ZOË Charlton
Iris Project Resident: December 2020
Zoë Charlton (Baltimore, MD) creates drawings that explore the ironies of contemporary social and cultural generalities. She depicts her subject’s relationship with their world by combining images of culturally loaded objects and landscapes with undressed bodies.
She received her MFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin and participated in residencies at Artpace Residency (TX), McColl Center for Art + Innovation (NC), the Skowhegan School of Painting (ME), and the Patterson Residency at the Creative Alliance (MD). Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions including The Delaware Contemporary (DE), the Harvey B. Gantt Center (NC), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR), Studio Museum of Harlem (NY), Contemporary Art Museum (TX), the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Poland), and Haas & Fischer Gallery (Switzerland).
She is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner grant (2012, a Rubys grant (2014), and was a finalist for the 2015 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Public collections include Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), Studio Museum in Harlem (NY), and the Phillips Collection (DC). Charlton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at American University in Washington, DC. She holds a seat on the Maryland State Arts Council and a co-founder of ‘sindikit, an artist project space in Baltimore, MD.