Claire Doherty

Claire Doherty is a curator, writer, and educator who investigates new and unconventional models of curatorial practice. Doherty is the Founder and Director of Situations, a commissioning and research program based at the University of West England in Bristol. Situations commissions artists’ projects, often outside conventional gallery or museum settings, with an emphasis on new forms of public engagement and broad international distribution. In collaboration with the Litmus Research Initiative and various curators and institutions, Doherty organized ONE DAY SCULPTURE, a diverse series of twenty commissioned, 24-hour ephemeral public artworks across New Zealand. She edited Situation (2009), part of the Documents of Contemporary Art series, and Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (2004). Doherty is a Visting Lecturer in Curating at the Royal College of Art in London and Senior Research Fellow at the University of West England in Bristol.

Lives and works in Bristol, England.