Theaster Gates

ActorDirectorProduction Aug 28 (age 52) Chicago, Illinois, USA 2015–2021 (6 year career)

6.0 avg rating

Biography

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.

Known For

Film

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

Self

Film

Basquiat: Rage to Riches

Self (Artist)

Film

America

Co-Producer

Film

Billy Sings Amazing Grace

Director

Filmography

Acting (2)

Movies (2)

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

2021

as Self

6.9

Basquiat: Rage to Riches

2017

as Self (Artist)

5.8

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

A Clay Sermon

2021

Director

America

2019

Co-Producer

5.2

Billy Sings Amazing Grace

2015

Director