Chase Dougherty is a multidisciplinary curator of contemporary art with a formal exhibition design background. She has over a decade of professional arts experience and has provided key knowledge and technical expertise to the success of projects through research, writing, development, and design.

She is currently the Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art at The Delaware Contemporary, where she has curated and coordinated over fifty exhibitions featuring emerging and middle career artists within the Mid-Atlantic region, and has served as adjunct faculty at Delaware College of Art and Design, where she taught several topic specific art history seminars. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Museum Exhibition Planning + Design from University of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Sonoma State University.

Her curatorial practice focuses on collaboratively exploring how to engage artists and audiences with contemporary art through designed interventions.  Her graduate thesis, Introduction as Interface: Activating the Exhibition Threshold with Multisensory Design has served as a working model with findings that were published for the 2022 SEGD Academic Summit.

In 2015, she founded Art Talk Collective (archived), an online platform dedicated to art writing with an emphasis on removing academic formality, encouraging contributors to be confident in their artistic interests and opinions regardless of their education or experience. Over the course of four years, Art Talk Collective published over a hundred articles on contemporary art topics, artist interviews, and exhibition reviews. Her other writing accolades include Art Maze Mag and the National Association for Museum Exhibitions, as well as contributions to several artist catalogs.