Kayleigh Doyen
Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)
Kayleigh Doyen (she/her/hers) is a Michigan-born Xicana completing her second year of the fellowship. She recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and a minor in Museum Studies. Kayleigh spent her first year of the fellowship in the American Art Department and has worked with the Modern and Contemporary Art Department over the past year. During her undergraduate, Kayleigh curated two on-campus exhibitions highlighting Black and Latinx narratives, and completed internships at the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Her focus of study is modern and contemporary art in the United States by historically underrepresented artists; She also maintains an analog photography practice that is critical of rural, Middle American landscape. This fall, Kayleigh will begin the Hot Metal Bridge Post-Baccalaureate program at the University of Pittsburgh and has plans to apply to graduate school.
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