This conversation featuring artist Rashid Johnson and Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum, was hosted in conjunction with the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.” This conversation series highlights the practices of artists participating in the exhibition.

Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, IL) is a contemporary American artist whose multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, painting, drawing, filmmaking, and installation. His work deftly engages cultural identities, literature, and critical history to consider both the potential and boundaries that personal narratives offer for material representation and collective understandings.