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Rashid Johnson is known for:

  • Native Son
    A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
  • The Hikers
    Seven minutes in length, the film features two black male hikers — one ascending a mountain, another descending — who encounter each other as their paths cross. Their balletic movements are at once lithe and halting, athletic and awkward, challenging stereotypical notions of the forever rhythmic elegance of the black body in space.

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Biography

Rashid Johnson (born 1977) is an American artist who produces conceptual post-black art.Johnson first received critical attention when examples of his work were included in the exhibition "Freestyle," curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2001—when he was 24.He has studied at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited around the world and he is held in collections of many of the world's leading art museums. His directorial debut "Native Son" an adaptation of the Richard Wright novel from the same debuted in the 2019 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rashid Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.