Dread Scott is an interdisciplinary artist whose art encourages viewers to re-examine ideals of American society. In 1989, the US Senate outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it “disgraceful” because of its transgressive use of the American flag. His artwork, The All African People’s Consulate (2024), was included in the Venice Biennial. His work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, the Walker Art Center, Cristin Tierney Gallery and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a 2023 Rome Prize Fellow and has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and United States Artists.
In 2019 he presented Slave Rebellion Reenactment, a community-engaged project that reenacted the largest rebellion of enslaved people in US history. The project was featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and on CNN with Christiane Amanpour.