Johnny Doley
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Johnny Doley (he/him) grew up surrounded by oak trees in Virginia, and now lives in the sugary arms of a maple in Chicago. An avid birder, he spends his free mornings at Montrose Point, hanging out with the vireos and flycatchers. His artistic practice focuses on the entanglement of living and non-living things, and the ways that anthropocentric ideologies can be broken down through actions of care.
He has exhibited nationally, including The Mildred Complexity(ity) (Narrowsburg, NY), Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), Compound Yellow (Oak Park, IL), Goodwin House Gallery (Alexandria, VA), and Laconia Gallery (Boston, MA). He has also been an artist-in-residence at Mildred’s Lane, and with the Albanian Ornithological Society in Zvërnec, Albania.
Doley is also a founder of Tiny Table Gallery, an artist-run transient exhibition project focusing on small-scale sculpture, and has curated exhibitions with performative events at Watershed Art and Ecology (Chicago, IL), Ohklahomo (Chicago, IL), and the Chicago Athletic Association (Chicago, IL) among others.
His work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library and Mildred’s Lane. He holds a BFA in Painting from Boston University, and an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently a lecturer in Sculpture at SAIC.