rashaad Newsome/MATRIX 161'', The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. 2010 * ''Honorable Ordinaries'', Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, New York, United States. * ''Futuro'', ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy. 2009 * ''Standards'', Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, New York, United States.

Group exhibitions

2022 * ''In the Black Fantastic'',

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Roy ...

, London, United Kingdom 2021 * ''The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse'',

, Richmond, Virginia, United States 2020 * ''Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism'',

Oakland Museum of California The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located adjacent to Oak Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street in Oakland, Cali ...

, Oakland, California, United States * ''After La vida nueva'',

Artists Space Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization first established at 155 Wooster Street in Soho, New York City. Founded in 1972 by Irving Sandler and Trudie Grace and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Artist ...

, New York, New York, United States 2019 * ''Elements of Vogue'', El Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City * ''Radical Love'', Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, New York, United States 2018 * ''Something to Say'',

, San Antonio, Texas, United States 2017 * ''Elements of Vogue'', Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain * ''Public Movement'',

Moderna Museet Malmö Moderna Museet Malmö is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Malmö, Sweden. It is a part of the state-owned Moderna Museet Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and co ...

, Malmö, Sweden 2015 * ''A Curious Blindness'',

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, New York, New York, United States 2014 * ''Killer Heels'',

, New York, New York, United States * ''BLACK EYE'', New York, New York, United States 2013 * ''GODDESS CLAP BACK: HIP HOP FEMINISM IN ART'', CUE Art Foundation, New York, New York, US 2012 * ''It’s Time to Dance Now'', Centre national d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. * ''Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media'', SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, United States * ''The Bearden Project'',

, New York, New York, United States 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 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Scho ...

, New York, New York, United States * ''Greater New York'',

, Long Island City, New York, United States * ''

'', New York, New York, United States * ''Prospect 1.5'', Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Inspiration

Rashaad Newsome's work blends several practices, including collage, assemblage, sculpture, film, photography, music, computer programming, software engineering, community organizing, and performance, to create a new field that rejects classification. Using the diasporic traditions of improvisation, he pulls from the world of advertising, the internet, Art History, Black and Queer culture to produce counter-hegemonic work that walks the tightrope between creative computing, social practice, abstraction, and intersectionality. The gesture of collage acts as a theoretical, conceptual, and technical method to construct a new cultural framework of power that does not find the oppression of others necessary. Newsome's work celebrates Black contributions to the art canon and creates innovative and inclusive forms of culture and media.

Bibliography

* Weiyi Chang. (2020). Sofa Jamal, Colleen O’Connor, and Patricio Orellana, ''After La vida Nueva'', exhibition catalogue, Artists Space, NY * Jasmine Wahi. (2020). ''To Be Real'', exhibition catalogue, PPAC & Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture * 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, MOMAPS1 * (2010). ''Whitney Biennial'', exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art

References

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