Biography
Charles Guice Contemporary features modern and contemporary art, film/video, and new media by nationally and internationally recognized visual artists. Recognized for developing new talent as well as for advancing more established artists, Charles Guice Contemporary has been instrumental in the careers of several of today’s leading contemporary artists, including Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems.
The gallery has placed works in many prominent public collections throughout the United States and abroad, including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The International Center of Photography, and The Williams College Museum of Art. Charles Guice has curated a number of exhibitions throughout the U.S., including We’re All in This Together, If It Ain’t Broke, Four Women and American Icons, and was Managing Director and co-curator for Photo Miami in 2009.
Guice has served on the Boards of Trustees for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco and Oakland, and The Museum of the African Diaspora, and was also a founding member of the nominating committee for the Aperture West Book Prize.
He has been a frequent portfolio reviewer at En Foco (New York), Review Santa Fe, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, and FotoFest (Houston), and has been selected as a curator for Discoveries of the Meeting Place at FotoFest 2012.
