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John Ploof
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Education: BFA, Pittsburgh State University; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions: XLV Venice Biennale; New Museum of Contemporary Art/Cultural Services, French Embassy, NY; Magasin, Center National d’Art Contemporain, France, Creative Time, NY; Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. Books: The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production (MIT Press/SAIC Press); With Love from Haha, Essays and Notes on a Collective Practice (WhiteWalls/University of Chicago Press); and Culture as Commons, Art and Social Justice Education (Routledge). Awards: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; The Andy Warhol Foundation; Arts Midwest/NEA Fellowship; SigGraph TechnOasis Award; Arts International Travel Grant; Grant Program for Interdisciplinary Artists.