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

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

Currently Head of Research and External Affairs at Speciwomen, she has previously held positions at the Dia Art Foundation, Clark Art Institute, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and Bowdoin College Museum of Art.






charlotteyoukilis@gmail.com

Curatorial and Public Programs


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


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-curated with Zuhra Amini, Hayoung Chung, Javier Villaneuva, and Micaela Vindman) 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


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



Writing and Editorial


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

In Conversation: Taína Cruz for Speciwomen, 2023

Speciwomen, Issue 5 (Curated by Coco Fusco), 2023




Visual Work


San Cassiano, 2023

Moving Under Teodelapio, 2022