Connecticut, New York. 1945 - 2017
Black portrait figure social commentary painting
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Born 1973 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Urban planning themes, installations, performance art, sculpture.
Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American Social Practice installation artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Gates' work has been shown at major museums... Read full biography
Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American Social Practice installation artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Gates' work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, and craft.... Read full biography
Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American Social Practice installation artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Gates' work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, and craft. He is committed to the revitalization of poor neighborhoods through combining urban planning and art practices. Theaster Gates was born and raised in East Garfield Park on the West Side of Chicago. He... Read full biography
Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American Social Practice installation artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Gates' work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, and craft. He is committed to the revitalization of poor neighborhoods through combining urban planning and art practices. Theaster Gates was born and raised in East Garfield Park on the West Side of Chicago. He was the youngest of nine children and the only son. His father was a roofer and his mother, a school teacher. His sisters passed on their interest in civil rights activism and the family attended a Baptist church where Gates, a choir member, became... Read full biography
Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American Social Practice installation artist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Gates' work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, and craft. He is committed to the revitalization of poor neighborhoods through combining urban planning and art practices. Theaster Gates was born and raised in East Garfield Park on the West Side of Chicago. He was the youngest of nine children and the only son. His father was a roofer and his mother, a school teacher. His sisters passed on their interest in civil rights activism and the family attended a Baptist church where Gates, a choir member, became interested in performance. A good student, Gates attended Lane Technical High School. In 1996, he graduated from Iowa State University, with a B... Read full biography
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New York. 1939 - 2018
Abstract mosaic-like paintings, African-American themes, wood carved sculpture
New York, Illinois. Born 1977
Found object, multi-media sculpture, photography, black art themes
New York, California. Born 1964
Sculpture-conceptual, erasure drawings, installation
New York, California / Europe. Born 1960
Photo-text installations, sculpture, photography screeenprints, collage
Mississippi, New York. Born 1946
Mixed-media minimalist abstraction, drawings with crayon and ink
Connecticut, California. 1922 - 1981
Wooden sculpture-mod droll imagery and found object
California. Born 1961
Large-scale abstract collage-paper items
New York, California. Born 1943
Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre
New York, California. Born 1969
Silhouette figures, racial themed work
Illinois. Born 1938
Surreal-modernist whimsey
New York. Born 1982
Painting
Germany, England. Born 1968
Fine art photography, political and social activism
Arizona, California. 1925 - 2009
Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects
Illinois, Alabama. Born 1955
Social-satire painting, history, allegory
New York, Virginia. Born 1984
Conceptual art with language and history themes
Italy. Born 1971
Painting and sculpture
Illinois. 1935 - 2023
Biomorphic, nature themed sculpture, found objects, graphics
Germany. Born 1964
Photography based conceptual art-political commentary
Germany. Born 1967
Photography
New York / Kenya. Born 1972
Large-scale figurative collage, scupture, videos, feminist themed work
New York, New Jersey. Born 1971
Large-scale female figurative mixed-media paintings, collage, installation
New York. Born 1960
Text-based painting, allegory, self-portrait
Illinois, California. 1939 - 2021
Drawing, funk figure-faces, "Hairy Who," imagist, sculpture, drawing
England, United Kingdom, Italy. Born 1943/1942
Collaborative geometric-grid symbolic painting
Illinois, Missouri. Born 1959
Fabric sculpture, performance art, teaching
Illinois. 1939 - 2004
Modernist portrait and figure, illustrator
Illinois. 1941 - 1997
Abstract landscape painting, ceramics, imagist artist
New York, Connecticut. Born 1949
Non objective-funk, semi-figurative, prints
New York, Indiana / Germany. Born 1972
Abstract sculpture, digital art, photography
New York / Poland. Born 1968
Politically charged fantasy portraits, sculpture and films
New York / China. Born 1965
Performance art, sculpture, painting