Gregory Sholette
American artist and writer
Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, educator, and activist. He is a Professor of Sculpture and Social Practice at Queens College, City University of New York, Co-Director of Social Practice CUNY, alongside professor Chloë Bass, and Headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, at the Graduate Center. Between 2011 and 2014 he served as a charter member of the Home Workspace Curriculum Committee in Beirut, Lebanon.
Sholette completed his PhD in the Memory Studies and Heritage Program, University of Amsterdam, in 2017. He holds an Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego (1995); a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union 1979; and was selected to be a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies (1995–1996) at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Studies Program (ISP).
Career
Sholette co-founded several New York City based art collectives and group projects, including Political Art Documentation/Distribution or PAD/D (1980-1988) with Jerry Kearns and Lucy R. Lippard; REPOhistory (1989-2000); Gulf Labor Coalition (2011-ongoing) with Naeem Mohaiemen, Andrew Ross and Walid Raad; and co-organized the projects Imaginary Archive (2010-ongoing), It's The Political Economy, Stupid! with Oliver Ressler (2012-2016); and Dark Matter Supercollider Games (2015, S.a.L.E Docks cultural center, Venice, Italy).
Sholette is also an author and editor and has written for journals such as e-flux, Afterimage, Artforum, CAA Art Journal, FIELD, Hyperallergic, Oxford Art Journal, Texte zur Kunst, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, among others.
Art and exhibitions
Sholette has curated several traveling exhibitions. While he was Curator of Education at the New Museum in 1998, he curated the "Urban Encounters” exhibit, which highlighted the work of six Manhattan activist art collectives "generating political ferment and a lot of good art." His conceptual group project Imaginary Archive (2010-2015) consists of a collection of documents that suggest an alternative social reality, takes "the notion of collaboration as a living, working material to be debated, explored and tested." The installation project has traveled the cities of Kyiv, Graz, Galway, Philadelphia, Friedrichshafen, and Wellington in New Zealand.
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