Margot Norton
Margot Norton is Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, New York. She is currently working on the 2021 edition of the New Museum Triennial, titled “Soft Water Hard Stone,” co-curated 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.