Charlotte McGowan-Griffin

Born in London in 1975, Charlotte studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, and filmmaking at AFECT. She has received various international grants and scholarships for her installations and paper-based works, including a UNESCO-Aschberg scholarship in 2003 and the Pollock-Krasner Award in 2011.


In 2012 she published her monograph Cutting In, Cutting Out. She has taken part in group shows at museum venues such as Hamburger Kunsthalle, Museum Bellerive (Zurich), Armory Center (Pasadena), Horst-Janssen Museum (Oldenburg), Museum Modernen Kunst (Kärnten) and Museum Kunst der Westküste (Alkersum) as well as solo and duo projectsin Berlin, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Beijing.


The tradition of the paper-cut is being given a whole new dimension in the work of Charlotte McGowan-Griffin. With the three-dimensional aspect, which the artist is transfering to exceptional large spaces, she is creating overwhelming effects.


By substracting the material, a tension in space is achieved. It feels like a metamorphosis, which is being given an almost meditative aspect, not only through the whiteness and purity of the paper.

Born in London in 1975, Charlotte studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, and filmmaking at AFECT.

She has received various international grants and scholarships for her installations and paper-based works, including a UNESCO-Aschberg scholarship in 2003 and the Pollock-Krasner Award in 2011.

In 2012 she published her monograph Cutting In, Cutting Out.

She has taken part in group shows at museum venues such as Hamburger Kunsthalle, Museum Bellerive (Zurich), Armory Center (Pasadena), Horst-Janssen Museum (Oldenburg), Museum Modernen Kunst (Kärnten) and Museum Kunst der Westküste (Alkersum) as well as solo and duo projectsin Berlin, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Beijing.

The tradition of the paper-cut is being given a whole new dimension in the work of Charlotte McGowan-Griffin. With the three-dimensional aspect, which the artist is transfering to exceptional large spaces, she is creating overwhelming effects.

By substracting the material, a tension in space is achieved. It feels like a metamorphosis, which is being given an almost meditative aspect, not only through the whiteness and purity of the paper.