Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series: Jennifer Doyle

April 25 | 6 to 7:30 p.m. | Grant Street Studios

Jennifer Doyle will discuss her recent co-curated exhibition Scientia Sexualis, ICA Los Angeles 2024, and her pioneering theorizations about sexual politics and art.

Doyle is a scholar, critic and independent curator based in Los Angeles, California. She writes about sexual politics, art and sports — sometimes all at once. Her recent work is centered on sexual harassment.

Doyle is also a professor of English at University of California, Riverside. At UCR, Doyle teaches arts-centered courses in Gender Studies/Queer Theory and American Literature/Visual Culture. As a curator, she advocates for performance-centered practices and has worked with Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Vincent Price Art Museum, and The Broad in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA), a non-profit arts space and curatorial collective based in Chinatown, and has been involved with HRLA since 2012. Doyle maintains a website listing PhD programs that have stopped using the GRE, and started a crowdsourcing project listing MA programs in English that offer partial or full funding.

In addition, she is the author of Shadow of My Shadow (2024), Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015), Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013), and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2007). She is co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996). She is the current President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.