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Pope .L

Pope.L (also known as William Pope.L) is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. He has been making and exhibiting multidisciplinary works since the 1970s and has been featured in numerous publications including Intersections edited by Marci Nelligan and Nicole Mauro and How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness by Darby English.


Pope.L was the recipient of the 2012 Joyce Foundation Award and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.


Courtesy of Steve Turner

Born 1955
Hometown Newark, NJ
Lives and Works Chicago, IL
Education
Mabou Mines Re.Cher.Chez, Theater Intensive, New York, NY, 1985
MFA, Mason Gross School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1981
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program, New York, NY, 1978
BA, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ, 1978
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 1975
Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Studio Museum of Harlem, New York

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

Representing Galleries

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY

Articles

Michele Robecchi Picks his Favorite Artspace Works
Michele Robecchi Picks his Favorite Artspace Works

Prints by Pipilotti Rist, Nari Ward, Pope .L and Lorraine O'Grady are among the respected critic's choices

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