Zorian Clayton is Curator of Prints at the Victoria & Albert Museum, specialising in 19th and 20th century printmakers, posters, and paper ephemera, with a focus on the fin de siècle and interwar period. He co-curated the display ‘Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture’ (2015) and was curatorial advisor for ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ (2022).
In January 2022, he received an Art Fund New Collecting Award to purchase the work of trans and non-binary artists for the V&A collection. He has been the co-chair of the V&A LGBTQ+ Working Group for the past eight years, programming numerous special events and research projects on queer art history.
Publications include contributions to ‘The Poster: A Visual History’ (Thames & Hudson, 2020) and ‘Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism’ (Routledge, 2020). Outside the museum, Zorian co-curated ‘When Walls Talk’, a poster exhibition in Brussels for The House of European History (2022) producing an accompanying catalogue, and since 2016 is a programmer of the Flare Festival at the British Film Institute.
