SOCIAL PRACTICE, WRITER, CURATOR
GAVIN KROEBER
Gavin Kroeber is an artist who creates events, gatherings, and excursions that interrogate the cultural dynamics of power and their expression in the poetics of place. His projects are collaborative, bringing interdisciplinary ensembles together within a constellation of sites to generate artworks and exhibitions. He frequently orchestrates gatherings that route participants through cityscapes, such as "New Cities, Future Ruins" (2016) in Dallas, awarded SMU’s Meadows Prize, and "Dwell in Other Futures: Art / Urbanism / Midwest" (2018) in St. Louis. He explores landscape through decolonial and posthumanist lenses, in projects such as "Towards an Archaeology of the Future" (2018-ongoing), a cycle of actions in wildfire burn zones, presented by di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art and the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, and "Art + Landscape STL" (2018-19), presented by the HKW (Berlin) and G-CADD (St. Louis). Kroeber serially instigates thinktanks, salons, and experimental schools, including "Fire School" (2020-21) and "Laboratory for Suburbia" (2020-2022). Kroeber has been a member of several art collectives, including the event platform Experience Economies (2010-15). Kroeber is a “disciplinary belligerent,” poaching from visual art, urbanism, and experimental theater and intentionally blurring artistic, curatorial, and dramaturgical modes of authorship. He is a 2025-2027 Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardee, a 2024 Creative Capital awardee, and a 2022 Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellow. He holds a Master of Design Studies from the Harvard GSD and has taught at the College of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art and the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis.
“My work emerges from long-term engagements with place, extended periods of intensive fieldwork, and the slow-and-steady work of relationship-building. The Tulsa Artist Fellowship offers a rare and remarkable opportunity to have rigorous, durational art research supported over a period of years—and to build a project from that foundation.”