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2026
Modern Portrait: Group exhibition at Scout Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
150 × 150: Group show celebrating 150 years of art in Wisconsin, Madison Public Library main branch
Even When You Are Lost the Stars Know Your Name: Solo exhibition at Madison Memorial Main Gallery, University of Wisconsin
51st Juried Annual: Group show at Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
2025
Beyond O’Keefe : Contemporary Artists in Wisconsin, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
CHOPSHOP 7: Group show about buildings, The Art Lofts, Universiry of Wisconsin
New Rose Loft Gallery: Solo exhibition of 30 new paintings, New Glarus, Wisconsin
2024
Annual Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College of Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WIisconsin
Inside and Outside Landscapres, solo exhibition at Goodman’s Ironworks (Ballweg Gallery) Madison, Wisconsin
66th Annual Beloit & Vincinity Exhibition, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Artists Biennial, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
2023
Dreams and Nightmares, River Arts Gallery, Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin
Dubuque Museum of Art Biennial, Dubque Iowa
Wisconsin Perspective, Thelma Sadoff Center For The Arts, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin
“Beautiful Loser”, Arts + Literature Lab, Madison Wisconsin
2022
Communication, Communication Art Center, Madison Wisconsin
2015
Bookless, Madison Public Library, Madison Wisconsin
2012
US Presidents Show, Overture Center of Arts, Madison Wisconsin
2018
Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
2007
James Watrous Gallery, U.S. Road Trip, Madison Wisconsin
Work in the collection of John Micheal Kohler Museum, Sheyboygan, WI and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
My paintings investigate pain and difficult life situations through representation and allegory. My influences range from Frida Kahlo to Remedios Varo. I work in a Surrealist style to explore questions and emotions that arise as I navigate life. While each work is a personal expression, my paintings allude to universal themes in hopes of resonating with a broad range of people.
I look at encyclopedias, folk art, scientific drawings, old sourcebooks, photographs and images I have collected. I actually started painting as a response to an unfortunate set of circumstances, when many rolls of film for a photo project I was working on were ruined in the processing phase. I took the very thin negatives and made washed out work prints, then painted those images with black and white oil paint on wood panels. This experience was the beginning of my love of painting.
Recent work is done more intuitively, though purposefully, using color to create mood and emotive qualities. I create work to heal, to help survive. Art elicits emotion and therefore can help us relate to one another. There is no more universal experience than pain. It transcends our socially contructed categories
About
Doug Fath has exhibited his art in galleries across the United States. He received his MFA in photography from University of Illinois Chicago in 1992. His BFA comimg from Columbia Collage in 1990. His work includes photography, drawing, and painting, though he focuses primarily on painting now.
He has sold work to collectors and has exhibited in galleries in both Chicago and Madison Wisconsin where he now resides..
Press
US Road Trip Review at James Watrous Gallery
Beautiful Losers at Art Lit Lab
