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Brussels / Paris / London + 3 other locations

Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)

(American, born 1976)

corfu is for lovers, fighters, titans, gods, demigods. please enjoy your stay. however short that may be. -a veiled warning to warmongers from the heptanese league. 1799 by umar rashid (frohawk two feathers)

Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)

Corfu is for lovers, fighters, titans, gods, demigods. Please enjoy your stay. However short that may be. -A veiled warning to warmongers from the Heptanese League. 1799, 2023

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Biography

Timeline

1976
Born: Chicago, IL
2000
BA, Southern Illinois University At Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
Throughout his paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) creates a fictional universe, which he calls the “Frenglish Empire,” in order to reimagine colonial history. The artist depicts the characters, conflicts, artifacts, and ephemera that hail from this invented world superpower, which ruled a transcontinental dominion from 1648 to 1880. Frohawk Two Feathers conjures a cast of both illustrious and everyday subjects—many of whom are people of color—as he explores issues of race, class, power, and the instability of public histories. His disparate references include Renaissance portraiture, Persian miniatures, hip-hop, cosmological diagrams, comic books, and Native American ledger art. Frohawk Two Feathers studied cinema and photography at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale before focusing on his studio art practice. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, London, Rotterdam, and Cape Town, among other cities, and his work can be found in the collections of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, the Brooklyn Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Wellin Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

2011
Crocodile Company Part I. La Guerre Des Machetes Danseuses, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Nothing to Say, Guererro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Stranger Than Fiction, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Else, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Frohawk Two Feathers at Scenic, New York, NY (solo)
New Work, Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig, Germany (solo)
2008
In The Court Of The Crimson King, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Aqua Art Miami, Wynwood, Taylor De Cordoba, Miami, FL
NEXT The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Taylor De Cordoba, Chicago, IL
POP-UP @ THE PARKER, Taylor De Cordoba, New York, NY
2007
Art Aqua Miami, Taylor De Cordoba, Miami, FL
Miami Basel, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Artforum Berlin, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006
Last Night, After the Lights Went Out, We Fell, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
25 Bold Moves, House of Campari, Venice, Italy (solo)
The Easter Seal, Bent Gallery, South Pasadena, CA (solo)
C-Note Show, Project, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
You and Me, Unitard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2005
The Union vs. The Confederacy, Marvimon House, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Tudrafoot vs. The Vikes, Han Cholo, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Cool Heat, Blue Chips Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Permafrost At Ghettogloss, Ghettogloss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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