Biography

Charlie Grosso, a Chinese American woman with a male Italian name and born in Taipei, Taiwan, is a visual artist working in New York and Los Angeles. Her work is primarily photography based while experimenting with new mediums such as installation and video.

Influenced by Sebastiao Salgado, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Sylvia Plath,  Grosso's work starts from the personal and moves beyond to find the unifying factors between cultures. Her work revolves around the themes of  home, food, sex and people's stories. She is fascinated by the endurance of these common themes across boundaries while examining their continual shifts in our contemporary society. 

She graduated with a BA in Theater Design from University of Southern California and studied photography with many well-known commercial photographers, including Jay Maisel, Bobbi Lane and Jim McHugh. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, London, Havana and Paris. She has been nominated for several awards including Hasselblad Masters and IPA and won the Public Choice Awards for Documentary Photography for Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Px3) in 2008. Grosso recently completed an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently preparing for a solo exhibit in New York and Los Angeles while still traveling for Wok the Dog.