Ms Charlotte Bonham-Carter

Charlotte Bonham-Carter has a BA in English Literature from Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. With a concentration in Gender Theory, she specialised in Queer, Gendered and Post-Colonial readings of literature. She also holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London. She has a broad understanding of visual culture as it relates to contemporary discourse. Joining the Richmond MA Art History and Visual Culture faculty team in September 2011, Charlotte teaches the two Foundations of Professional Practice courses and supervises the Internship.

Charlotte is currently Curator of Art on the Underground, the contemporary art programme that enriches the Tube environment. As Curator, Charlotte commissions artists to make challenging new work that engages local communities, London Underground staff and the London public. Charlotte is currently curating a major new commission set to open in Spring 2012 at Stratford station, the main entry and exit point for the 2012 Olympics.

Charlotte has previously occupied a number of roles within the art world. She has worked as an Assistant Curator in the Collections department of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, in Dublin, where she co-curated (with Christina Kennedy) the exhibition Exquisite Corpse. Based upon the Surrealist parlour game, the exhibition involved a number of eminent writers, curators, art historians and cultural figures. From 2008-09, Charlotte was an Assistant Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, where she worked on the exhibitions, On the Subject of War, This is War! Robert Capa at Work and Gerda Taro, as well a new commission for the Curve Gallery with Peter Coffin. From 2009-11, Charlotte was Curator of Visual Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. At the ICA, Charlotte curated numerous exhibitions including Oscar Tuazon – My Mistake, Chto Delat – The Urgent Need to Struggle (with Richard Birkett) and Nathaniel Mellors – Ourhouse and organised many events, including Power Game, a one-night happening with Liliane Lijn, The Brilliant and the Dark, a performance with Gaggle, Ben White and Eileen Simpson and Artist’s Film Club, a monthly screening programme of artists’ film.

Charlotte is the co-author (with David Hodge) of The Contemporary Art Book (Goodman, 2009 and forthcoming, 2011), a large-scale survey of the most influential artists on the global contemporary art stage. She was also a contributor to The Portrait Now (National Portrait Gallery, 2006), a survey of contemporary portraiture. She is a regular contributor to Flash Art, Art in America and Saatchi On-line and has written for numerous other publications, including Time Out, London, Art Press, Paris and Circa, Dublin.

Charlotte’s research interests are contemporary art on a global stage and the interrelationships of art, exhibitions and institutions. She continues to contribute reviews to a number of international arts publications and co-produces and co-presents (alongside Gemma Tortella) an arts radio programme for London Fields Radio. As a lecturer, Charlotte is interested in looking at the history of art through the study of exhibitions and institutions, placing art within a socio-political and cultural context.

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

The Contemporary Art Book, co-authored with David Hodge (London: Goodman, 2009 & 2011).

Roland, ed., issues I-IV (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2009-2011).

Exquisite Corpse, ed., (Dublin: Irish Musuem of Modern Art, 2008).

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Anj Smith, Flash Art, Nov-Dec 2011.

Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario, Art in America, October 2011.

Morgan Fisher, Flash Art, May-June 2011, 158.

Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Flash Art, April-May 2011, 124.

Our Blindsides: Becky Beasley & Michael Dean, Flash Art, October 2010, 102.

Visual-Linguistic Forms in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roland, June-August 2009, 26-30.

Lilah Fowler, Flash Art, March-April 2009, 93.

Florian Hecker, Flash Art, No. 264, February 2009, 99.

Jamie Shovlin, Untitled, Winter 2008, 20-21.

John Armelder, Flash Art, October 2008, 137.

John Lalor, CIRCA, Autumn 2008, 68-69.

Alan Phelan, CIRCA, Spring 2008, 72-73.

Willie Doherty, Untitled, Spring 2008, 4-5.

Sarah Browne: Sweet Futures, CIRCA, Autumn 2007, 92-93.

Jeff Koons, Flash Art, No. 256, October 2007, 126.

Goshka Macuga, Art Press, October 2007, 105.

Mum and Dad Show: Rose Scott and Jack Morton, Untitled, Summer 2007, 6-7.

Dexter Dalwood, Flash Art, No. 253, March-April 2007, 128.

Johanna Billing, Untitled, Spring 2007, 28-29.

David Osbaldeston, Untitled, Spring 2007, 12-13.

Rebels Without Applause: A new take on the legacy of New Wave, Tank, Volume 4, Issue 8, 94-97.

Florian Baudrexel, Eva Berendes: Chess, Contemporary, February 2007, 69.

Christoph Büchel, Flash Art, No.252, January-February 2007, 118.