He was a leading figure in Britain's BLK Art Group of the 1980s and became recognised as "one of the most innovative and versatile artists of his generation.
"[1] Rodney's work appropriated images from the mass media, art and popular culture to explore issues of racial identity and racism.
[3] "Autoicon" [4] by Donald Rodney is an innovative project that merges art and technology, conceived in the mid-1990s and completed posthumously in 1998.
Inspired by Jeremy Bentham's nineteenth-century "Auto-Icon," [5] Rodney's work extends his personhood and critiques dominant views of the self and the body.
[6] Curator Richard Birkett's "One Work" [7] edition examines the project's ongoing relevance, linking it to Rodney's 1997 exhibition "9 Night in Eldorado" and discussing its engagement with themes of racialization, ableism, and the intersection of human and posthuman discourses.