Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Andrew Bolton joined The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan  Museum of Art in 2002, as Associate Curator, was named Curator in  2006, and become Curator in Charge in January 2016 upon the retirement of his predecessor, Harold Koda. Mr. Bolton was named the  Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute in March 2018,  when the position was endowed. Mr. Bolton worked alongside Mr. Koda on exhibitions including  Dangerous Liaisons (2004), Chanel (2005), Poiret (2007), and  Schiaparelli and Prada (2012). In addition, he has curated AngloMania  (2006), Superheroes (2008), American Woman (2010), Alexander  McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), Punk (2013), China: Through the  Looking Glass (2015), Manus x Machina (2016), Rei Kawakubo /Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between (2017), Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019),  and About Time: Fashion and Duration (2020). Heavenly Bodies attracted more than 1.65 million visitors to The Met  Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters, making it The Met’s most visited exhibition. Previous exhibitions Bolton curated are also among The  Met’s most attended, including China, which had 815,992 visitors; Manus x Machina, with 752,995 visitors; and Alexander McQueen with 661,509  visitors. Bolton has authored and co-authored more than 17 books. He lectures and contributes scholarly articles to various publications. Prior to joining the Metropolitan, 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. Born in Great Britain, Mr. Bolton earned a B.A. in social anthropology and an M.A. in Non-Western Art from the University of East Anglia. He became a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts in London in 2007 and received an Honorary Fellowship in 2016. In 2017, he received an Honorary  Fellowship from the Royal College of Art. Mr. Bolton has received several awards, including the Fashion Group International 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. Brought to you by the British Consulate General, New York. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram.