Rashid Johnson.

The one-room exhibition featured wallpaper made from a photograph of Johnson's father in the 1970s donning a taekwondo gi as well as a series of paintings with frantic, cartoonish-like faces scratched into "cosmic slop." ADVOCATE FOR DIVERSITY Beyond commercial success, Johnson's prominence in the art world in recent years has taken the form of advocacy work. The final product of this experience was The Dead Lecturer - an exhibition titled after a 1964 poetry collection by Amiri Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones) that demonstrated Johnson's range as an artist to the world. Born: March 2, 1977 Occupation: Artist Throughout his acclaimed career, Rashid Johnson has continuously proven that he is not the kind of artist who can be easily defined. [Extracted from the article]