George Steven
Working across rap music, performance, installation, video, photography, painting and sculpture, Shirt’s practice often resembles the interplay between Black Dada, Conceptual Art and Hip-Hop, becoming a bricolage of language, sound and object wherein notions of authorship and publics are blurred to create a more expansive readership. Exploring modes of social critique through a deep investment in radical imagination and found practices, Shirt’s work considers ways of unlearning and seeks to propose questions such as: Who gets to be called an artist? and What is considered art? Receiving a GED from the State of New York Education Department and an MFA from The Academy of Art & Design in Basel, Switzerland, in 2022 Shirt began artist-in-residency programs at both Civitella Ranieri's two-month international program in Umbria, Italy, and Abrons Art Center 9-month program in NYC. Upcoming this September, Shirt begins a project interpreting the New York Public Library Picture Collection archive.