Rashid Johnson is among an influential cadre of contemporary American artists whose work employs a wide range of media to explore themes of art history, individual and shared cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, philosophy, materiality, and critical history. From his origins as a photographer, Johnson’s practice quickly expanded to embrace a wide range of media—including sculpture, painting, drawing, filmmaking, and installation—yielding a complex multidisciplinary practice incorporating diverse materials rich with symbolism and personal history. His work features pointed narratives embedded with everyday objects that frequently reference his childhood and aspects of history and cultural identity. Many of Johnson’s recent works delve into existential themes, such as personal and collective anxiety, interiority, and liminal space.