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Painting
Acrylic and ink on paper mounted to panel. Diptych.
Umar Rashid’s work unfolds within the expansive mythology of the "Frenglish Empire," a fictitious nation in an alternate timeline where history bends, fractures, and reassembles itself into a layered narrative of power, conflict, and capital. In this world, Rashid interrogates the structures that shape our reality—who seizes control, who is cast aside, and who profits from the cycles of conquest and complicity.
Pulling from pop culture, classical painting, and historical iconography, Rashid constructs dense, cinematic compositions where past and present collapse into one another. His works are rich with symbols, maps, and coded language, embedding humor and critique within an aesthetic that is both deeply researched and radically imagined. By reconstructing history on his own terms, Rashid challenges viewers to reconsider the stories we inherit and the forces that continue to shape the world around us.
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“What's interesting is that history is always written by the victor. There's all these different stories, and as a black person or African-American, as you will or whatever, I haven't figured out how I really fit into this history.”
-Umar Rashid
About the Artist
Umar Rashid
Umar Rashid, also known as Frohawk Two Feathers, is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist renowned for his vivid reimaginings of colonial histories. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, and storytelling, Rashid constructs alternative historical narratives that intertwine fact and fiction, often spotlighting the experiences of marginalized communities omitted from traditional accounts. His work delves into themes of race, power, empire, and resistance, blending influences from hip-hop culture, ancient mythology, and 18th-century colonial aesthetics.
Rashid's art has been featured in prominent exhibitions, including Made in L.A. 2020: a version at both the Hammer Museum and The Huntington Library in Los Angeles. In 2022, he presented his first solo museum exhibition in New York, Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6, at MoMA PS1, showcasing over 30 new works that explore the dynamics of political and cultural power through history and fantasy. In 2024, in collaboration with BLUM he was a part of the PST ART: Art & Science Collide project with his solo exhibition The Kingdom of the Two Californias. La Época del Totalitarismo Part 2.
Select public collections include:
Brooklyn Museum, Hudson River Museum, Nevada Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Cape Town, South Africa), Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 21C Museum, The Progressive Collection, The Artist Pension Trust
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