Shirt

Shirt is a multiform artist based in New York City. Working across rap music, video, painting and sculpture, Shirt’s practice becomes 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 study and critique through a deep investment in radical imagination and found practices, Shirt’s work often considers ways of unlearning and seeks to propose questions such as: Who gets to be called an artist? and What is considered art? Shirt has presented work nationally and internationally in public spaces and at venues including Skowhegan New York; New Museum, New York; Dia Chelsea, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Royal College of Art, London; Helmhaus Museum, Zurich; and Centquatre-Paris, Paris. Shirt holds an MFA from the Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland and a GED from the New York State Education Department. He has been an artist-in-residence at Civitella Ranieri and Abrons Art Center, and a 2024-25 Fellow for New City Critics at The Architectural League of New York. He is currently active on social platforms Instagram and Twitter (shirtnyc). He is also Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Facade Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works with artists to transform active construction sites into space to exhibit public art.