Visiting Artist Talk

Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and professor. His recent projects include Imaginary Archive Philadelphia, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, U. Penn; Our Barricades at Station Independent Gallery; Imaginary Archive: Las Kurbas Center, Kyiv, Ukraine; and Rebel City: AND Platfrom, Barcelona, Spain. Sholette is a member of Gulf Labor Coalition and co founder of the artists¿ collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). His publications include It's The Political Economy, Stupid co-edited with Oliver Ressler, (Pluto Press, 2013) and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture (Pluto Press, 2011). A former CAA board member he teaches art and social practice at Queens College, City University of New York and is associate faculty at Home WorkSpace, Beirut, as well as the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of Harvard University¿s Graduate School of Design.http://gregorysholette.comhttp://darkmatterarchives.net