“Workers Housing Saadiyat Island: Guggenheim Museum Souvenir” (2013)

Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, activist and founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/d), REPOhistory, and Gulf Labor Coalition. His publications include It’s The Political Economy, Stupid co-edited with Oliver Ressler, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture, both Pluto Press UK. Recent installations include Imaginary Archive at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and Zeppelin University, Germany, as well as the Precarious Workers Pageant in Venice, Italy. Sholette is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Theory, Associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program at the Graduate school of Design Harvard University, as well as Associate Professor in the Queens College Art Department, City University of New York where he helped establish the new MFA Concentration SPQ (Social Practice Queens). https://www.tumblr.com/blog/gregsholette.

Matt Greco is a sculptor, photographer and designer living and working in Queens NY. He received his BFA from Armstrong Atlantic University and his MFA from Queens College CUNY. His work has been exhibited internationally and domestically including the Telfair Museum of Art (GA), Desoto Row Gallery (GA), the Dorsky Gallery (NY), the NY Studio Gallery (NY), Gallery 126 (Ireland), the Beacon Gallery (CA), the Baron Gallery (OH), and the Kurbas Center (Ukraine). He is an adjunct professor of art at Queens College CUNY and is the founder and director of the Digital Imaging Laboratory there.