Doug Crocco
Artist and curator · Los Angeles, California
doug@dougcrocco.com · dougcrocco.com
Doug Crocco is an artist and curator based in Los Angeles, California. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Miami, Boston, and Melbourne. He received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2004. From 2015 to 2020 he was owner and director of the project space Big Pictures Los Angeles. He is currently producing new artworks, and spending time in Mexico City working on new projects.
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 exhibitions
2011
Doug Crocco & Aramis Gutierrez, Legalarts, Miami, FL
2010
Entropy, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2006
Drawing and Sculpture, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA, with Gustavo Godoy
2003
MFA Thesis, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Selected group exhibitions
2026
The Come Up, SADE, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Getting The Band Back Together, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, 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 (plus Cat 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, Claremont, 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
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, CA
2019
Flat Earth Society, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2019
I Have Always Imagined That Paradise Will Be a Kind of Library, Blake and Vargas, Berlin
2018
Transmutation, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2017
Staring at The Sun, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2017
Polaroid Black, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2016
Slamdance DIG 2, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
2015
Slamdance DIG, Big Pictures Los Angeles, CA
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 closed in 2020; the program carries on as curatorial projects at spaces around the world.
Awards & residencies
2012
The Adolf & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Grant Recipient
2009
The Armory Art Center, Palm Beach, FL, Artist in Residence
Selected press