Theaster Gates

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Director of Arts and Public Life at the University of Chicago; Founder & President of Rebuild Foundation

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Theaster Gates is founder and president of the Rebuild Foundation and director of arts program development at the University of Chicago. He is an artist, musician, 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 his subsequent time spent in Japan studying clay, has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing. With this experience, 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 black neighborhoods, converting abandoned buildings into cultural spaces. Gates was a Loeb fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design and has received awards from the Joyce Foundation and the Graham Foundation.

In 2019, fashion label Prada announced Theaster Gates, alongside Ava DuVernay, will be co-chair of the Prada Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 04/13/2024.

Theaster Gates Videos

  • Highlights from a town hall lecture with Theaster Gates in Dallas for ...
    Theater Gates engages in an extensive conversation about his sculptural practice with interlocutors and the general public in Dallas on April 6, ...
  • Artist Talk: Theaster Gates on the Transformative Power of Art ...
    Theaster Gates, artist and innovator in the field of social practice, reflects on his commitment to bridging the gap between art and life through ...
  • Lecture by Theaster Gates - YouTube
    Recorded Tuesday, September 27, 2011, as part of the Design and Craft Lecture Series, Theaster Gates presented in Timken Lecture Hall on ...

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