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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

September 19 - September 19, 2012

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Spanning collage, video, installation, and performance, Rashaad Newsome’s work remixes hip-hop culture, historical traditions such as heraldry, and other “high/low” juxtapositions to explore African American and queer culture, power dynamics, and social status. Befitting his interest in music—Newsome has staged rap battles and produced a video mixtape called Swag—in 2011 he was selected to participate in MTV’s re-launch of Art Breaks videos, produced in partnership with MoMA PS1 and Creative Time. Newsome was also featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, where he exhibited a performance piece dedicated to the dance form of “vogueing,” and in the 2011 Venice Biennale. Other exhibition venues include Marlborough Gallery, New York; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; the New Museum, New York; and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow. Visit Newsome's website at rashaadnewsome.com Newsome will present a performance at SFMOMA on October 4 as part of the exhibition Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media.