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Umar Rashid, _Live free or Dior. Bathe in lava, colonizer! Lapita Prime, 1796_, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm - 72 x 72 in

Umar Rashid

Chicago-born artist Umar Rashid graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. His works are in numerous museum collections including, but not limited to, the Brooklyn Museum, Hudson River Museum, Nevada Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. He has exhibited internationally, including most recently at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Blum & Poe, Half Gallery, and in Made in L.A. 2020: A Version at the Hammer Museum and the Huntington Library. Rashid lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Selected artworks

  • Live free or Dior. Bathe in lava, colonizer! Lapita Prime, 1796, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm - 72 x 72 in
    Live free or Dior. Bathe in lava, colonizer! Lapita Prime, 1796, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm - 72 x 72 in

    Umar Rashid Live free or Dior. Bathe in lava, colonizer! Lapita Prime, 1796, 2022

    Acrylic and ink on canvas
    182.9 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm
    72 x 72 in

  • We can handle this like warriors or, get into some gangster shit. Mauritania Prime, 1796, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 cm - 72 x 72 in
    We can handle this like warriors or, get into some gangster shit. Mauritania Prime, 1796, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 cm - 72 x 72 in

    Umar Rashid We can handle this like warriors or, get into some gangster shit. Mauritania Prime, 1796, 2022

    Acrylic and ink on canvas
    182.9 x 182.9 cm
    72 x 72 in

  • An incident at Lover’s Cove part 2. Manman Dlo is not for the bullshit and thus, your ending, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 cm - 72 x 72 in
    An incident at Lover’s Cove part 2. Manman Dlo is not for the bullshit and thus, your ending, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 cm - 72 x 72 in

    Umar Rashid An incident at Lover’s Cove part 2. Manman Dlo is not for the bullshit and thus, your ending,, 2022

    Acrylic and ink on canvas
    182.9 x 182.9 cm
    72 x 72 in

  • The iceman cometh and is forced to retreat. The dance on the tundra on Abenaki Prime, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 cm - 72 x 72 in
    The iceman cometh and is forced to retreat. The dance on the tundra on Abenaki Prime, 2022 - Acrylic and ink on canvas - 182.9 x 182.9 cm - 72 x 72 in

    Umar Rashid The iceman cometh and is forced to retreat. The dance on the tundra on Abenaki Prime, 2022

    Acrylic and ink on canvas
    182.9 x 182.9 cm
    72 x 72 in

  • Tennyson 2nd Movement ( Le Morte D’ Arthur) Noah defeats Wilander on Mars, 2021 - Acrylic, mica, and spray paint on canvas - 121.96 x 121.96 cm - 48 1/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Tennyson 2nd Movement ( Le Morte D’ Arthur) Noah defeats Wilander on Mars, 2021 - Acrylic, mica, and spray paint on canvas - 121.96 x 121.96 cm - 48 1/8 x 48 1/8 in

    Umar Rashid Tennyson 2nd Movement ( Le Morte D’ Arthur) Noah defeats Wilander on Mars, 2021

    Acrylic, mica, and spray paint on canvas
    121.96 x 121.96 cm
    48 1/8 x 48 1/8 in

Gallery exhibitions

Museum exhibitions

Selected press