Umar Rashid

b. 1976, Chicago, IL, USA. Umar Rashid is a Los Angeles-based artist, who makes paintings, drawings, and sculptures that chronicle the grand historical fiction of the Frenglish Empire (1648–1880) for over seventeen years. Each work represents a frozen moment from this parallel world that often recalls our own fraught histories—both canonized and marginalized—with familiar signifiers and iconographies that channel the visual lexicons of hip hop, ancient and modern pop culture, gang and prison life, and revolutionary movements throughout time. (Courtesy of Blum & Poe, Los Angeles).