Visiting Artist Series: Linda Johnson Dougherty

Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Linda Johnson Dougherty --- Art Now: Contemporary Curatorial Practices

This event is organized and sponsored by the Catherine J. Smith Gallery, Office of Arts & Cultural Programs and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University

Linda Johnson Dougherty Biography
Linda Johnson Dougherty, Chief Curator & Curator of Contemporary Art for the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, most recently curated “Park Pictures: Artists’ Billboard Projects” (2009-2010); “Steed Taylor: Road Tattoos” (2008), “The BIG Picture” (2007); “Contemporary North Carolina Photography” (2006-2007); “Crosscurrents: Art, Craft and Design in North Carolina” (2005-2006); and “Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight” (2003-2004) and is currently developing exhibitions of contemporary art, including solo shows of Bob Trotman (2010) and Anthony Goicolea (2011), and coordinating artists’ commissions for the Museum Park.

Before moving to North Carolina in 1993, she was a curator at The Phillips Collection, a research associate in the Department of Twentieth-Century Art at the National Gallery of Art, and a research assistant at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. She was the co-director of the Office of Public Art for the North Carolina Arts Council from 1998-2000 and a project coordinator for the Artworks for State Buildings Program, North Carolina Arts Council from 1995-1998.

As an independent curator and critic based in Chapel Hill, she contributed reviews and articles on contemporary art to numerous national art publications, including Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, and Public Art Review, and has also written exhibition catalogues and guest curated exhibitions for museums and contemporary art centers in North Carolina and throughout the United States. She has served on selection panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. She has a BA in Art History from Wesleyan University and an MA in Art History from Williams College.