Clément Chéroux

Clement Cheroux, 2010

Clément Chéroux (* 1970 ) is a French photo historian and author . Since 2017 he has been Senior Curator of Photography at SFMOMA in San Francisco .

Chéroux holds a Masters in Aesthetics, Technology and Fine Arts from the University of Paris VIII and a Diploma in Photography from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles . He received his PhD in art history from the Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and was a visiting researcher in the Photographic Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum .

Before moving to SFMOMA, Chéroux had worked as a photography curator at the Photography Department at the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Center Pompidou in Paris since 2007 . From 2013 to 2016 he was chief curator there. At the same time, he taught photography at the Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Université Paris III and the University of Lausanne .

Awards

• Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (Knight) for his exhibition on Edvard Munch,
• Modern Eye
• Nadar Award for Photography Book of the Year for La subversion des images, surréalism, photographie, film (with Quentin Bajac)
• Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult (with Andreas Fischer).

Publications

• Clément Chéroux, Ute Eskildsen (Ed.): Franked Fantastereien. The playfulness of photography in the medium of the postcard . Steidl, Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-86521-653-3 .
• Diplopia. Image policy of September 11th. Translated from the French by Robert Fajen. Konstanz University Press 2011.

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