peterdoroshenko

Peter Doroshenko is a contemporary art museum director, freelance writer and university lecturer. Doroshenko is the director of Dallas Contemporary, Texas, one of the largest non-collecting art museums. He has held director positions including: PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; inova - Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee; and curator posts at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Recently, Doroshenko has organized one-person exhibitions with artists: Andreas Gursky, Georg Herold, Nate Lowman, Mariko Mori, Richard Phillips, Rob Pruitt, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, Sam Taylor-Wood and Erwin Wurm.

In 2007 and 2009, Doroshenko was commissioner for the Ukrainian national pavilions at the Venice Biennale in Italy. In 2010, he was the co-curator of the Busan Biennale in South Korea and published a monograph on contemporary art collectors who have constructed their own personal museums entitled, Private Spaces for Contemporary Art, with Rispoli Books, Brussels.

For twenty-two years, Doroshenko has lectured and taught at post-graduate programmes including: de Ateliers, Amsterdam; Core Program/Glassell School of Art, Houston; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; Le Pavilion/Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Whitney Independent Study Program, New York.