Rashawn Griffin | |
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Born | Rashawn Ryan Griffin 1980 (age 43–44) Los Angeles, California, United States |
Education | Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA), Yale University (MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, educator |
Known for | Installation art, sculpture, multimedia art, painting |
Rashawn Griffin (born 1980) is an American visual artist and educator. He has worked as an installation artist, sculptor, multimedia artist, and painter. His work explores identity and race. [1] Griffin teaches at the University of Kansas. [2]
Rashawn Griffin was born in 1980, in Los Angeles, California. [3] He was raised in Olathe, Kansas, [4] [5] and attended high school in Kansas City, Kansas. [6]
Griffin received a BFA degree in 2002, from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA); and a MFA degree in 2005, from Yale University. [4]
Griffin teaches art in the department of visual art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
He has been an artist-in-residence in 2006 at the Studio Museum in Harlem, [7] and an artist-in-residence multiple times at the MacDowell Colony. [8] Griffin received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in 2017, and a grant in 2007. [9]
He has participated in notable group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial (2008) at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; [3] and Minimal Baroque: Post-Minimalism and Contemporary Art (2014) at Rønnebæksholm in Næstved, Denmark. [10] [11]
Griffin's artwork is in museum collections, including at the Studio Museum in Harlem. [7]
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