Charlie Tatum

Charlie Tatum is a writer and arts worker based in New Orleans, LA. He received a B.A. in Art History from New York University in 2011. He currently works as Editorial and Communications Manager at Pelican Bomb, commissioning and publishing pieces for the organization’s online contemporary arts publication. In addition to contributing regularly to Pelican Bomb's Art Review, he has written essays and interviews for Hyperallergic, Temporary Art Review, and BurnAway, among other places. He has previously held positions with Prospect New Orleans, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Lombard Freid Gallery, and various artist studios. From 2012 to 2014, he co-edited HEJ: a print-curatorial project, an interdisciplinary arts publication, with Dana Kopel. His research interests center around ideas of otherness, sexuality, media, and the American South.