David Pagel

David Pagel is an art critic, educator, curator, dioramatist and bike enthusiast.

Pagel is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and has written nearly 500 articles since 1997. He serves as Chair of the Art Department at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

Pagel has written several books and essays about artists such as Jim Isermann and Irene Hardwicke Olivieri.

He was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Contemporary Arts Criticism in 1990 and was a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia in 2002.

David Pagel has curated:

• Unfinished Business at the Parrish Art Museum (2016)
• Pieceable Kingdom at the Beacon Arts Building (2011)
• Underground Pop at the Parrish Art Museum (2010)
• LA Now at the Las Vegas Art Museum (2009)
• Painting Design at Claremont Graduate University (2007)
• 702 Series: Sush Machida Gaikotsu at Las Vegas Art Museum (2007)
• POPulence at Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston (2005)
• Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion (with Terrie Sultan) for the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston (8/22/08-11/15/08) and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University (1/13/09-4/4/09)
• Electric Mud at the Blaffer (1/17/09-3/28/09)

• http://www.aaavegas.com/art/las-vegas-art-museum-presents-la-now-organized-by-david-pagel/2008/11/29
• http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5820.asp

• M.A., Harvard University, Art History 1987
• B.A., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature, with Honors and Distinction in the Humanities, 1985