Artist and editor Charles Gute began exhibiting in the mid-1980s. A graduate of the New Genres Department of the San Francisco Art Institute, he was deeply influenced by the tradition of Bay Area conceptualism that emerged in the late 1960s and 70s. Gute’s work has been exhibited at numerous museums across the United States, including the di Rosa Museum, The Islip Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, and the Hammer Museum. International venues include The ZKM Center for Art and Akademie der Künste in Germany, Löwenbräukunst Zurich, and Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid. In addition to museum and gallery exhibitions, Gute often creates specially commissioned projects for print publications such as Frieze, Flash Art, ArtLies, The Fillip Review, Cartier Art, Schizm Magazine, Le Merle, and Possible Content for 18 Pages. He has been awarded fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the San Francisco Foundation, and has twice been a MacDowell Colony Fellow. In 2010 he was selected for the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) Art & Law Residency Program. The following year he was the subject of a solo exhibition at Walden Affairs in The Hague, and in 2016 he was included in Manifesta 11. Gute’s work has garnered attention from publications such as ARTnews, Artforum, The San Francisco Examiner, Art+Auction, and New York Arts.
The San Francisco Chronicle called him one of several “people to watch in 2014.” A monograph, “Revisions and Queries”, was published in 2008 by The Ice Plant in Los Angeles and is available through Distributed Art Publishers. His work is in the public collections of the Berkeley Art Museum; Holter Museum of Art, Montana; Printed Materials Archive, Mess Hall, Chicago; and the Permanent Art Collection at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. Notable group shows include Institutional Critique Flair Button at Southern Exposure, San Francisco; On Sincerity at Boston University College of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; De-accessioned at Cooper Cole, Toronto; I Like the Art World at EFA Project Space, New York; and A Painting Show at Autocenter, Berlin.
Based in New York, Gute has exhibited and collaborated with Catharine Clark Gallery since 2004.
