Gregory Sholette

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, activist, teacher and a co-founder of the activist art collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), REPOhistory (1989-2000), and Gulf Labor Coalition (2010-). His books include The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, and Delirium and Resistance: Art Activism and the Crisis of Capitalism. Alleged to be the curator of Imaginary Archive, a peripatetic collection of documents speculating on a past whose future never arrived, Sholette's art and research theorize and document issues of collective cultural labor, activist art, and counter-historical representation. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017), an MFA from the University of California, San Diego Visual Art Program (1995), a BFA from The Cooper Union (1979), and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Theory (1996), as well as an alumnus of the Center for Advanced Study of Visual Art in Washington DC (2023). He is an Affiliated Faculty member of the CUNY Graduate Center's Earth and Environmental Sciences Program, and co-directs Social Practice City University of New York together with Chloë Bass, Associate Director Catherine LaSota, and the SPCUNY team.