About

Scott Gleeson (b. 1977, Dallas, TX) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator interrogating the social and historical conditions shaping our experiences of place, community, and self. His current work examines the status of the body in the digital age, especially as it relates to themes of materiality, labor, agency, power, and spirituality. The artist’s diverse projects are joined by a common interest in art’s mnemonic function and in making visible the often unseen forces structuring human consciousness. Central to the artist’s process is a strategy of bricolage that combines diverse references from the art historical archive and contemporary media culture with methods of institutional critique, direct observation, contextual analysis, and speculative worldmaking to create hybrid initiatives that defy categorization. Gleeson has earned a reputation for self-reflexive projects that embrace contradiction and question fundamental assumptions of each discipline, often imbuing ostensibly benign or obsolete visual formats with renewed critical potential.

The artist has been recognized with grants, scholarships, and fellowships from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Meadows School of the Arts, the Doolin/Zelle/Jones and Rigsby funds also of the Meadows School, Oregon Humanities, and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. Gleeson holds a BA in art history from Colorado College and an MA in art history from Southern Methodist University where he specialized in Renaissance sculpture and British social practices, respectively. Gleeson’s work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at Eastfield College’s Gallery 219 and SMU’s Hawn Gallery. His paintings have been featured in New American Paintings and the 2010 Hunting Art Prize Gala and are held in private collections throughout the US and UK. He is the founding editor of Peripheral Vision, a journal of long-form criticism covering mid-career American artists that ran from 2016-19.