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Rashid Johnson is an African American socio-political photographer who produces conceptual post-black art. The 2001 Freestyle show at the Studio Museum in Harlem that was curated by Thelma Golden and that launched his career continues to be talked about to this day. He has studied at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited around the world and he is held in collections of many of the world's leading art museums. In addition to photography, which is where Johnson began, he presents audio (mostly music), video and sculpture art. Johnson is known for both his unusual artistic productions and for his process. He is also known for combining various science with black history so that his materials, which are formally independent, are augmented by their relation to black history.