Andrew Bolton, OBE

Markopoulos Award Winner 2024

CURATOR IN CHARGE, THE COSTUME INSTITUTE AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Mr. Bolton joined The Costume Institute in 2002 as Associate Curator, and was named Curator in 2006. In January 2016 he became Curator in Charge upon the retirement of his predecessor, Harold Koda. Mr. Bolton has curated some of The Met’s most visited exhibitions, including Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), China: Through the Looking Glass (2015), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), and In America: A Lexicon of Fashion and An Anthology of Fashion (2021 and 2022) as well as the Museum’s most attended show Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), attracting more than 1.65 million visitors to The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. His recent exhibitions include Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty (2023) and Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion (2024).

Prior to joining The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mr. Bolton worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for nine years, as Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Fashion, and prior to that as Curatorial Assistant in the Far Eastern Department. During this period, he also curated exhibitions at the London College of Fashion. Additionally, he has authored and co-authored more than 20 books, and lectures and contributes scholarly articles to various publications.

Andrew Bolton, OBE Markopoulos Award Winner 2024

Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art/
Pari Dukovic/Trunk Archive

Mr. Bolton has received numerous awards, including the Fashion Group International Superstar Award in 2023 and Oracle Award in 2016; the Vilcek Prize in Fashion in 2015; the Best Monographic Exhibition from the Association of Art Museum Curators for Alexander McQueen in 2011; and the Richard Martin Award for Excellence from The Costume Society of America for American Woman in 2010 and also for
Poiret (with Harold Koda) in 2007. In June 2023, he became an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE).

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