Charlotte Youkilis is a curator, writer, and artist based in New York City.

She currently works as Curatorial Assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Previously, she had held positions at the Dia Art Foundation, Clark Art Institute, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

She holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BA in History from Bowdoin College.

charlotteyoukilis@gmail.com

Curatorial Projects

Curator, Madeline Gins: Infinite Systems at the Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), 2025

Curator, Correspondence, featuring Lucia Bell-Epstein, Mira Dayal, Naima Green, Raffaella della Olga, Sydney Mieko King, Cheryl Mukherji, Grethell Rasua, Gabrielle Garcia Steib, Alex Westfall, and Audra Wolowiec in honor of Index Art Book Fair at Kurimanzutto (CDMX, Mexico), 2024

Co-curator, [ ] with selections from the Marieluise Hessel Collection including: VALIE EXPORT, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, Sondra Perry, Robert Ryman, Lise Sarfati, Kiki Smith, and Rosemarie Trockel at the Hessel Museum of Art (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), 2023

Curatorial Assistant, People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965, including Dawoud Bey, Larry Clark, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Peter Hujar, Rashid Johnson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Simmons, and others at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, ME), 2023

Writing

Tidal Locking: Language, Perception, and The Forces That Hold us in Orbit for SPILL 180, 2025

Yellow Should Always Follow Blue, including contributions by Susan Bee, Lucy Ives, Tausif Noor, and Aviva Silverman, published in collaboration with CCS Bard and 1080PRESS

Rosemary Mayer’s Image-Text Works for Speciwomen, 2024

Public Programs

Aviva Silverman and Pamela Sneed think about Madeline Gins at Giorno Poetry Systems on the occasion of the exhibition, Madeline Gins: Infinite Systems, 2025

Anomalous Objects at Triple Canopy, 2025

Analog Manipulations: Illegibility and the Artist’s Book at the Center for Book Arts, 2024

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