 Her cousin is artist Senga Nengudi.Eileen Abdulrashid studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and the Institute of Design (ID) in Chicago, which merged to become the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949.Abdulrashid has exhibited at Suzanne Jackson's Gallery 32 in Los Angeles, CA[8] as part of a group exhibition entitled Sapphire