Rashid Johnson - summer exhibitions at Château La Coste
Published on 08/20/2026 at 13:53 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Rashid Johnson anchors Château La Coste’s summer 2026 program with interconnected exhibitions in Provence. As outlined by the estate and partner coverage, his solo presentation and the co-curated group show open on July 5, 2026 in the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium and Richard Rogers Gallery.HENI project announcement
Summer 2026 at Château La Coste
The Château La Coste program centers on the solo exhibition Rashid Johnson at Château La Coste, installed in the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium from July 5, 2026 to January 17, 2027.ART IS ALIVE overview The show combines paintings, new bronze sculptures conceived for the site and a dedicated film installation.
Running in parallel, Rashid, Sheree and Friends occupies the Richard Rogers Gallery from July 5 to September 6, 2026, foregrounding artistic community through Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian’s close circle of invited artists.Culturalee exhibition season report The program turns the estate’s architecture into a network of dialogue rather than a single-artist showcase.
Johnson’s exhibition arc
The Château La Coste project follows Johnson’s survey Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, which traveled from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth earlier in 2026.Modern Art Museum exhibition page That survey brought together nearly 90 works, including black-soap paintings, text-based pieces, sculpture, film and video.
With Château La Coste, Johnson extends this institutional arc into a landscape-oriented context, placing outdoor sculpture and site-responsive works among vineyards and architect-designed pavilions.ART IS ALIVE exhibition description The combination of an extended solo run and a finite group exhibition consolidates his presence in the European exhibition circuit in mid-2026.
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The work core and materials
Johnson’s practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography and film, with recurring use of materials such as black soap, shea butter, ceramic tiles, plants and steel. In Provence he adds site-specific bronze sculptures and a film installation to this vocabulary.Modern Art Museum curatorial text
Series like the Cosmic Slop paintings, the Anxious Men drawings and tiled architectural structures frame questions of identity, anxiety and belonging through dense surfaces and repeated marks. The Château La Coste works continue this exploration in relation to landscape and architectural space.
Where the artist stands now
Against this backdrop, Rashid Johnson is in an active exhibition phase, with the Château La Coste presentations running through January 17, 2027 and no additional public date in the immediate 30-day window referenced by institutional announcements.
Key facts on Rashid Johnson
- Artist: Rashid Johnson
- Medium / Genre: Mixed media practice spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography and film
- Born: 1977, Chicago, United States
- Place(s) of practice: Studio practice in New York with sustained institutional links to Chicago and international venues
- Active since: Late 1990s, with a first institutional exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2002
- Key work groups: Cosmic Slop, Anxious Men, Bruise Drawings, Escape Collages
- Current/last exhibition: Rashid Johnson at Château La Coste, Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium, Château La Coste, Provence, July 5, 2026 – January 17, 2027; parallel exhibition Rashid, Sheree and Friends, Richard Rogers Gallery, July 5 – September 6, 2026
- Major collections: Museum of Modern Art (New York), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Studio Museum in Harlem
- Awards: Publicly documented recognition includes major museum surveys rather than headline awards, with curatorial appointments and commissions marking his institutional profile
- Next date: currently no announced date in the 30-day window
Frequently asked questions about Rashid Johnson
Where is Rashid Johnson’s work on view in summer 2026?
In summer 2026 his work is on view at Château La Coste in Provence, with a solo exhibition in the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium from July 5, 2026 to January 17, 2027 and the group show Rashid, Sheree and Friends until September 6, 2026.
How does the Château La Coste project relate to Rashid Johnson’s recent surveys?
The Château La Coste presentations follow the survey Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, organized by the Guggenheim Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and bringing together nearly 90 works across media.
What defines Rashid Johnson’s key series such as the Cosmic Slop and Anxious Men works?
These series use materials like black soap, wax and repeated drawn faces to address themes of anxiety, identity and historical memory, often through dense, layered surfaces and large formats that situate viewers physically as well as conceptually.
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