Zoë Charlton creates drawings that explore the ironies of contemporary social and cultural stereotypes. Her work has been exhibited at museums such as Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; and Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. She was a recipient of a 2012 Pollock-Krasner grant and a 2014 Rubys Artist Project Grant, and she was a finalist for the 2015 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. Charlton is an associate professor and chair of the department of art at American University. She received an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Charlton’s residency is generously supported by funds raised in honor of Suzanne Fetscher’s legacy.
