Scott Burton: Shape Shift
September 6, 2024–February 2, 2025
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri

We are pleased to announce Scott Burton: Shape Shift, an exhibition opening Friday, September 6 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, MO, organized by independent curator Jess Wilcox, with Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator, Pulitzer Arts Foundation. As the most comprehensive exhibition of Burton’s work ever mounted in the United States, Scott Burton: Shape Shift underscores the breadth of the artist’s vision. By the time of his death at the age of 50 from an AIDS-related illness, Burton had functioned as sculptor, public artist, performance artist, choreographer, art critic, and exhibition curator.

An exhibition catalogue, set to be released summer 2025, will feature a never-before-published excerpt from the transcript of a 1988 lecture Burton gave at de Appel, Amsterdam, annotated by Darling Green, alongside essays by David J. Getsy and Jess Wilcox, and contributions from Brendan Fernandes, Gordon Hall, and Heather Alexis Smith. The catalogue will be co-published by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alphawood Exhibitions.