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Pope.L (b. 1955, Newark, NJ; based in Chicago, IL) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working in a range of media, from writing, painting, performance, installation, video to sculpture. He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and received his BA from Montclair State College in Montclair, NJ, in 1978. He attended the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art before earning his MFA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, in 1981. His first performances occurred on the streets of New York, and later at major venues, such as Anthology Film Archives, Franklin Furnace, Just Above Midtown, Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, Performa, SculptureCenter all in New York; as well as MIT, Cambridge, MA; MOCA Los Angeles; Shinjuku Station, Tokyo; Diverse Works, Houston; Cleveland Institute of Art; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, UK; Prospect.2, New Orleans; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and CAM Houston, among others. Recent exhibitions, performances, and projects include Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2022); Portikus, Frankfurt (2021); documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (2017); and 32nd Biennal de São Paulo (2016). His work has been the subject of important group and solo shows throughout the span of his almost 50-year career, including The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (2010); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Thirty Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008); Black Is, Black Ain’t, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2007); 7e Biennale de l’Art Africaine Contemporaine, Dakar, Senegal (2006); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004); William Pope.L: the friendliest Black artist in America, ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, among others. Pope.L is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Bucksbaum Award, Joyce Foundation Award, the Tiffany Foundation Award, the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, the Bellagio Center Residency, Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship, Andy Warhol Foundation grant, Creative Capital Foundation grant, Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation grant, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Artists Space grant, and more.