Shaunté Gates
Miss Birdie’s Landing, 2021, acrylic paint, photo, colored pencils, pulled paper and additional mixed media materials on wood panel, 72 x 48 inches
Show Me a Hero III, 2022. Acrylic paint, photo, pastels, charcoal, pulled paper, and additional mixed media materials on wood panel, 48 × 72 inches.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Washington, DC, 1979
Resides: Washington, District of Columbia
Education: University of the District of Columbia (2000); Bowie State University (1998); Duke Ellington School of the Arts (1997).
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Poppies & Parachutes”, Zidoun Bossuyt, Luxembourg.
2021 “Poppies & Parachutes”, Sperone Westwater, New York.
2014 “Le Spectacle”, Curtiss Jacobs Gallery, New York.
2008 “Black Canvas Series: One, Senate Square”, Childrenʼs Museum, Washington, DC.
2007 “The Self and The Box”, NBC (National Broadcasting Center), Washington, DC.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Art Basel”, Sperone Westwater, Basel, Switzerland.
“Art Brussels”, Zidoun Bossuyt, Brussels, Belgium.
“Frieze Los Angeles”, Sperone Westwater, Los Angeles.
2021 “Art Basel Miami”, Sperone Westwater. Miami.
“When Two Or More Are Gathered”, Sperone Westwater, New York.
2020 “Men Of Change”, California African American Museum, Los Angeles.
“Men Of Change”, Washington State History Museum. Tacoma, Washington.
2019 “Men Of Change”, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2018 “Prizm Art Fair”, Miami.
“Art On The Vine”, Marthaʼs Vineyard, Massachusetts.
2016 “Prizm Art Fair”, Miami.
“It Takes A Nation”, American University Museum/ Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC.
2015 “Flux Art Fair”, New York.
“Prizm Art Fair”, Miami.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Ballin, Sofiya. “5 Black Artist You Can’t Miss at Prizm Art Fair 2018,” okayafrica.com (December 3).
Cafritz, Peggy Coooper. Fired Up! Ready To Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. Rizzoli.
2016 Almino, Elisa Wouk. “Fifty Years Later, Artists Continue to Spread the Message of the Black Panther Party,” hyperallergic.com (October 21).
Carroll, Angela N. “Lest We Forget,” bmoreart.com (October 13).
2015 O’Sullivan, Michael. “‘Divergence’ at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery,” Washington Post (September 19).
Larkin, Daniel. “Finding Your Way Through Flux Art Fair,” hyperallergic.com (May 15).
2014 “40 Amazing Black Artist to Watch in 2014,” thegrio.com (January 3).