Graduate Symposium 2019

Douglas Fogle is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles with over twenty years of curatorial experience at three major American institutions (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles). His most recent exhibitions include Andy Warhol: Dark Star, Museo Jumex in June 2017, Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 2017-2018 and Bless: Neutra Dasein at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, Los Angeles, 2018. From 2009-2012 he served as Deputy Director, Exhibition and Programs and Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles where he organized a variety of exhibitions including Ed Ruscha: On the Road (2011), an international group exhibition All of this and nothing (2011), Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments (2010), and Luisa Lambri: Being there (2010). Previously, he served as curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh from 2005-2009 where he organized Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International in 2008. Prior to that, Fogle was a curator in the Visual Arts Department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis from 1994-2005 where he curated a wide array of exhibitions such as Painting at the Edge of the World (2001), The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982 (2003), Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters 1962-1964 (2005), and solo exhibitions with Catherine Opie and Julie Mehretu. Also a writer, he has published widely in exhibition catalogues and journals such as Artforum, Flash Art, Parkett, and frieze.