Charlotte Dumas

Charlotte Dumas was born in 1977 in Vlaardingen in the Netherlands. She lives and work in Amsterdam where she attended the Rietveld Akademie (1996-2000), before being an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie for the Visual Arts (2001-2002).

For more than fifteen years, Charlotte Dumas has dedicated her work to animals — mainly horses and dogs, but also wolves and tigers. Nevertheless, she is not a wildlife photographer — or pet life, for that matter. Ever since her series on September-11 dogs, created in 2011, she is studying, the way a documentary photographer would, the particular relationship bonding man to animal, as a companion and also as a service animal, exemplified by rescue dogs.

Her work has been presented in numerous books and exhibited in several international institutions, such as Musée Kunstverein, Heilbronn (Germany, 2018), Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia (USA, 2018), Galerie Andriesse Eyck, Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2017), Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pont de Tiburg (Netherlands, 2015), Photographers’ Gallery, London (Great Britain, 2015), Gallery 916, Tokyo (Japan, 2016, 2014), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (USA, 2012), FO.KU.S. Innsbruck (Austria, 2010), Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2009).