Chris Doyen

Chris Doyen is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Bristol in the UK. He completed his undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature at California State University Long Beach, afterwards obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Critical Studies Writing Program at California Institute of the Arts. With research interests including modern and postmodern sculpture, phenomenology, and semiotics, his doctoral thesis examines American artist Bruce Nauman’s video installations through the lens of French philosopher Roland Barthes’s theories. A recipient of the 2024 Norman Levan Research Grant, this enabled him to travel to Hong Kong to attend Nauman’s exhibition at the Tai Kwun Contemporary Museum.