Pope L.: - Pope.L (b. 1955) was born in Newark, New Jersey, and presently resides and works in Chicago. He received his B.A. from Montclair State College, New Jersey, in 1978, and also attended the prestigious Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, from 1977 to 1978. In 1981 the artist received his M.F.A. from the Mason Gross School at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and later participated in the Mabou Mines Re.Cher.Chez Theater Intensive from 1983 to 1985 in New York. The artist has been distinguished by a multitude of grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004), the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship (2006), and more recently the Bucksbaum Award (2017).