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Rashid Johnson
Photo: Sabrina Santigao
Learn more about Chicago-born artist Rashid Johnson and his exhibition A Poem for Deep Thinkers in this conversation with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator and lead curator of the MCA presentation of this show.
About the Artist
A Poem for Deep Thinkers is Rashid Johnson’s third solo exhibition at the MCA, following an early career show in 2002 as part of the museum’s 12 x 12 series, and his acclaimed mid-career survey, A Message to Our Folks, in 2012. Johnson has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); Aspen Art Museum, CO (2019); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (2017), which traveled to the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (2017); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2016); and Drawing Center, New York, NY (2015). His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL.
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Funding
Lead support for the 2026–27 season of MCA Talks is made possible by The Richard and Mary L. Gray Lecture Series through a generous gift to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign.
Generous support is provided by The Antje B. and John J. Jelinek Endowed Lecture and Symposium on Contemporary Art; the Kristina Barr Lectures, which were established through a generous gift by The Barr Fund to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign; The Gloria Brackstone Solow and Eugene A. Solow, MD, Memorial Lecture Series; and the Allen M. Turner Tribute Fund, honoring his past leadership as Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Exhibition
Lead support for Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers is provided by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, the Zell Family Foundation, and Cari and Michael Sacks.
Major support is provided by Barbara Bluhm-Kaul and Don Kaul, Conagra Brands Foundation, Nancy and Steven Crown, David Kordansky Gallery, Marilyn and Larry Fields, Denise and Gary Gardner, Paul L. Gray & Dedrea Armour Gray, Jack and Sandra Guthman, The Joyce Foundation, Jennifer and Alec Litowitz, and Laura and Michael Werner.
Generous support is provided by The Francis L. Lederer Foundation, Nickol and Darrel Hackett, Hauser & Wirth, Halsey and Douglas Keller, Liz and Eric Lefkofsky, and D. Elizabeth Price.
