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Theaster Gates (Theaster Gates Jr., b. 1973 ,Chicago) lives and works in Chicago. Theaster Gates Jr (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) based in Chicago, is an installation artist and professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the College at the University of Chicago. Gates creates works that explore spatial theory, urban planning, land development, sculpture, and performance.
He participated at the Istanbul Biennale 2015, Whitney Biennial New York 2010, documenta 13 Kassel 2012 and at Venice Biennale 2015.
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20. May 26. NovVenice International Architecture Biennale 2023 Venice International Architecture Biennale
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02. Apr 26. NovIcônes Palazzo Grassi, Venice
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07. Feb 11. JunSharjah Biennial 15 - 2023 Sharjah Biennial
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10. Nov 05. Feb 2023Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces New Museum, New York
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30. Oct 29. Jan 2023A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration The Baltimore Museum of Art °
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01. Sep 04. Mar 2023Drum Listens to Heart The Wattis Institute, San Francisco
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16. Jun 19. JunArt Basel in Basel 2022 ART BASEL in Basel
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28. Jan 13. MarON DRAWING DRAWING ON Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago
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15. Oct 06. Feb 2022The Flames - The Age of Ceramics Musée d´Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)
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17. Feb 06. JunGrief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America New Museum, New York
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12. Feb 21. MarK. Kofi Moyo and FESTAC '77 Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago
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17. Oct 23. May 2021Future Histories: Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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29. Feb 27. SepDuro Olowu: Seeing Chicago MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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25. Oct 16. Aug 2020Theaster Gates: Black Chapel Haus der Kunst, München '
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05. Sep 12. Jan 2020Theaster Gates - Assembly Hall Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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25. Apr 28. JulTheaster Gates - The Black Image Corporation Gropius Bau, Berlin
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13. Apr 03. NovThe Source. Porquerolles Fondation Carmignac, Hyères
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04. Dec 21. Apr 2019MONUMENTality The Getty, Los Angeles
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09. Sep 30. Jun 2019REMEMBER TO REACT: 60 YEARS OF COLLECTING NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
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14. Jul 04. NovShe sees the shadows MOSTYN, Llandudno
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23. Jun 02. SepTHEASTER GATES - BLACK MADONNA Sprengel Museum, Hannover
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18. Oct 18. DecCosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence Centre Pompidou Paris
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19. Sep 18. Jan 20187th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2017 "Clouds–Forests" Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
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08. Sep 07. Oct(X) A Fantasy The Roberts Institute of Art, London
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05. Apr 29. AprIHME Contemporary Art Festival 2017 IHME Contemporary Art Festival, Helsinki
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14. Mar 23. JulCOLOURS. The emotion of art GAM Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin °
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14. Mar 23. JulCOLOURS. The emotion of art Castello di Rivoli, Turin °
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15. Sep 18. DecOn Space and Place: Contemporary Art from Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Vancouver DePaul University Museum, Chicago
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21. Jul 30. OctTheaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto °
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07. Jul 25. SepTheaster Gates: True Value Fondazione Prada, Milan
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23. Apr 26. JunTheaster Gates. Black Archive Kunsthaus Bregenz '
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05. Sep 01. Nov14th Istanbul Biennial 2015 "SALT WATER" Istanbul Biennial
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14. May 28. JunThief Among Thieves MCA Denver .
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09. May 22. Nov56. Venice Biennale 2015 - International Pavilion "All the World’s Futures" Venice Biennale
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13. Feb 25. Aprdo it (adelaide) Samstag Museum, Adelaide
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04. Feb 10. MayWhen the Stars Begin to Fall - Imadination and the American South ICA Boston
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06. Dec 15. Feb 2015LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck
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03. Dec 17. May 2015Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. CIFO Art Space, Miami
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25. Oct 25. Jan 2015Prospect.3 New Orleans Prospect New Orleans
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24. Oct 22. Feb 2015Artes Mundi 6 Artes Mundi, Cardiff
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02. Oct 01. Feb 2015Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence Menil Collection, Houston
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24. Aug 22. Mar 2015Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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26. Jun 01. AugMore Material Salon 94, New York
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06. Apr 10. AugLIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD Kunstmuseen Krefeld
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15. Nov 14. Decdo it (pristina) Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
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05. Jul 22. Sepdo it (manchester) Manchester Art Gallery
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04. Jul 05. SepThe Spirit of Utopia Whitechapel Gallery, London
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30. May 15. Feb 2015Prima Materia Punta della Dogana, Venice
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18. May 06. OctTheaster Gates. 13th Ballad MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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17. Nov 15. Feb 2013Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art CAMH Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
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09. Jun 16. Sepdocumenta 13 documenta Kassel
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16. Feb 10. JulRadical Hospitality in Contemporary Art Smart Museum, Chicago
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01. Oct 16. Jan 2012Theaster Gates. An Epitaph for Civil Rights MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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24. Sep 16. OctLiving as Form CREATIVE TIME New York
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15. May 25. JulHand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft CAMH Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
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16. Apr 01. AugTheaster Gates Milwaukee Art Museum
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25. Feb 30. MayWHITNEY BIENNIAL 2010 Whitney Biennial, New York