Sholette: CV Highlights (2018- Mid-2024) Post-Professorship

* Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945. Ed. with Blake Stimson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (304 pages: 4900 word introductory essay co-written with Blake Stimson, plus 10 commissioned essays.) ^

The Interventionists: A Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Co-edited and designed with Nato Thompson. The MIT Press /MASS MoCA: 2^ndprinting 2004, 3^rdprinting 2006. (153 pages: 4000 word essay by me, plus 3 commissioned essays, many color illustrations.) ^

Amazon author’s page with most books.

Guest Edited Multi-Author Journal Publications

* Optimism of the Will: 2018 FIELD Reports on the Global Resistance to Neo-Reactionary Nationalism, guest editor for a double issue of FIELD journal of socially engaged art, Issues 12/13, online only, 2019. (My essay is 2000 words introducing 30 commissioned essays I curated from around the world, see below.) ^

The Field Journal Regional Reports include:

* Whither Tactical Media? A special guest edited journal issue with Dr. Gene Ray for Third Text, Vol. 22, No. 5, 9/08. (2700 word introductory essay co-written with Gene Ray, and 15 commissioned essays.) ^

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (forthcoming or recent)

* “The Courbet Conundrum, and the Phantom Archive of Activist Art” The Routledge Companion to Marxist Art History. Tijen Tunali and Brian Winkenweder (eds). New York: Routledge, (forthcoming, March, 2024). ^

* “Performing Exceptionalism: Notes on art, class, and labor in the writings of Ben Davis, Dave Beech, Leigh Claire le Berge, Hans Abbing, Pierre-Michel Menger and Carol Duncan.” The Routledge Companion to Art and Capitalism. Child, D. (ed). New York: Routledge, (forthcoming, 2024).

* “Performing Resistance. Repurposing the phantom archive of activist art as a horizon yet to come.” The Routledge Companion to Performance Art Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless (eds). New York: Routledge, (forthcoming, 2024).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (since 2018)

“Glorapedia” for the book Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life Eds. P. O’Neill & Mick Wilson, MIT, (2022).

* “A Collectography of PAD/D, a 1980s Activist Art Collective” The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century. Shipley, Lesley E. and Mey-Yen Moriuchi, (eds). NY: Routledge, (2023). ^

“Boicot, barricadas e instituciones paródicas. De la crítica institucionalizada a las paradojas de la resistencia en un mundo del arte desnudo” in ¡Abajo el muro! Arte, neoliberalismo y emancipación después de 1989. A. López Cuenca, R. Bermúdez, T. Valdovinos (eds.) Ciudad de México/Guadalajara: MUAC-UNAM/ITESO, 2021. pp. 36-51. ^

“L’amour/ c’est la résistance/c’est la guerre, on art’s long, torturous romance with high culture” an essay for the book Resistance Anew: Artworks, Culture & Democracy edited by Bernard Fibicher 2021. pp. 105-115 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/resistance-anew-bernard-fibicher/1140683178

“Privilege as Form,” chapter for the book Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens’ Episode III: Enjoy Poverty, Anthony Downey editor, Sternberg Press, 2019. pp 328-303 ^

“Lavoratori dell’arte, lavoratori dell’arte, che avete fatto? Dalla dematerializzazione dell’arte alla materializzazione del lavoratore creativo neoliberale 1968-1977,” in Ilenia Caleo, Piersandra Di Matteo, Annalisa Sacchi (eds.), In fiamme. La performance nello spazio delle lotte [1967-1979], Venice, Bruno, 2021. pp. 361-371. ^

Other Publications

“A short and incomplete history of “bad” curating as collective resistance.” e-flux Art Agenda Reports, Sept. 21, 2022 (online).

“NFT Fever: Is It Time for the Great Refusal 2.0?” Electra Magazine, Lisbon, Portugal, Issue 14, Summer, 2021.

OP-ED on Covid’s Challenge to CUNY “Reimagining Higher Education Through Socially Engaged Art,” Hyperallergic, August 3, 2020

“Memes Are Dominating Attention Spans and Clicks Like Never Before. So Why Is Serious Socially Engaged Art Also Thriving?” Artnet News, December 2020.

“The Archive We Can’t See: Mining a Speculative Counter-Narrative within the MoMA’s Victor D’Amico Papers,” a commissioned essay for MoMA Education Department, 2019. (unpublished).

* “Do We need a Turing Test for Activist Art in a Bare Art World?,” Johns Hopkins ASAP/Journal 3.2, 2018. pp. 221-230.

ARTISTIC PRACTICES

Recent group exhibitions & participation (* note covid gap)

“Insurrection Redux” mixed-media, 36″ x 106″ x 8″ (2022)

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Jan 20 – April 24 2022: “Insurrection Redux,” mixed media sculpture commissioned for the exhibition Art For The Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities – first on display at Tufts University Art Gallery, amd traveling to the Santa Fe Art Museum, followed by Chicago.

Maha Moaleni begins her Art in America exhibition review this way: “Greg Sholette’s Insurrection (1984/2021) involves a short text repeatedly silkscreened on four adjacent panels that remain half-concealed under a lush thicket of synthetic flora native to Latin America. The phrase is from an 1858 treatise by archaeologist and onetime United States chargé d’affaires in Central America E.G. Squier, who promoted the white supremacist ideology of Manifest Destiny via the tropes of evolutionary naturalism, calling US colonization nothing more than assistance to a fate that would otherwise unfold at a slower pace: “Deus Vult––it is the will of God!” Continue Reading

My piece is also discussed in the context of the exhibition catalog by Paloma Checa-Gismero in her review “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, edited by Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky,” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, U.C., 4 (4) 2022. pp 38-139.

Sholette wall installation at STAMPS Gallery, University of Michigan, 2018

Other Group Exhibitions (since 2018)

2023 (October) Salon Manifest, Remote Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 (June) Library, Tappeto Volante Project Space, Brooklyn

2022 (Feb.) Group Show #2, Usagi Space, NYC.

2022 (Sept.) Kafala: Slavery in the Arabian Peninsula, exhibition with Matt Greco at APEX Art Gallery, NYC, NY.

2022, (July) Summer School: Art, Education, Resistance, ABC No Rio.

2021 (August) Columbus is Dead: Long Live Duchamp! Prototypes, Portland OR.

The Last Meeting in progress for Re-Working Labor, Chicago

2019 (Sept.) “The Last Meeting,” for the exhibition “Re:Working Labor,” at Gallery 400, SAIC, Chicago.

2018 (Oct.) “Lost in Europe,” group exhibition at Open Space gallery, Vienna, Austria and documentation in the journal Third Text.

2018 (Sept) “Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desire,” STAMPS gallery University of Michigan.

Precarious Workers Pageant, Venice, Italy

EARLIER MAJOR EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

For the Gulf Labor Coalition human rights campaign in 2017, Dr. Sholette conceptualized and produced a public performance project in Venice, Italy: The Precarious Workers’ Pageant

Imaginary Archive (2010-2015) involved a collection of documents about pasts, whose futures never arrived. some of the work was created by Sholette, other contributions came from artists living in cities where the installation traveled to cities including: Germany, Philadelphia, New Zealand, Ireland, Austria, Ireland, Chicago and Ukraine.

[EVEN OLDER ART PROJECTS 1980 – 2012]

Website with additional documentation of candidate’s art, scholarship, and organizing

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

LECTURES and WORKSHOPS

2022 In-person: Keynote, Art & Identity Politics, Murcia, Spain, Oct. 19-21.

2022 In-person: New Book Launch, The Showroom, London, UK, Sept. 15

2022 Talks, In-Person: Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany; Instituto de Historia da Arte, Lisbon, Portugal; Icelandic Art Center, Reykjavík Art Museum; (2021) Keynote Speaker: Art and Human Rights International Conference.

2022 Workshops, In-Person: UNIDEE, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy; Sirius Art Center, Cobh, Ireland; Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin, Ireland.

2021-2022 Panels & Presentations, Online: Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library; Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles; Wheaton College; Bard Graduate Center/Clemente Center NYC; Artists for Artists – Pedagogical Platform Master Class, Art & Science Direct CUNY GC.

2018: Workshop, INSTAR/ Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (Hannah Arendt Institute for Activism) Havana, Cuba.

2018-2021 ZOOM Presentations “in” Brazil, Colombia, UK, Ireland, Beirut, S. Korea: Online with video documentation.

Documentation of Sholette’s public presentations during Covid

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Social Practice CUNY: an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded, cross-disciplinary, cross-university, social justice art-educational program: https://socialpracticecuny.org/

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GRANTS

Finalist for Andy Warhol Foundation Writers Grant 2022 (unsuccessful)

2020-2023 $ 530,000. Andrew W. Mellon Grant to establish Social Practice CUNY Program at the Graduate Center and Queens College.

2022 £ 39970.34 SPCUNY in collaboration with Queens Museum, Tate Modern, Middlesex U., London for The Art of Engagement: foundations for an international learning community in social practice exchange project.

2022-2023: $6,000. TRADB PSC-CUNY – graphic novel publication support.

2018-2019 $10,000. Regrant: Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Art and Social Justice Initiative for Social Practice Queens/Art as Social Action

note: I am currently a finalist for the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for another book proposal now under review by MIT.

SERVICE TO CUNY

Co-Director of Social Practice CUNY which provides grants to CUNY-wide interdisciplinary arts faculty and students involved in social justice and focuses on developing diverse leadership in the arts. SPCUNY is funded by the Mellon Foundation and located at the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center (initiated in 2021).

Faculty member Art & Science Connect Working Group

PhD Dissertation Advisor, Stefanos Milkidis, Urban Studies, EES

Lecture for Urban Studies/ EES April 15, 2021 (online)

Co-Taught Core Seminar in Urban Studies with Cindy Katz, Spring 2020.

SERVICE TO QUEENS COLLEGE

SPCUNY’s 2021-2024 mellon grant funds full-tuition for QC MFA Art students in their 2nd year, while Social Practice Queens previously provided student financial support with grants from the Rubin and Vilcek Foundations.

Member of the Queens College Research Advisory Committee 2019

Member of the 2022 Photo and Imaging FT Faculty Search Committee

Created the only Pathways (CE) courses in the Studio Art Department: Arts 388, and Arts 333.

Created a new Art History course geared towards the QC Art Dept’s new Photo & Imaging Program Imaging Resistance: Photographic Media & Socially Engaged Art.

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Sholette Exhibition Catalog (2004)

Sholette Select Art Works PDF

Previous Professional Activities (1980-2015):

CV Highlights (2015-2018) FP

CV Highlights (1980-2015)

Sholette: Website, Blog, Seminar Pages, Archives.