Dick Goody

Professor of Art
Director of the Oakland University Art Gallery
Location: 209 West Wilson Hall
Phone: 248 370 3376
Fax: 248 370 3377
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.dickgoody.net

Dick Goody is the director of the Oakland University Art Gallery. A curator of contemporary art, he has organized over sixty curatorial projects, and written more than fifty exhibition catalogues. Recent curatorial projects include: Nostalgia & Outrage, 2024, Image and the Photographic Allusion, 2022, American Paintings from the Nancy and Sean Cotton Collection, 1850–1940, 2020, and Your Very Own Paradise, 2019. In his curatorial role, he has moderated numerous symposiums and panels on contemporary art and education at venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Wayne State University, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. As a professor of art, he specializing in painting, contemporary art, and curatorial practices. He currently teaches Senior Seminar in Studio Art. He has shown his paintings in London, New York, and Detroit. His most recent solo exhibitions include The Garden City at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI, and The Making of the Dauphin at the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI. His newest body of work, Observation Station, painted on the edge of the Manistee National Forest, capture the margins of personal identity in the context of the sublime. Goody has MFA from The Slade School of Fine in London, England; a PGCE from Middlesex University, London, England; and a BFA from Bath Academy of Art, England.