Original Collage Rashaad Newsome Power & Periphery Nigeria Marlborough Gallery

Dimensions: H: 32.5, W: 24.75 IN

Rashaad Newsome, American (Born 1979)

Collage on paper

titled 'Power and Periphery'

Nigeria 2012

Bears a label on verso from Marlborough Gallery and is mounted in a white wood frame.

Provenance: Marlborough Gallery Provenance: collection of Louise Sunshine

Dimensions: 32.5"H x 24.75"W framed; 29.25"H x 21.75"W visual

Rashaad Newsome (born 1979) is an American artist working at the intersection of technology, mixed media collage, sculpture, video, music, and performance. He lives and works in Oakland, California and Brooklyn, New York. 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. 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. He has produced some digital lithograph prints with Tamarind studio.

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.

Awards 2021 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, Knight Foundation 2020 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 201 Visiting Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

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,

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 painting 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 2024 Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924‑2024 Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin Artists included: Alvin Baltrop, Beauford Delaney, Beverly Buchanan, Juliana Huxtable, Julie Mehretu, Kendrick Daye, Lyle Ashton Harris, Mickalene Thomas, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Zanele Muholi and others. Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage The Phillips Collection Washington DC Artists included: Andrea Chung, Derrick Adams, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Lauren Halsey, Lorna Simpson, Mark Bradford, Mickalene Thomas, Nina Chanel Abney, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Rashid Johnson, Sanford Biggers, Shinique Amie Smith, Tschabalala Self and others. 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 Romare 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