Multidisciplinary Artist
Dread Scott is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses questions that are part of the public discourse. He works in a variety of media including installation, photography, sculpture, and screenprinting. In recent years, as an extension of his art, he helped produce video public service announcements against police brutality which aired on MTV and BET. In 1992, Dread was a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 1995, he was awarded a Mid Atlantic National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship in Photography. In 2000 he participated in the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue directed By Anna Deavere Smith at Harvard University. That year he also worked on a Special Edition Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop. And in 2001 he received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture and a Creative Capital Grant.
His work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the Robert Miller Gallery in New York and at DeBeyerd in the Netherlands as well as many galleries and museums around the country and internationally. His public sculptures have been installed at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York and in other locations. He has produced several posters which have been pasted on walls around the country. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and in the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.