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Rashid Johnson

RASHID JOHNSON

A Poem for Deep Thinkers Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 18 April 2025–19 January 2026 New York
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For nearly 30 years, artist Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago) has cultivated a diverse body of work that draws upon an array of disciplines such as history, philosophy, literature, and music. This major solo exhibition highlights Johnson’s role as a scholar of art history, a mediator of Black popular culture, and as a creative force in contemporary art.

Almost 90 works—from black-soap paintings and spray-painted text works to large-scale sculptures, film, and video—will fill the museum’s rotunda, including Sanguine, a monumental site-specific work on the building’s top ramp with an embedded piano for musical performances. Additionally, a dynamic program of events, developed in collaboration with community partners across New York City, will activate a sculptural stage on the rotunda floor.

The exhibition is organized by Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim’s Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, and Andrea Karnes, Chief Curator, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, with additional support from Faith Hunter, Guggenheim Curatorial Assistant.

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About the Artist

One of the most celebrated artists in America, Rashid Johnson examines the scope and breadth of Blackness through photography, installation, film, painting, sculpture and drawing. His work interrogates the complexities of cultural identity and history in the contemporary world, engaging with the history of conceptual art as well as Black experience.

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About the Gallery

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a landmark institution on New York’s Upper East Side, world-renowned for its iconic spiral building by Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrated collection of modern and contemporary art.

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Sunday - Friday: 10am-5:45pm

Thursday: Closed

Saturday: 10am-7:45pm
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New York 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum contemporary art institution in New York United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue , New York City, New York, United States
212 423 3500
http://www.guggenheim.org

Opening hours
Sunday - Friday: 10am-5:45pm

Thursday: Closed

Saturday: 10am-7:45pm
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