Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is Professor Emeritus at The City University of New York (CUNY), where he taught for close to two decades. He was a co-founder of Social Practice CUNY, an interdisciplinary program at the CUNY Graduate Center examining socially-engaged art and community practice, and continues as an Associate Editor of FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art. Sholette holds a PhD in History and Memory Studies from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017), he is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Theory (1996), University of California San Diego (1995), The Cooper Union School of Art (1979), and Bucks County Community College (AAS 1976). He is a core member of Gulf Labor Coalition and was a co-founder of the collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000) as well as curator of Imaginary Archive: a peripatetic collection of documents speculating on a past whose future never arrived with iterations in Kyiv Ukraine; ICA Philadelphia; Galway, Ireland; Graz, Austria; and Zeppelin University in Germany. His art and research theorize and document issues of collective cultural labor, activist art, and counter-historical representations that because of their ephemerality, politics, and marketplace resistance typically remain invisible. Sholette has contributed to such journals as FIELD,      e-flux, Artforum, Frieze, October, Critical Inquiry, Texte zur Kunst, Afterimage, CAA Art Journal and Manifesta Journal among other publications. He is founder of the Labor Art Review, a Substack publication engaging critical discourse on art, labor, and social practice. His books include: The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (2026): The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (Lund Humphries, 2022); Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (2017); Art As Social Action with Chloë Bass (2018); and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2008), now translated into Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese/Brazilian editions.

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