Shaunté Gates

Shaunté Gates is a Washington, D.C. born and based artist. His work employs a multidisciplinary approach, layering photography, painting, found texts and portraits, to create dreamlike landscapes that explore the labyrinthine social constructs of race, class and psychogeographical spaces people inhabit and operate within. His work was featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s “Men of Change,” a four-year traveling exhibition spanning ten museums including the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, California African American Museum, Cincinnati Underground Railroad Museum and Washington State History Museum (2019-23). He has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant (2022) and residencies with The Nicholson Project (2023), The Kennedy Center (2019) and Washington Project for the Arts (2018; 2017). Gates has work in esteemed private collections and institutions such as the Studio Museum in Harlem and Munson Museum of Art, Utica, NY. He studied at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Bowie State University.