Actor

Theaster Gates

53 years · Chicago, Illinois, USA · 3 films

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.

Best known for

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

2021 · Self

On HBO Max

Basquiat: Rage to Riches

2017 · Self (Artist)

Billy Sings Amazing Grace

2015 · Director