Theaster Gates

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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.

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Total trailers found: 5

Basquiat: Rage to Riches Trailer (2017)

07 October 2017

This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be interviewed for a TV documentary.

Billy Sings Amazing Grace Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

High-definition video art from Theaster Gates

A Clay Sermon Trailer (2021)

09 October 2021

“In the beginning was clay. Clay was without form,” he declares in his 2021 film A Clay Sermon. Making pots is important as a religious and social experience, as well as a creative one; Gates’ identity is bound up with making, researching and teaching about ceramics and its history.

America Trailer (2019)

26 January 2019

A cinematic omnibus rooted in New Orleans, challenging the idea of black cinema as a "wave" or "movement in time," proposing instead a continuous thread of achievement.

Black Art: In the Absence of Light Trailer (2021)

09 February 2021

An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art.