portrait by Carolyne Loree Teston
Rashida is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who explores themes of liberation and constraint through painting, craft and textile work. Rashida has been painting and making art from a very young age, and maintains a professional career as a community-centered applied researcher and philanthropic advisor working in partnership with marginalized communities to end carceral public systems. Her artistic practice is informed by her community work and rooted in her experience as a first-generation Muslim woman.
Rashida was born and raised in Queens, and is a proud graduate of New York City public schools. She holds an honors degree in studio arts and political theory from Wesleyan University and a master of science from the London School of Economics. She began her formal study of art at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and continued to study at the Art Students League of New York. She lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with her family.
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Select Exhibitions
2022 Praise Shadows Gallery group show “Chromatic Visions,” curated by Jen Mergel, Ana Hernández, and Michael Sun (Boston, MA)
2021 NYFA Current group show “Exchanging Visions,” curated by Alex Jaimeson (Brooklyn, NY)
2021 Public Art Installation supported by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (Brooklyn, NY)
2021 Jamaica Center for the Arts, group show “Encounters,” curated by Grace Aneiza Ali (Queens, NY)
2020 Deanna Evans Projects Flat File (Virtual)
2019 Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, group show (NY, NY)
2006 Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, group show (NY, NY)
2003 Art Center, Wesleyan University, group show (Middletown, CT)
Press/Features
2021 Queens Daily Eagle: “Jamaica Arts Center showcases works by 14 South Asian women,” March 2021
2020 Deanna Evans Projects Curated Studio Visit Feature, April 2020
Awards and Grants
2019 Honorable Mention in group show, Art Students League
2014 Coro Leadership NY Fellow
2004 CV Starr Foundation Grant, Wesleyan University
2004 Government Department Grant, Wesleyan University
Professional Work
2021-Present Principal, New Tomorrow (NY, NY)
2021 Exhibition Manager “Encounters”, curated by Grace Aneiza Ali, (Jamaica Center for Arts, NY)
2015-21 Director, Redlich Horwitz Foundation (NY, NY)
2011-15 Chief Program Officer, Boys’ Club of NY (NY, NY)
2010-11 Director of Research and Evaluation, Phipps Neighborhoods (NY, NY)
2009-10 Asia Research Analyst, Exclusive Analysis (London, England)
2006-08 Research Associate, Center for Court Innovation (NY, NY)
2005-06 Project Coordinator, NY Public Research Interest Group (NY, NY)
2002 Summer Intern, Asia Society and Museum (NY, NY)
Board Affiliations
2019-2022 Secretary, Board of Directors of the South Asian Womxn’s Creative Collective (NY, NY)
2019-2021 Co-Chair, Advisory Board of the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education (Middletown, CT)
2011-2019 Member, Board of Directors of the Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project (Brooklyn, NY)
Education
2019 Art Students League (NY, NY)
2009 London School of Economics, MSc in Comparative Politics with High Merit
2005 Wesleyan University, BA in Painting and Political Theory with Honors
2001 LaGuardia Highschool of Music, Art and Performing Arts, Diploma in Fine Arts