Margot Norton

New Museum Triennial 2021, New York
Curator

Margot Norton is a curator at the New Museum, New York. In her role at the New Museum, she curated the 2021 edition of the New Museum Triennial, titled “Soft Water Hard Stone,” together with Jamillah James. Norton joined the New Museum in 2011 and has recently curated and co-curated exhibitions with Carmen Argote, Diedrick Brackens, Pia Camil, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Goshka Macuga, Nathaniel Mellors, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, and Kaari Upson; and group exhibitions This End the Sun, The Keeper, and Here and Elsewhere. She also curated the Eighth Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland (2017), and the Georgian Pavillion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E.. She has contributed to and edited numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.

Margot Norton conducted an online research trip in 2020 in her role as curator of the New Museum Triennial in 2021.

Margot Norton. Photo: Courtesy of the curator