Artist’s Project: Chris Doyle

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Doyle’s “Untitled House” series—hundreds of tiny, meticulously rendered watercolors of personal dwellings—began as a memory exercise for the artist as he recalled the various suburban neighborhoods of his youth. The artist has come to view them as “portraits of people I haven’t met.” They appear throughout the issue.

Chris Doyle is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Boston College and his Master's in Architecture from Harvard University. His work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, P.S.1/MoMA, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Sculpture Center, and as part of the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center. His temporary and permanent urban projects include commissions for the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia; Stockholm, Sweden; Melbourne, Australia; Edmonton, Canada; Culver City, California; Tampa, Florida; Kansas City, Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky; and Austin, Texas. Doyle received a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the 2014 Borusan Contemporary Art Collection Prize, and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA, and the MAP Fund.