PETER DOROSHENKO

'Peter Doroshenko' (born 1962) is the Ukrainian-American director at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England.

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Life and career

Life and career

Previous to his arrival in the United Kingdom, Peter Doroshenko was the director of the SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium. He has held directorial and curatorial positions over the past fifteen years, including inova (Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse.
In the last five 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, and Salla Tykkā.
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.
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 addition to his role at BALTIC Doroshenko, who is of Ukrainian descent, will be the commissioner for the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale and has recently accepted an advisory role with the PinchukArtCentre in Ukraine.