Randall Szott lives in Charlotte, VT. He holds an MFA in art critical practices from The Ohio State University, an MA in Interdisciplinary Art from San Francisco State University, and a BA in Liberal Arts with a philosophy minor from the University of Central Florida. He is known mostly in the field of social practice.
He is a founding editor of 127 Prince, ran He Said She Said (an exhibition and event series with his wife Pamela Fraser), and co-organized the Public Culture Lecture Series at threewalls in Chicago, IL.
He has lectured or presented at SFMOMA, basekamp, Skydive, California College of the Arts, and the University of Houston among others. He organized, along with Stephen Wright, the online conference "Cutting Slack: paradoxes of slackerdom."
Szott mostly eschews formal descriptions of his activities and has written anonymously for/as LeisureArts and placekraft. His work for/as LeisureArts has been cited hundreds of times on blogs, in interviews, etc. His writing for placekraft was cited as defining the contemporary sense of neogeography. He has also been interviewed by, and written for, Bad at Sports. He has guest conducted/participated in multiple interviews for them as well including Nato Thompson; Harrell Fletcher and Jen Delos Reyes; Nils Norman; InCUBATE; and Ted Purves. He also wrote an introduction for the book Revelry and Risk.
Szott is also a merchant mariner. He is a cook aboard the largest hopper dredge owned by a US company and has also cooked professionally in restaurants/private clubs in Pittsburgh, PA, Chicago, IL, and Columbus, OH.