Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher, and activist. He is Professor Emeritus at The City University of New York (CUNY), where he taught for close to two decades. He was a co-founder of Social Practice CUNY, an interdisciplinary program at the CUNY Graduate Center examining socially-engaged art and community practice
Sholette holds a PhD in History and Memory Studies from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017), he is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Theory (1996), University of California San Diego (1995), The Cooper Union School of Art (1979), and Bucks County Community College (AAS 1976).
He is a core member of Gulf Labor Coalition and was a co-founder of the collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000), as well as curator of Imaginary Archive, a peripatetic collection of documents speculating on a past whose future never arrived.
Sholette’s books include The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (2026): The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (2022), Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (2017), and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2008), translated into three languages.
