How art is being used to explore America’s shameful legacy of lynching
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
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.
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?
21 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Chicago-based artist, Theaster Gates, will stage his first public project in the UK this autumn by building a temporary site for a continuous programme of performance in the ruin of Temple Church in Bristol.
2 May 2015 • Eric Thorp
Floating around the the meticulously polished concrete floors of White Cube Bermondsey it is difficult to imagine anything looking bad in such a perfectly sized and finished space.
12 September 2014 • Mark Westall
Closing Event to celebrate all that has made the Bermondsey Project such a dynamic creative hub.
21 August 2013 • Mark Westall
7 leading London public galleries to participate at FriezeLondon as a part of Allied Editions
3 July 2013 • VC Maurer
Who are we? Where are we going?What are we waiting for? Just some of the questions which are provoked by the works at the ‘Spirit of Utopia’ exhibtion opening tomorrow 4th of July at Whitechapel Gallery.
17 June 2013 • Mark Westall
The 44th edition of Art Basel closed yesterday with galleries reporting exceptionally strong sales across all levels despite strikes by air traffic controllers and on the trains .
26 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Running from December 5th to 8th, Art Video Nights will showcase 60 film and video works on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in SoundScape Park.