Theaster Gates ‘Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me’, his first solo exhibition at White Cube New York
25 January 2024 • Mark Westall
White Cube is present ‘Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me’ by Theaster Gates. The title of the exhibition honours the 1970s… Read More
Theaster Gates (b.1973) lives and works in Chicago. Gates creates work that focuses on space theory and land development, sculpture and performance. In all aspects of his work, he contends with the notion of Black space as a formal exercise – one defined by collective desire, artistic agency, and the tactics of a pragmatist. Clay has been central to Gates’s practice since earning an MA in urban planning and ceramics at Iowa State University in 1996 and subsequently studying pottery in?Tokoname, Japan. Gates is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the Harris School of Public Policy and serves as the Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean. He has recently exhibited and performed at TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China (2021); Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, China (2021); Tate Liverpool (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (2018); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (2017); Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada (2016); Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016) and Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2013). Gates has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Arts Mundi 6 Prize (2017); the Légion d’Honneur (2017); the Nasher Prize for Sculpture (2018); the Urban Land Institute, J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development (2018); the World Economic Forum Crystal Award (2020); and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects (2021). Gates was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021.
25 January 2024 • Mark Westall
White Cube is present ‘Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me’ by Theaster Gates. The title of the exhibition honours the 1970s… Read More
4 May 2023 • Mark Westall
White Cube has announced the opening of its New York gallery this fall, at 1002 Madison Avenue in the city’s Upper East Side.
5 September 2022 • Mark Westall
Skepta makes his art world debut this week as he unveils, for the first time, his painting Mama Goes to Market at Sotheby’s.
14 June 2022 • Mark Westall
Theaster Gates is taking over the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade on the occasion of his 2022 Serpentine Pavillion, Black Chapel,
7 June 2022 • Mark Westall
The 21st Serpentine Pavilion, Black Chapel, designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates opens this week on Friday 10th June 2022. Black Chapel is realised with the… Read More
3 February 2022 • Mark Westall
Today, plans were revealed for Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion designed by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. Black Chapel is realised with the… Read More
28 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Serpentine have jointly announced a multi-venue presentation dedicated to artist Theaster Gates’s (b.1973, USA) clay practice for 2021-22.
14 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Theaster Gates: How to Sell Hardware is the artist’s latest installation in Chicago and third solo exhibition at Gray. How to Sell Hardware tells the story of Theaster Gates’s ongoing engagement with a family-owned True Value hardware store formerly located on Chicago’s South Side.
21 May 2021 • Mark Westall
Chicago artist Theaster Gates is to design the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, making him the first non-architect solely commissioned for the Pavilion.
5 October 2020 • Mark Westall
Gagosian is pleased to present Black Vessel, Theaster Gates’s first ever solo exhibition in New York following his inclusion in the Whitney Biennial one decade ago. Gates’s approach to artmaking is as protean as it is spiritual and political.
28 August 2020 • Mark Westall
In honour of the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, Snap Inc. (the parent company of Snapchat) has teamed up with six Black artists to develop a series of “Raise Your Voice” augmented reality face lenses including masks, plus US Capitol Landmarker and Bitmoji apparel designs.
15 June 2020 • Mark Westall
Join Theaster Gates in his studio as he prepares for his upcoming exhibition at Gagosian, New York, this fall
19 May 2020 • Mark Westall
Gagosian presents Broadcast: Alternate Meanings in Film and Video, an online exhibition of artists’ films and videos viewable exclusively on gagosian.com.
6 April 2020 • Mark Westall
Gagosian launches Artist Spotlight One Artist, One Work, One Week Exclusively Online | Launching April 8th, 2020 with New York-based artist Sarah Sze.
19 December 2019 • Caira Moreira-Brown
While Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s banana took the Art world’s media by storm selling for upwards of six figures prevalence and progression for the artist of African Diaspora had not only a beautiful impact but captivated spectators from around the world.
8 December 2019 • Mark Westall
One of FAD’s favourite artists Theaster Gates has his first solo museum exhibition in the UK opening this week at Tate Liverpool.
26 September 2019 • Mark Westall
Prada presents the third iteration of Prada Mode, a traveling social club with a focus on contemporary culture that provides members a unique art experience along with music, dining, and conversations.
1 August 2019 • Caira Moreira-Brown
What results from urban planning, social practice, and a hunger for change? Theaster Gates at Richard Gray may be it. The latest exhibition from the Chicago based artist emphasised the intersection of fine art and social progression.
20 May 2019 • Mark Westall
Opening this week White Cube presents ‘Afro-Mingei’ by Theaster Gates (b.1973), an exhibition in which two key strands of his work – Japanese philosophy and Black identity – combine.
14 February 2019 • Mark Westall
For his first solo museum exhibition in France, Theaster Gates has initiated an entirely new project that explores social histories of migration and interracial relations
13 February 2019 • Mark Westall
On February 18, Theaster Gates’s first and much-anticipated museum exhibition in France, entitled Amalgam, will open at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. To coincide and to mark the announcement of representation, Gagosian will present selected recent works by Gates at 4 rue de Ponthieu, Paris
15 June 2018 • Mark Westall
Artist and archivist Theaster Gates explores the cult of the Black Madonna across two venues of the Kunstmuseum in Basel. Turning two floors of the museum into a space of creative production, Gates has set up a temporary sound studio and printing workshop where live performances and interventions by the artist take place.
2 August 2017 • Syndicate
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of racial persecution in the US while steering clear of explicit violence
2 January 2016 • Staff
Mark Sheerin: What’s your #ArtThing of 2015?