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Biography
Frohawk Two Feathers (born 1976) is an American artist who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His paintings often include aspects of history, storytelling and/or political commentary.
Early life and education
Two Feathers was born in 1976 in Chicago, Illinois, as Umar Rashid. He attended Southern Illinois University in 2000, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts.
Career
Two Feathers' work has been added to the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the 21C Museum. He also has held solo exhibitions and has pieces in the collections of the Wellin Museum of Art in Clinton, New Jersey, and the Nevada Museum of Art.
His art has been reviewed in Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times He displays his work regularly at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City.
Two Feathers also had solo exhibitions at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver Colorado. He has participated in Group shows at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Sandiego Museum of Art's Street Jam and Burlington City Arts in Vermont.
In Fall 2014, Frohawk exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut as a MATRIX artist. In 2015, his work has been displayed along with that of Duke Riley at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.
Two Feathers has created a book titled The Edge of the Earth Isn't Far from Here.