To support Theaster Gates: Unto Thee (working title), a mid-career survey of the artist and the first major museum presentation in his hometown of Chicago. It will include an installation of objects acquired by Gates from the University of Chicago, large-scale paintings, ceramic pieces, a film series, and a commissioned work that repurpose the former slate roof of the University’s Rockefeller Chapel for a site-specific installation. Catalog essays will situate Gates’s work within a larger art historical framework, with a special focus on his place in contemporary Black art and conceptual artistic practice.