Person

Theaster Gates

Acting · Born 1973-08-28 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Theaster Gates is an American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works.

Known for

America
Co-Producer
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Self (Artist)
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Self
Billy Sings Amazing Grace
Director
A Clay Sermon
Director

Filmography

2021A Clay SermonDirector
2021Black Art: In the Absence of LightSelf
2019AmericaCo-Producer
2017Basquiat: Rage to RichesSelf (Artist)
2015Billy Sings Amazing GraceDirector

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