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Theaster Gates
Artist's Name: Theaster Gates
Preferred medium: mixed media
birth year: 1973
Nationality: US
City: Chicago

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Theaster Gates is an artist and cultural planner. In his performances, installations, and urban interventions, Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions.

Gates’s training as an urban planner and sculptor, and subsequent time spent studying clay, has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing. Playing with these poetic and systematic interests, Gates has assembled gospel choirs, formed temporary unions, and used systems of mass production as a way of underscoring the need that industry has for the body.

When Theaster is not making art for museums, he is committed to the restoration of poor neighborhoods, converting abandoned buildings into cultural spaces that allow not only new cultural moments to happen in unexpected places, but raising the city’s expectations of where “place-making” happens and why.

Recently a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gates has received awards from the Joyce Foundation, Driehaus, Artadia and the Graham Foundation. In 2010 alone, he performed and exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and the Armory Show in New York; the Milwaukee Art Museum; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis; and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. Gates is currently showing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and has upcoming exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum and other European Venues. Gates is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago.
 

important exhibitions from Theaster Gates

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Documenta 13 documenta Kassel DE 09.06.2012
THEASTER GATES AN EPITAPH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA Los Angeles US 01.10.2011
Whitney Biennial 2010 Whitney Biennial New York US 25.02.2010
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art Smart Museum Chicago US 16.02.2012
Living as Form Creative Time New York US 24.09.2011

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Theaster Gates:

Kavi Gupta, Berlin