Co-organised by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, this catalogue and its accompanying exhibition is a three-decade survey of Rashid Johnson's artistic career. It situates the artist within three interconnected spheres: as a scholar of art history; as a mediator of Black popular culture and its widespread commodification; and as an artist engaged with the globalisation of contemporary art.brThe exhibition and accompanying catalogue features nearly 90 artworks, including early photographs, iCosmic Slops/i, spray-painted text works, collage paintings, iBroken Men/i mosaics, film projects, and key sculptures and installations that incorporate materials such as shea butter, black soap, plants, ceramic vessels and wax. These explorations demonstrate Johnson's uncommon fluency with multiple materials and forms as well as a nuanced ability to synthesize the condition of the human psyche.brThis lavish catalog is Bodonia-bound with gold block edges and printed on coated and uncoated papers. Amid more than 200 illustrations, the publication also includes creative meditations on excerpts by literary icons Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Genet, Paul Beatty and Amiri Baraka, interspersed among essays and an interview that illuminate Johnson's work.brBorn and raised in Chicago, bRashid Johnson/b (born 1977) received fine arts degrees from Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At the age of 24, his work was included in Thelma Golden's 2001 exhibition iFreestyle/i at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Johnson made his directorial debut with his 2019 adaptation of Richard Wright's iNative Son/i.