Jeff Gates’ CV
ART PROJECTS
Karoline Leavitt, from “Faces of the Republican Party,” © 2025, Jeff Gates
FACES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, 2022 – Present
THE GOP’s HOUSE OF CARDS, 2024
Poker Deck Featuring Portraits from “Faces of the Republican Party”
CHRONICLES OF AMERICAN POLITICS, Google Arts & Culture, 2010 – 2021
CHAMOMILE TEA PARTY, 2010 – Present
UNDERGROUND POSTERS, Washington, DC Metro Ads, 2012
ARTISTS FOR A BETTER IMAGE, 1989 – Present
MY TWEET TOOTH, Twitter, 2008
DICHOTOMY: IT WAS A MATTER OF TIME AND PLACE, 2001
JEFF AUCTIONS HIS PERSONAL DEMOGRAPHICS ON eBAY, 1999
IN OUR PATH, 1983 – 1993
Photo documentary about the “last freeway to be built in LA”
PHOTOGRAPHS, 1974–Present
ARTISTS for a BETTER IMAGE, Non-profit organization formed to study artist stereotypes in contemporary culture, 1989–Present
BARRIO MOBILE ART STUDIO, Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles, 1976
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/COMPETITIONS
2025 Presentation, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Holly J. Mitchell, exhibited photographs from In Our Path in her community presentation on eminent domain
2024 Solo Exhibition, “Faces of the Republican Party,” American University Museum
2024 Graphis, Poster Awards 2025 (Silver Award)
2022 Graphis, Designers for Peace (Honorable Mention)
2022 Two Years, Many Lives, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Finalist, Poster Stellars, First Intercontinental Poster Competition
2021 Bienal de Diseño de Perú
2021 Graphis, Political Posters 2 (2 Silver Awards and 1 Honorable Mention)
2012 Installation, Underground Posters, DC Metro, Washington, DC
2012 Solo Exhibition, Chamomile Tea Party, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC
2008 Group Exhibition, “This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs,” Huntington Library, San Marino, California
1993 Solo Exhibitions, In Our Path, El Camino Community College and Downey Museum of Art, Connected communities on both ends of the newly opened 105 freeway via the internet to discuss the effects of the building of the freeway on their lives
1992 Solo Exhibition, Maryland by Invitation, Baltimore Museum of Art
1989 Group Exhibition, City: Visions and Revisions, Dia Art Foundation, New York City
1982 Solo Exhibition, Breast Plates, Robert Samuels Gallery, New York City
1980, Solo Exhibition, Breast Plates, San Francisco Camerawork Gallery
1980 Group Exhibition, “Movements/Corps,” Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris
ARTICLES and REVIEWS ABOUT JEFF GATES’ WORK
Exhibition Catalogue, “Faces of the Republican Party”
American University Museum, 2024
An Artist’s Polemical Portraits Turn MAGA Grotesque,
Washington Post, “Faces of the Republican Party,” 2024
When MAGAs Roamed the Republic, Print Magazine, 2024
The Daily Heller: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Print Magazine, 2021
The New John Heartfield, Print Magazine, 2020
Opp Art: Artistic Dispatches from the Frontlines of Resistance, The Nation, 2018-2025
Graphic Reflections on the Sorry State of US Politics, Hyperallergic, 2018
Remix Politics, Print Magazine, 2018
Chamomile Tea Party: remixed propaganda images for the Trump age, BoingBoing, 2018
The Rightous Mind, Jonathan Haidt, Knopf Doubleday, 2016
These Remixed WWII-Style Election Posters: What Are They Saying?, The Atlantic, 2012
Subway images aim to return civility to politics, Washington Post, 2012
WWII Propaganda Posters Reimagined as Modern Protest Ads, Adweek, 2012
Chamomile Tea Party Urges An End To Partisan Bickering Through Old-School Poster Designs, Huffington Post, 2010
The Lure of the Local, Lucy Lippard, 1997
Scenes of Severed Neighborhoods, Review of In Our Path, Los Angeles Times, 1983
Review of Breast Plates, Artforum, April 1982
SELECTED WRITING
We’re Choking On Our Words, 2024
It’s Time to Release Our Own Kraken!, Illumination, 2022
The Lesson Collector, Illumination, 2021
That Portrait of Michelle Obama, Medium, 2018
The Art of Grocery Shopping, Coffeelicious, 2016
I Was a Card-Carrying Member of the “First Moon Flights” Club, Smithsonian Magazine, 2016
Photoshopping the Pain Out of a Memory, The Atlantic, 2016
I Was Taking Pictures of My Daughters. Someone Thought I Was Exploiting Them, Washington Post, 2014
Uneventful: The Rise of Photography, MuseumsEtc, 2013 (Book)
A Wall, a War, and a Black and White World, NPR, 2009
New Roles for Artists in the Information Age, New York Foundation For the Arts, 1996
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Baltimore Museum of Art
Seattle Art Museum
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Princeton University
University of California, Los Angeles
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, and AWARDS
SXSW, Web Site Finalist, ART/CULTURE Traditional and Electronic Art and Performance for DICHOTOMY: It Was a Matter of Time and Place, 2002
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Grant, 1984, 1990
Maryland State Arts Grant, 1988, 1991
National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Administration Fellow, 1990
WORK EXPERIENCE
LEAD PRODUCER, NEW MEDIA INITIATIVES, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1998 – 2018
PROFESSOR, PHOTOGRAPHY and COMPUTER GRAPHICS, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1985 – 1997. Various other institutions, including the University of Washington and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1975-1984
EDUCATION
MFA, PHOTOGRAPHY and GRAPHIC DESIGN, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, POLITICAL SCIENCE (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS), Michigan State University
To view my past work in my detail, visit the ART PROJECTS section of this site.