Greg Sholette CV Select Highlights

1980-2015

 

 

 

Exhibitions of note:

Solo

2013     Gregory Sholette: Collectibles: Models, Action Figures, Objects, Station Independent  Projects, New York, NY, 8/28-9/4, 2013.

2013     Torrent digital media and installation, Printed Matter, New York, NY, 2/28-3/17.

2013     “Exposed Pipe,” Byblos Bank Art Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon. 5/10-5/25.

2012     Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses, mixed media installation, The Queens Museum of Art Panorama, Queens, NY, 2/4-5/20.

2010     Mole Light, Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, NY.

Group

2014     “Saadiyat Island Workers’ Quarters Collectable” for GulfLabor’s 52 weeks of Gulf Labor.  3D printed multiples shopped-dropped at the Guggenheim Museum Gift Shop, with Matt Greco, 11/24.

2013      “50 Unrealized Projects,” for the exhibition Dear Art, Moderna galerija Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11/29–2/24.

2012     iDrone, for gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego, CA, 10/18–11/14.

Curatorial & Conceptual Collaborative Exhibitions

Imaginary Archive (with invited guests)

• The Kurbas Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 4/9-23.
• <rotor> Art Center, Graz, Austria, 9/21-11/23, 2013
• Gallery 126/Tulca Art Festival, Galway, Ireland, 11/4-20, 2011.
• Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 6/3-6/30, 2010.

It’s The Political Economy, Stupid (co-organized with Oliver Ressler)

• Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatioa, 3/14-5/10, 2014
• Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, 11/1–12/14, 2013
• Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia, 9/30–10/6, 2013
• Pori Art Museum, Pori, FInland 1/1-5/26, 2013
• Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 6/27–10/14, 2012
• Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, NY 1/24– 4/12, 2012
• Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria  3/16–4/25, 2011

Writings

BOOKS (with linked selected reviews)
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture.London: Pluto Press. New York American distributor: Palgrave Macmillan. Second edition: September 2011. *  [Turkish translation 2013, Spanish translation in progress: Google Scholarly Citations: 110]

 It’s The Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory. Co-edited with Oliver Ressler, London: Pluto Press, 2013. (Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of same name curated by the editors). [Google Scholarly Citations: 3]

Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945. Co-edited with Blake Stimson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.*  [Serbian translation by Kse­ni­ja To­do­ro­vić, CLIO Publishing Co., Beograd. Google Scholarly Citations : 168 ]

The Interventionists: A Manuel for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Co-edited with Nato Thompson and published in conjunction with the exhibition “The Interventionists,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, May 29, 2004, 2^nd, 3^rd Printings 2005 published by MIT Press in association with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. [Google Scholarly Citations: 123]

OTHER WRITINGS
“Double City,” serialized graphic novel. Chapter One: “Manifesto” with Christopher Darling, Frieze, Summer Issue 2013;  Chapter Two: “Underground” with Agata Craftlove, Shifter Magazine, No. 21, October 2013.

“Whither Tactical Media?” A special thematic issue co-edited with Gene Ray, London UK, Third Text, Vol. 22, No. 5, 2008.*

“Artists, Embrace your Redundancy.” An Introduction to Gregory Sholette’s “Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise,” Manifesta Journal, #15 (semi-annual), 2012. pp 36-37.

“After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social.” e-flux issue no. 31. January, 2012.

“Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: the city of (dis)order verses the people’s archive,” Critical Digital Studies Reader.  Edited by Marilouise and Arthur Kroker, University of Toronto Press, Canada, 2013. pp 283-292.  (First published online for the College Art Association Art Journal, Internet edition, Winter 2011/2012)*

“Come on Comrades, Lets Occupy the Museum. Again.” Texte Zur Kunst, Issue Nr. 85 / March, 2012. pp 174-180. [Spanish translation in progress]

“Empire of Happiness,” a report on the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi, Arts Asia Pacific Magazine, November/December 2011 issue, pp 43.

“Creative Time: Artists on the News.” Interview series for Huffington Post: Activism as Art: Shotgun Shacks.

“Disciplining the Avant-garde: the United States Vs Critical Art Ensemble.” The Uncertain States of America Reader.  Eds. Brian Sholis and Noah Horowitz. Berlin: Sternberg Press/ Serpentine Gallery, London. 2007. pp. 132-144.  Originally published in CIRCA (Dublin, Ireland) #112, 2005 pp 51-59; and in Croatian translation for a special issue of Frakcija magazine. No. 43-44. Zagreb, Croatia, 2008. pp. 130-138.

“Gifts of Resistance.” Commissioned essay for the exhibition catalog Periferic 8: Art as Gift, Biennial for Contemporary Art. Curator: Dora Hegyi, Vector Association. Iasi, Romania. 2008. pp. 129-137.

Interviews Given

Five Questions for Contemporary Art Practice

Do It Yourself Action Kit!

Inside the Artists Studio

New York Arts

Bad At Sports

CAMEL Group

Making Art Out of Doors

He is NOT his Studio

Teaching and Open-Source Scholarly Resources

Social Practice Queens

Syllabus and Student Work

HomeWork Space Beirut

Dark Matter Archives webpage

Organizing Activity

Gulf Labor Coalition (current)

Urban Encounters, New Museum (1998)

CIRCULATION (REPOhistory 2000)

REPOhistory (1998-2000)

Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D 1980-1988)

Select Reviews of Art and Writings

Hankwitz, Molly, “Dark Matter by Gregory Sholette: Mass Artistic Resistance to the Neoliberalization of Everyday Life,”  The Other Cinema Zine 9/20, 2013.*  (online)

Fine, Jon, “He is NOT his Studio: Looking at Greg Sholette,” Jon Fine Art Essays, 2013.  (online)

Patrick, Martin, “Itʼs the Political Economy…” book review,  Art Monthly, No. 366, 2013.*  (online)

Barber, Bruce, “The Art World’s Dark Matter,” Reviews in Cultural Theory, Vol. 3, Issue 2, August 15, 2012.*  (online)

Lundh, Johan. “Collective & Conscious.” Review of “Collectivism After Modernism.”  Fillip. No. 7. Vancouver, BC. Winter 2008.*  (online)

“Gregory Sholette: Disciplining the Avant-Garde.” Seans’ Critical Studies Reviews. Sept. 15, 2008.*  (online)

Lyons, Jessica. “QC Professors and Grad Students Exhibit in Romania,” Queens Courier. Nov. 12, 2008. (online)

Cotter, Holland. “Urban Encounters.” Review of curated exhibition at New Museum. New York Times. Aug. 14, 1998. p. B34. (online)

Cotter, Holland. “Mapquest.” The New York Times; Art in Review, Sept. 29, 2006.  (online)