Dread Scott Biography

Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. His work is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989 his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W. Bush called his art “disgraceful” and the entire US Senate denounced and outlawed this work. Dread became part of a landmark Supreme Court case when he and others defied the new law by burning flags on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Dread’s studio is now based in Brooklyn.
His work has been included in exhibitions at New York’s MoMA PS1 the Walker Art Center Minneapolis Jack Shainman Gallery NY and Gallery MOMO in Cape Town South Africa. His performance work has been presented at BAM in Brooklyn and on the streets of Harlem NY. Work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Brooklyn Museum. It has been featured on the cover of Artforum magazine and the front page of NYTimes.com. Dread is a recipient of a 2018 United States Artists Fellowship and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation and the Open Society Institute. He works in a range of media from performance and photography to screen-printing and video.

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