Kerry Doran
Research Fellow
Kerry Doran is a PhD Candidate in the Art History program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Their dissertation focuses on the technological practices and epistemologies of Indigenous peoples across the Americas, as well as visual cultures of the early internet in relation to race, space, and place. Currently, Doran is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College and an External Advisor for Web Commissions at M+. Prior to doctoral study, Doran was on the founding team of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, design, and technology; they were also the director of bitforms and Postmasters, respectively, two New York City galleries specializing in technology-related contemporary art. Since 2018, Doran has worked as an independent curator and art critic, organizing exhibitions with the Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Art Collection, Feral File, M+, UrbanGlass, and UV Estudios, and publishing in Affidavit, Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Flash Art, Real Life, SFMOMA’s Open Space, and Terremoto, as well as exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. Across their work, Doran is committed to centering practitioners, communities, histories, and worldviews that have been neglected or undermined within the discipline of art history.