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Douglas Fogle

Douglas Fogle, curator of the 2008 Carnegie International, is curator of contemporary art at Carnegie Museum of Art.

Fogle assumed this curatorial post in 2005 after eleven years at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he last served as curator in the Visual Arts Department. During his tenure at the Walker, he initiated a series of exhibitions with emerging artists as well as a number of group exhibitions, including: Emerging Photography in the 1990s (1997), Painting at the Edge of the World (2001), and solo exhibitions with Catherine Opie and Julie Mehretu. He also organized the The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960–1982, a comprehensive historical survey of the conceptual uses of photography, which opened in October 2003 and traveled to two American and two European institutions. His exhibition Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962–1964 opened at the Walker in November 2005 and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2006. 

Fogle received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1986. The following year, he began doctoral studies in the history of consciousness with an emphasis on contemporary visual culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz and advanced to candidacy in 1991. Fogle’s extensive writing credits include exhibition catalogues to accompany all of his major exhibitions, as well as regular contributions to Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, and Parkett.

Heather Pesanti

Heather Pesanti is assistant curator of contemporary art at Carnegie Museum of Art, where she has worked since October of 2005. She came to Pittsburgh from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, where she was the 2005 Marjorie Susman curatorial fellow and was responsible for organizing two installments in the museum’s ongoing emerging artists series, 12x12: New Artists, New Work.

A 1997 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Pesanti earned masters degrees in cultural anthropology at the University of Oxford, England, and in modern/contemporary art history at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Jeanne Collins & Associates (JCA), an arts-and-cultural communications firm for nonprofit organizations. At JCA, Pesanti participated in a variety of cultural projects, including the World Monuments Fund, New York, and the launch of Dia:Beacon for the Dia Art Foundation.

In addition to her curatorial position at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pesanti has been an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. She is also a member of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District Design Committee.