Profile

Takashi Shallow is a teaching artist whose experiments intersect visual art with technology and performance. In addition to globally exhibited interdisciplinary work, his ongoing projects include the operation of Gesamt (a record label), collaborations with Percent (a collective of mixed-race artists) and "Insider Art" (a critical inquiry into the epistemology of aesthetics with literary theorist Andrew Dorkin). Dazed Digital includes Shallow in the article '10 of the best Chicago artists right now', and he has received fellowships and residencies at institutions like the Arts Club of Chicago and the Cliff Dwellers. He is a lecturer at the University of Chicago where he teaches art and music classes.