Chris Doyle is a multi-media artist who was born in Pennsylvania, in 1959. He is currently working and living in Brooklyn, New York, and Mexico City, Mexico. In his animation-based practice, he explores aspiration and progress, his main goal is to question “the foundation of a culture consumed by striving.” Through his work, he seeks to depict a world anxious in the shadow of a looming apocalypse, where environmental disaster and social inequities continue with increasing prevalence and complexity. To further drive his focus of restoration and conservation, his work often features industrial ruin, debris, and waste. Education Doyle received his B.F.A. at Boston College School of Arts and Sciences in 1981, and received his Master of Architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 1985. Work Along his with enormous body of public work, his animations, paintings and drawings have been shown at MASSMoCA, MoMA P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Olana, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Queens Museum of Art, the Tang Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany, The Taubman Museum of Art, the Norton Museum in Palm Beach; the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland Oregon; and Sculpture Center in New York. His animations have been included as part of the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, and the Melbourne International Arts Festival (2005). Awards Doyle received the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award in 2000. He is the recipient of a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the 2014 Borusan Contemporary Art Collection Prize. Doyle has also been awarded grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA, and the MAP Fund. Notable works Some of his major public projects have included BRIGHT CANYON, which was presented by the Times Square Alliance and used Times Square's electronic billboards to create the illusion of a beautiful canyon with waterfalls and animals (2014); "The Fluid", an animation installation on dozens of screens inside the Fulton Street Subway Station (2017); LEAP, a video projection in New York City's Columbus Circle, presented by Creative Time (2000); and Commutable, where he gilded the commuter and bike path on the Williamsburg Bridge in 22k gold, presented by the Public Art Fund on the Lower East Side (1996). Notable concepts Cycles In an interview with Patricia Maloney, Doyle refers to a painting series called The Course of an Empire, by Thomas Cole. From