Shaunté Gates
Ms. Birdies Landing, 2021
Shaunté Gates (b. 1979) lives and works in Washington, D.C. He studied at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Bowie State University. Gates trained in traditional oil painting and representational portraiture early in his career. His subsequent experiences working in the television industry, editing video and creating motion graphics, along with his interest in the writings of social theorists including Edward Bernays, Guy Debord and Joseph Campbell, caused a profound shift in his artistic practice. His recent 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. Gates is a participating artist in the Smithsonian Institution’s “Men of Change” 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). His work has also been featured extensively in exhibitions in the Washington D.C. region, including STABLE (2021); American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center (2016); Honfluer Gallery (2015); 39th Street Gallery (2014); Parish Gallery (2011); The Graham Collection (2006); and Howard University (2004). The one person exhibition “Shaunté Gates: This Is Not a Test,” is on view at Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 23 January – 30 March 2025. 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 has completed many public art commissions including Transcending, a painting commemorating the 140th anniversary of Howard University School of Law.
Downloadables
Shaunté Gates
The Four Huntresses II, 2023
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, cacrylic, photo, pulled paper, colored pencil, charcoal, ink, collage on wood panel
24 x 48 x 3 inches (61 x 121,9 x 7,6 cm)
26 x 50 x 3 1/2 inches (66 x 127 x 8,9 cm) frame
SW 23092
Shaunté Gates
In Light of the Hunt: The Messenger, The Lover, The Archer, 2023
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, colored pencil, pastel, collage on wood panel
48 x 72 x 3 inches (121,9 x 182,9 x 7,6 cm)
50 x 74 x 4 inches (127 x 188 x 10,2 cm) frame
SW 23084
Shaunté Gates
In Light of the Hunt: The Night Begins to Shine, 2023
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, colored pencil, pastel, collage on wood panel
53 x 96 x 3 inches (134,6 x 243,8 x 7,6 cm)
54 x 98 x 4 inches (137,2 x 248,9 x 10,2 cm) frame
SW 23083
Shaunté Gates
Cobalt Is Red, Poppies Are Too, 2023
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, colored pencil, pastel, collage on wood panel
48 x 96 x 4 inches (121,9 x 243,8 x 10,2 cm)
50 x 98 x 5 inches (127 x 248,9 x 12,7 cm) frame
SW 23085
Shaunté Gates
This Is Not a Test III: She Found the Great Beauty Where the Flamingos Rest, 2023
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, colored pencil, pastel, collage on wood panel
48 x 72 x 3 inches (121,9 x 182,9 x 7,6 cm)
50 x 74 x 4 inches (127 x 188 x 10,2 cm) frame
SW 23088
Shaunté Gates
Josh and the River, 2023
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, colored pencil, pastel, collage on wood panel
48 x 72 x 4 inches (121,9 x 182,9 x 10,2 cm)
50 x 74 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches (127 x 188,6 x 11,4 cm) frame
SW 23022
Shaunté Gates
Boy in New Balance, 2022
acrylic, photo, pastels, charcoal, tracing paper, collage on wood panel
48 x 71 5/8 inches (121,9 x 181,9 cm)
50 x 73 3/4 inches (127 x 187,3 cm) frame
SW 22145
Shaunté Gates
There's No Place Like Home, 2021
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, American history textbook paper, collage, charcoal on wood panel
48 x 72 inches (121,9 x 182,9 cm)
50 x 74 inches (127 x 188 cm) frame
SW 21191
Munson, Utica, NY
Shaunté Gates
The Land Of Myth, 2021
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, collage, charcoal on wood panel
48 x 72 inches (121,9 x 182,9 cm)
50 x 74 1/4 inches (127 x 188,6 cm) frame
SW 21161
Private Collection
Shaunté Gates
Ms. Birdies Landing, 2021
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, collage, charcoal on wood panel
48 x 72 inches (121,9 x 182,9 cm)
50 x 73 3/4 inches (127 x 187,3 cm) frame
SW 21162
Private Collection
Shaunté Gates
Even When They Knew She Stuck The Landing, 2021
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, collage, charcoal, markers on wood panel
48 x 72 inches (121,9 x 182,9 cm)
50 x 74 1/2 inches (127 x 189,2 cm) frame
SW 21188
Private Collection
Shaunté Gates
Where's The Picador, 2021
acrylic, photo, pulled paper, collage, charcoal on wood panel
48 x 72 inches (121,9 x 182,9 cm)
50 x 74 inches (127 x 188 cm) frame
SW 21189
Private Collection
