Rashid Jonhnson: In the Studio

Recognized as one of the leading voices of his generation, Rashid Johnson’s latest works, spanning painting, sculpture and film, demonstrate the artist’s longstanding interest in the concepts of interiority and self-reflection. Ahead of the Johnson’s exhibition at our Paris gallery, we sat down with the artist inside his New York studio to learn about the evolution of his distinctive visual lexicon, and his interest in animism, the belief in which all things, including inanimate objects, have souls. 

‘Anima,’ on view at Hauser & Wirth Paris 14 October – 21 December 2024, marks the gallery debut of two new bodies of painting, the closely-related Soul Paintings and God Paintings, both series that Johnson has developed over the past year. Alongside and evolving out of the works on canvas are two new series of bronze sculptures, their roughly-modeled surfaces bearing witness to the artist’s hand in a way that has dominated his sculptural practice in recent years. Also on display is the artist’s latest film, ‘Sanguine,’ exploring relationships of attention and care among three generations of the artist’s family: his father, himself and his son. 

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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel.