Charlotte Cotton

Curator - December 2017

Charlotte Cotton is a writer and curator and currently curator in residence at Metabolic Studio, LA. She has held positions including, curator in residence at the International Center of Photography (2015-2016), and devised the opening program for ICP’s 250 Bowery space. Previously, she was curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1993-2004), head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery (2004-5) in London, and curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2007-9). Charlotte has been a visiting scholar at Yale University, New Haven; NYU and Parsons, The New School for Design, New York; and California College of Art, San Francisco, and critic in residence at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. She has also been a visiting critic at US institutions including, Art Institute, Chicago; UPenn, Philadelphia; UCLA, UC Irvine, USC and UC Riverside in Southern California. Charlotte is also the author of Imperfect Beauty (2000), Then Things Went Quiet (2003), and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004), Photography is Magic (2015) and founder of Words Without Pictures (2009) and eitherand.org(2013).