Lucas Gomez-Doyle

As an art historian and art administrator, Lucas Gómez-Doyle (he/him) combines his professional identities to study artistic practices and institutional procedures within the modern and contemporary art worlds. In these contexts, his research examines how the social geographies and political dynamics of public art, built environments, and architecture are activated by artists, citizens, and social movements. Driving this focus, is on how each category creates aesthetics and ontologies of civic participation that call for freedom, liberation, and self-determination. In his recent scholarship, he draws heavily from his identity as a second-generation Mexican-American, especially highlighting voices of Chicanx and Latine descent. In addition to these academic pursuits, Lucas is an arts writer/critic. His work has been featured in Newcity Art, Chicago Reader, and Intervenxions, among other venues.

Lucas holds a BA in Social Research & Public Policy from New York University Abu Dhabi and two MAs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, one in Modern and Contemporary Art History and the other in Arts Administration & Policy.