GREGORY SHOLETTE
PROFESSOR OF ART AT QUEENS COLLEGE AND CO-DIRECTOR OF SPCUNY
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
5:00 – 6:30 PM
The New School University Center
Room 601
63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Gregory Sholette is a professor in the Department of Art at Queens College whose work examines collective cultural practices through the lens of political activism, counter-historical representation, social justice pedagogy, and the political economy of artistic labor under advanced capitalism.
He co-directs SPUNY (Social Practice City University of New York), a Mellon Foundation funded educational network that strengthens-connections among socially engaged artists, scholars, and advocates across CUNY. Sholette is also a co-founder of activist art collectives including PAD/D, REPOhistory, and Gulf Labor Coalition.
His writing on socially engaged art and cultural labor includes Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2011), Delirium and Resistance (2017), and The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (2022), among other publications.
This lecture is part of the MS Design and Urban Ecologies’ Urban Collouium II Spring 2026: State of Public Realms coordinated and instructed by Prof. Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism.
