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Theaster Gates
Theaster Gates' practice includes sculpture, installation, performance and urban interventions
that aim to bridge the gap between art and life. Gates works as an artist, curator, urbanist and
facilitator and his projects attempt to instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as
catalysts for social engagement that leads to political and spatial change.
Gates has exhibited and performed at the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), Studio
Museum in Harlem (New York), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada),
Punta Della Dogana (Venice) and Documenta 13 (Kassel, Germany), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria)
and Foundazione Prada (Milan). He has received awards and grants from Artes Mundi 6,
Creative Time, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and United States Artists. Gates most
ambitious project to date is the ongoing real estate development, known as "Dorchester
Projects". In 2006, Gates purchased an abandoned building on 69th and Dorchester Avenue on
Chicago's South Side, collaborating with architects and designers to gut and refurbish the
buildings using found materials. Gates is the founder and executive director of the non-profit
Rebuild Foundation, which now oversees a network of buildings across the South Side including
Dorchester Projects and the Stony Island Arts Bank, as well as a Professor in the Department of
Visual Art and Director of Arts and Public Life at the University of Chicago.
THEASTER GATES
Biography
1996 Iowa State University, B.S. Urban Planning, Ceramics
1998 University of Cape Town, M.A. Fine Arts, Religious Studies
2006 Iowa State University, M.S. Urban Planning, Ceramics, Religious Studies
Currently lives and works in Chicago
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Tarry Skies and Psalms for Now, White Cube, Hong Kong
The Minor Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington
But To Be A Poor Race, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
The Black Monastic, IHME Festival, Helsinki
2016
Heavy Sketches, Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago
How to Build a House Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Black Archive, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
True Value, Fondazione Prada, Milan
Processions (performance residency), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
DC
2015
Sanctum, Situations, Bristol
Freedom of Assembly, White Cube, London
2014
The Black Monastic (performance residency), Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2013
Accumulated Effects of Migration, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
A Way of Working, The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, New York
My Back, My Wheel and My Will, White Cube, São Paulo; White Cube, Hong Kong
13th Ballad, MCA Chicago, Chicago
To Make the Thing that Makes the Things, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
2012
Soul Manufacturing Corporation, Locust Projects, Miami
My Labor Is My Protest, White Cube, London
2011
Theaster Gates: The Listening Room, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
An Epitaph for Civil Rights, LA MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
An Epitaph for Civil Rights and Other Domesticated Structures, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
2010
To Speculate Darkly: Theaster Gates and Dave, the Slave Potter, Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee WI
Dry Bones and Other Parables From the North, Brunno David Gallery and the Pulitzer
Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
2009
Holiness in Three Parts, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO
On Another Note: Extractions from the Chicago Jazz Archive Collection, DOVA Temporary,
Chicago, IL
Temple Exercises, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Erogenous Wonder, An Installation, Salvage One, Chicago, IL
Symposium on Contemporary Painting, Performance, University of Illinois, Champaign-
Urbana, IL
2008
Yamaguchi in Residence, Experimental Station, one year, ongoing lifestyle performance,
Chicago, IL
Dinner Intervention, Culture Community #1 meets Culture Community #2, Chicago, IL
Representations Series, Talking Series concentrated on the concerns and thoughts of
contemporary artists of color, in partnership with the Experimental Station and
Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago, IL
2007
Artists Connect, Performance Lecture, 16th Century Japanese Aesthetics, Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Uprising, Voice, Violin and Cello, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Yamaguchi Institute, Plate Convergence, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Recreation of
the Candy “Stow,” Acquisition and renovation of a small South Side commercial building
for dinner interventions; recycled materials, local labor, Chicago, IL
Life After Qualls, African American Artists Respond to the works of Michael Qualls.
Performance and sculpture at South Side Community Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Un-housed. Gentrification and the constant need for Space, Architecture and design
conference, Chicago, IL
2005
Rachmaninov and the Slave Spiritual, Piano, Violin and Voice, Ames, IA
The American Negro; Too good to be True, St. George Cathedral, Capetown, South Africa
People of the Mud, An exhibition of 15 ceramic artists, Department of Cultural Affairs,
Chicago, IL
Mississippi Houses, Inax Ceramic Museum, Tokoname, Japan
Facing Fuji: 10 Sculptors in Japan, Tokoname Museum of Ceramic History, Tokoname, Japan
Theaster Gates, Yakimono Ceramics Exhibition, Tokoname, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2017
L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art,
Rivoli
2016
In Context: Africans in America, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
The Color Line, Musée du quai Branly, Paris
The Underground Museum, Non-fiction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2015
Contemporary Conversations, Ottawa Residence, Ottawa
SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
All the World’s futures, 56th Venice Biennial, Venice
2014
Living in the Material World, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Ebony/Jet, Studio Museum Harlem, New York
Artes Mundi 6, Cardiff
Prospects 3, New Orleans
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, Menil Collection, Houston
Homeland [IN]Security: Vanishing Dreams, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City
Made By Brazilians...Creative Invasion, Cidade Matarazzo , Sao Paulo,
When Stars Collide, Studio Museum, New York, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
More Material, Salon 94, New York
Living in the material world, Kunstmuseum Krefeld
2013
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Studio Museum, New York
We'll Make Out Better than Okay, The Charlotte Street Foundation's la Esquina Gallery,
Kansas City
K.L.E.O. Community Family Life Center "Building a better world, one community at a time!"
Mike McCann, Executive Director 119 E. GARFIELD BLVD. CHICAGO, IL 60637 773-363-6941 www.kleocenter.org October 2, 2017 Association of Fundraising Professionals 1717 N. Naper, Suite 102 Naperville, IL 60563
Re: Nomination of Theaster Gates for the 2017 Outstanding Community Leader Award
To Whom it may concern:
Please accept this letter as my support for the nomination of Theaster Gates for the Association of
Fundraising Professionals 2017 Outstanding Community Leader award. I have had the pleasure of
working with Theaster in several capacities, including providing programmatic support for the
University of Chicago Art’s Incubator and with collaborating on KLEO’s 58unit mix-use
development targeting artist residence.
Extremely creative is what I know when I look at his work. His ability to take any type of material
that we consider junk and create art from it, amazes me time and time again. I have watch him
teach others to look at their community as beautiful neighborhood even if they lack the economic
investment their surrounding communities have benefited from. Watching him teach and instruct
children to bring out the artistic being in them is simply astonishing. When a youth says I am not
an artist he proves to them everyone is an artist in some fashion, that is invigorating.
I have known and worked with Theaster for over seven years. Theaster is an intelligent, capable,
dedicated, and personable artist. He is always quick on his feet, with sensible reactions in all the
circumstances I've seen him in. I feel confident in saying that he is an “Outstanding Community
leader”.
Sincerely,
Torrey L. Barrett President/CEO KLEO Center