Rashawn Griffin was born in Los Angeles and raised in Olathe, Kansas. He studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Yale University. His installations, sculptures, and paintings have been in multiple exhibitions, including Frequency at The Studio Museum in Harlem, curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Y. Kim, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin. Future group exhibitions include Galerie Arndt & Partner, Zurich, and Freeway Balconies at Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, curated by Collier Schorr. Griffin lives and works in New York.