Biography
Charlie White
Effective period / Period of releases: 2013
American photographer, filmmaker and academic. Born July 21, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.White's work has been exhibited internationally since 1999.
In 2004, White made the music video for Interpol’s "Evil".
In 2010, White made the music video for Interpol’s "Lights".
In 2012's Music for Sleeping Children, White collaborated with musician Boom Bip for an experimental project comprised of an album of songs replete with their own music videos directed by White.
White received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1994. He moved to LA in 1996, and received his MFA in 1998 from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
From 2003-2016, White held the position of professor at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design. He was the Director of their Master of Fine Arts program from 2007-2011.
Since mid-2016, White has held the position of professor and Head of School at the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
White’s work has been discussed and reviewed in periodicals and journals such as The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, Wired, Lacanian ink, and EXIT Image and Culture. In addition, his works have been included in two Thames and Hudson surveys, The Photograph As Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton, and The Body in Contemporary Art, by Sally O’Reilly, amongst other surveys on contemporary photography and art.
In addition to his studio practice, White has written about contemporary topics related to photography and popular representation, and he has produced numerous public and non-institutional projects, including the founding and editorship of “The Enemy,” a critical and cultural journal featuring essays and projects by artists, academics and activists.
White’s monographs include Such Appetite, Little Brown Mushroom, 2013, and American Minor, JPR | Ringier, 2009.