Contact
Email: cameron.foote@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
Biography
Cameron Foote is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford. Until September 2026 he was Curator at Whitechapel Gallery in London, where he organised and contributed to more than 20 exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, having started as Assistant Curator in 2016. His projects have spanned site-responsive commissions, monographic survey shows and research-led archival displays. He is interested in inclusive and collaborative approaches to exhibition making.
Highlights from Cameron's time at Whitechapel include the exhibitions: ‘Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations’ (2026), ‘Candice Lin: g/hosti’ (2025), ‘Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker’ (2025), ‘Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free!’ (2024), ‘Andrew Pierre Hart: Bio-Data Flows’ (2024), ‘Nicole Eisenman: What Happened’ (2023), ‘Delaine Le Bas: The House of Le Bas’ (2023), ‘Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon’ (2021), ‘Yoko Ono: MEND PIECE for London’ (2021), ‘Phantoms of Surrealism’ (2021), ‘Kai Althoff goes with Bernard Leach’ (2020), ‘Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium’ (2020), ‘Queer Spaces: London, 1980s – Today’ (2019), ‘Ulla von Brandenburg: Sweet Feast’ (2019), ‘The London Open’ (2018), ‘Thomas Ruff: Photographs’ (2017), ‘Eduardo Paolozzi’ (2017) and ‘Alicja Kwade: Medium Median’ (2016).
He has edited and written for numerous exhibition catalogues and books. He has contributed to Whitechapel Gallery’s MA programmes in collaboration with London Metropolitan and London South Bank Universities, and to New Curators, a curatorial training programme aimed at broadening access to careers in the visual arts.
In 2022, Cameron was seconded to Art on the Underground, where he organised public commissions with artists including Larry Achiampong, Monster Chetwynd and Joy Labinjo. Before Whitechapel, he was part of the curatorial team at Tate St Ives, contributing to programming for its newly expanded building.
He started his career at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York from 2013 to 2015, where he developed research for a retrospective exhibition with artist, activist and musician Yoko Ono.
