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DEATH IS A DOOR
CC JasperNew York11.12.26

To stand before these works is to stand at the threshold —

and to be asked, gently, to look through.

 Doug Crocco, Death Is a Door, 2026
Death Is a Door
Curated by Doug Crocco

A door is not an ending. It is the last architecture of the living — a frame we build around the one passage we cannot see through.

Thursday, Nov 126–9 pm131 Chrystie St, NYC
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Doug Crocco is an artist and curator based in Los Angeles, California. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Miami, Boston, Berlin, and Melbourne. He received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2004.From 2015 to 2020 he owned and directed Big Pictures Los Angeles, a project space in West Adams. Before that he published cult2vader, an image bank of contemporary art and culture. He is currently making new work and curating shows, dividing his time between Palm Beach, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
Education
2004
Master of Fine Arts, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2001
Graduate Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Solo & two person
2011
Doug Crocco & Aramis Gutierrez, Legalarts, Miami, FL
2010
Entropy, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
2006
Drawing and Sculpture, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
2003
MFA Thesis, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, CA
Curatorial
2026
Death is a Door, CC Jasper, New York, NY
2026
The Come Up, SADE, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Holding Space, Big Pictures Los Angeles
2019
Flat Earth Society, Big Pictures Los Angeles
2019
I Have Always Imagined That Paradise Will Be a Kind of Library, Blake and Vargas, Berlin
2018
Transmutation, Big Pictures Los Angeles
2017
Staring at The Sun, Big Pictures Los Angeles
2017
Polaroid Black, Big Pictures Los Angeles
2016
Slamdance DIG 2, Big Pictures Los Angeles
2015
Slamdance DIG, Big Pictures Los Angeles
2012
NeoNatural, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Big Pictures Los Angeles was a project space in mid-city Los Angeles, founded in 2014 to show underserved mid-career artists, present new forms of digital media, and collaborate with artists in Miami and New York. It was part of a cluster of galleries that opened on Washington Blvd around 2015 — Hilde, Kamra International, Park View, Kristina Kite, Ochi Projects, Shoot the Lobster, Michael Thibault and The Underground Museum. It closed in 2020. Today the program carries on as curatorial projects at spaces around the world.
Selected group exhibitions
2026
The Come Up, SADE, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Getting The Band Back Together, Claremont Graduate University, CA
2024
Hollywood Dream Bubble: Ed Ruscha’s Influence, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
2021
The Design Shop, Tile Blush, Miami, FL
2019
Holding Space, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2019
I Wake Up and Write Down My Dreams, No Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Dreamhouse vs. Punk House, Serious Topics, Los Angeles, CA
2019
House Museum, O-K-O-K, Los Angeles, CA
2018
The Mushroom Show, Craryville, NY
2018
The Art Den, Odd Ark, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Pensive, Tile Blush, Miami, FL
2017
The Cactus Show, Craryville, NY
2017
Polaroid Black, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2017
DBA, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2015
Works of Paper II, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Sharp Contrast, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
2013
Random Ceremonies, The Sacred Door, Venice, CA
2012
Things Fall Together, Claremont Graduate University, CA
2008
The Palm Beach Biennial, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2007
Tugboat, ACME at Domestic, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
L.A. Times, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Pacific Lines, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Supersonic, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2003
Drawings from LA, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2002
Graduate School Show, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
Awards & residencies
2012
The Adolf & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Grant Recipient
2009
The Armory Art Center, Palm Beach, FL, Artist in Residence
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