Gregory Sholette

Gregory Sholette was born in Philadelphia and has lived and worked in New York City since the late 1970s. He is an artist, writer, a charter member of several activist artists' collectives including Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), REPOhistory (1989-2000), and Gulf Labor Coalition (2010 - present day). Sholette’s publications include Art As Social Action co-edited with Chloë Bass (Skyhorse, 2018), Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (forthcoming May 2017), Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture, and It’s The Political Economy, Stupid co-edited with Oliver Ressler, both Pluto Press UK, as well as Collectivism After Modernism with Blake Stimson University of Minnesota Press, and The Interventionists with Nato Thompson distributed by MIT. His recent art installations include Imaginary Archive at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and the White Box at Zeppelin University, Germany. His collaborative performance project Precarious Workers Pageant premiered in Venice on August 7, 2015. Sholette is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Theory and is an Associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program at the Graduate School of Design Harvard University, served as a Curriculum Committee member of Home WorkSpace Beirut education program, and is an Associate Professor in the Queens College Art Department, City University of New York where he helped establish the new MFA Concentration SPQ (Social Practice Queens).

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