Szott was born in December 1971 in the Space Coast of Florida.[citation needed] He received a bachelor of arts degree in liberal arts from the University of Central Florida, a master of fine arts degree in critical practice from Ohio State University, and a master of arts degree in interdisciplinary art from San Francisco State University.[1]
Szott has delivered lectures about social practice at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the California College of the Arts.[2][3] In 2018, he was an invited guest of the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study workshop.[4] He was a founding editor of 127 Prince, the first journal devoted to social practice.[citation needed]
At some point, Szott was a member of the United States Merchant Marine and also worked as a chef. He is now a public librarian in Weston, Vermont.[5][6][7]
A member of the Democratic Party, Szott was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 2018, representing the Windsor 4-1 district, which contains the towns of West Hartford, Barnard, Pomfret, and most of Quechee. Szott was elected unopposed.[8] Szott did not run for re-election in 2020.[9]