Chloe Luterman is a photographic artist born and raised in New York City. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Photography and Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a double major in Art History.
Luterman's practice uses photography to investigate the medium itself—its histories, materiality, and capacity to produce meaning. Working across self portraiture, collaboration, and staged imagery, she examines how photographs construct femininity, produce desire, and shape relationships between subject and viewer. Conceptually informed by art historical research, feminist scholarship, and the history of photography, her work draws connections between historical image-making and contemporary visual culture.
Historical photographic processes are fundamental to her practice. She works with techniques including collodiochloride, cyanotype, platinum palladium, and gum bichromate, using process as a conceptual language. The slowness, repetition, and physical labor of these methods confront the accelerated production and consumption of contemporary media while emphasizing the photograph as a tactile object with its own history and presence. By placing nineteenth-century photographic processes in dialogue with contemporary subjects, Luterman explores how images accumulate meaning across time and how materiality can reshape experiences of spectatorship, intimacy, and desire.
Luterman's work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bronx Documentary Center, the Whitney Museum, and the U.S. Capitol Building. She is a YoungArts Winner in Photography and has received 26 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, including a National Gold Medal and two National Silver Medals. In 2026, she was selected to participate in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIX. She has worked with museums, galleries, and publications including the Whitney Museum, ICP, Penumbra Foundation, Printed Matter, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, and Musée Magazine.