Umar Rashid’s work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in commercial galleries and in museums.
Select institutional solo exhibitions including What is the color when black is burned? (The Gold War Part 1), University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscan (2018); The Belhaven Republic (A Delta Blues), University of Memphis Galleries A and B, Tennessee (2017); Kill Your Best Ideas: The Battle for New York and Its Lifeline, the Hudson River, Hudson River Museum, New York (2015). In 2021, Blum & Poe Los Angeles presented En Garde / On God, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Select group exhibitions include Made in LA 2020: a version; Forever, A Moment: Black Meditations on Time and Space!, SOMA Arts, San Francisco (2019); Here, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2018); Our Moment Is Here, Zietz MOCCA, Cape Town (2017); Based on a True Story: Duke Riley and Frohawk Two Feathers, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2014); Stranger Than Fiction, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California (2010).
