Biography

Curator of the Museum of Modern Art of San Francisco




Clément Chéroux, born in 1970, is a historian of photography and curator of French exhibitions. Since 2016, he is chief curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He was previously curator for photography at the Center Pompidou (Mnam-CCI). He was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University and a boarder at the Académie de France in Rome. He taught at the University of Paris I, Paris VIII and the National School of Photography in Arles and the University of Lausanne. 
 
Specialist amateur photograph of the late nineteenth century, to which he devoted his thesis, he has published Fautographie, a short history of the photographic error ( 2003). He has directed and co-directed catalogs of different exibitions : Memory camps, Photographs of concentration camps and Nazi extermination, 1933-1999 (2001), The Third Eye and Photography and the Occult (2004), where he was also commissioner.
 

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