Featured works

SHELDON SCOTT

Portrait, number 1 man (day clean ta sun down)

2019, endurance performance: sunrise to sunset, starting October 26-November 2 (no performance on Sunday, the 27th), National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.

With 12 hour, 20 minute video: "number 1 man, day clean ta sun down" Jon-Sesrie Goff: Cinematography, Tamar-kali: Composition.

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SHELDON SCOTT

Exorcism of the Sweet (black)

2019, glitter, leather, poly, glue, dimensions variable, Photo: Ben Carver.

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Exorcism of the Sweet (purple)

2019, glitter, leather, poly, glue, dimensions variable, Photo: Ben Carver.

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Exorcism of the Sweet (turquoise)

2019, glitter, leather, poly, glue, dimensions variable, Photo: Ben Carver.

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l.a.d.c.a.f (purple glitter)

2018, charcoal on Coventry rag, glitter, 30 x 22 inches.

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SHELDON SCOTT
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo

2014, neon, Brazil Nuts, dimensions variable.

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SHELDON SCOTT

the Finest Amenities

2017, Performance: Gadsby's Tavern Museum, Old Town Alexandria, Virginia

SHELDON SCOTT-Precious in Da Wadah, A Portrait of the Geechee Performance: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

SHELDON SCOTT
Precious in Da Wadah, A Portrait of the Geechee
2016, Performance: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. Photo: Paul Morigi, 2016.

Video & Podcasts

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Sheldon Scott performance National Portrait Gallery

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist Sheldon Scott discusses live performance

Presented by WUSA 9.

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Sheldon Scott: I’m A Fag and I’m Proud
UNTITLED, ART. Podcast (Live)

Artist Sheldon Scott joins in conversation with Tiana Web Evans.

This program originally aired on the live broadcast of the Untitled Art, Podcast on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 1pm EST, live from the Untitled Art fair in Miami Beach.

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Biography

Sheldon Scott (b. 1976, Pawley’s Island, SC) mines his experiences growing up in the Gullah/Geechee South and professional background in storytelling to examine the Black male form with particular emphasis on biases of usability and expendability in relation to constructs of race, economics and sexuality.

The artist’s works have been presented at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; American University Art Museum, Washington, DC; and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC. As a finalist in the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Scott will present work in the exhibition, The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.

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