In his animation-based practice, Chris Doyle (1960-2025) explored aspiration and progress, questioning the foundation of a culture consumed by striving. His narratives featured a world of increasing speed and complexity in which environmental disaster and social inequities continue to generate anxiety of a looming apocalypse.
He had exhibited widely at venues in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Queens Museum of Art, P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, MassMoCA, The San Jose Museum of Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Wellin Museum of Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Sculpture Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and as part of the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
His temporary and permanent urban projects included commissions for the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia; the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Stockholm, Sweden; as well as for Melbourne, Australia, and Edmonton, Canada; within the U.S., he received commissions from Culver City, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Tampa, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; Austin, Texas; Times Square; and, most recently, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Wave Hill in New York City.
He was the recipient of a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the 2014 Borusan Contemporary Art Collection Prize. His work had also been supported by grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA, and the MAP Fund. He received his bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Boston College and his master’s in architecture from Harvard University.
At MacDowell in 2005, Doyle completed several videos to be included in Flight Power Love Tower, a solo show at Jessica Murray Projects in 2005.
