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Ms. Birdies Landing, 2021
 

Shaunté Gates was born in 1979 in Washington, D.C., where he lives and works. He studied at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Bowie State University. Gates is trained in oil painting and produced representational portraits early in his career. His recent work across mixed media collage and video uses found materials to subvert landscapes with architecture embedded with cultural symbologies and caste categorizations, probing our psychological experiences of the city and illuminating forgotten, discarded or marginalized aspects of the urban environment. Gates is a participating artist in the Smithsonian Institution’s “Men of Change” four-year traveling exhibition spanning ten museums, including California African American Museum, Cincinnati Underground Railroad Museum and Washington State History Museum (2019-2022). His work has also been featured extensively in exhibitions in the Washington 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). He has been awarded residencies with The Kennedy Center and Washington Project for the Arts (WPA). Gates has work in esteemed private collections and institutions such as the Studio Museum in Harlem and Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY. He has completed many public art commissions throughout D.C. schools, including Transcending, a painting commemorating the 140th anniversary of Howard University School of Law.

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collaged painting with boys from The Wire gathered in the background and muzzled dogs racing while a boy ties New Balance sneakers in the foreground

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

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collaged painting of a black man with a painted face riding a chimera of a leopard and hooved animal through an abstracted city streetscape strewn with parachutes and poppies

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-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY

collaged painting of a boy popping a wheelie in the foreground of a city streetscape strewn with parachutes and poppies

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

collaged painting of a woman wearing a lacy white dress sitting in front of a mountainscape and surrounded by votive candles, busts of historical men, racing boats, parachutes and poppies

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

collaged painting of a silhouetted figure emerging from a black woman in a feathered headdress crouching on a stone plaza in a city streetscape as jockeys race horses in the background

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

collaged painting of a bullfight in a city plaza surrounded by onlookers from different time periods in history

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

collaged painting with boys from The Wire gathered in the background and muzzled dogs racing while a boy ties New Balance sneakers in the foreground

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

collaged painting of a black man with a painted face riding a chimera of a leopard and hooved animal through an abstracted city streetscape strewn with parachutes and poppies

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-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY

collaged painting of a boy popping a wheelie in the foreground of a city streetscape strewn with parachutes and poppies

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

collaged painting of a woman wearing a lacy white dress sitting in front of a mountainscape and surrounded by votive candles, busts of historical men, racing boats, parachutes and poppies

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

collaged painting of a silhouetted figure emerging from a black woman in a feathered headdress crouching on a stone plaza in a city streetscape as jockeys race horses in the background

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

collaged painting of a bullfight in a city plaza surrounded by onlookers from different time periods in history

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