Peter Doroshenko

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Peter Doroshenko (born 1962 in Chicago, IL) is the President and Artistic Director of the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.^[1]

[edit] Life and career

Previous to his arrival in Kiev, Peter Doroshenko was the director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. He has held director and curator positions over the past fifteen years, including SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, inova (Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse.

In the last ten years, Doroshenko has organized various one-person exhibitions including artists Michaël Borremans, Candice Breitz, Maurizio Cattelan, Sam Durant, Meschac Gaba, Kendell Geers, Luisa Lambri, John McCracken, João Penalva, Bojan Sarcevic, Kim Sooja, Pascal Marthine-Tayou, Barthélémy Toguo, Salla Tykka and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Doroshenko has written or contributed to several books and numerous exhibition catalogues on various artists including Peter Bonde, Dora Garcia, Joseph Havel, Uri Tzaig, Adriana Varejão, and Erwin Wurm.

From 1996 until 1998, Doroshenko was a trustee of the board at the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv.^[2]

Since 1999, he has been a visiting lecturer at the Core Program at the Glassell School of Art, Houston, and since 2004, at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. He has also lectured extensively at other post-graduate programs and residencies over the years including: de Ateliers, Amsterdam; Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York.

In 2002, France awarded Doroshenko with the Diploma of the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.^[3]

Doroshenko, who is of Ukrainian descent, was the commissioner for the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale.