Born in 1961, lives and works in New York (US) |
Education
1994 | Yale University School of Art, M.F.A. Photography (US) |
1988 | Hunter College, CUNY M.A. TESOL/Applied Linguistics (US) |
1984 | Barnard College, Columbia University, New-York B.A. Anthropology (US) |
Solo exhibitions
2024 | Off The Cuff, Bureau, New York (US) |
Off the hook, Klemm’s, Berlin (DE) | |
2022 | the bite in the ribbon, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) |
2020 | A METHOD OF A CLOAK, Square is the Chatter, Galerie Markus Lüttgen, Düsseldorf (DE) |
A METHOD OF A CLOAK, Klemm’s, Berlin (DE) | |
2019 | A Long Dress, Bureau, New-York (US) |
2018 | Naked Eye Nature Morte, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) |
2016 | The Following Information, Bureau, New-York (US) |
2015 | Stanzas, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) |
2014 | The Paper Nautilus, Bureau, New-York (US) |
Harpoon the Monster: Blackboards, Blanks and Viewmasters, with Francis Baudevin, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich (DE) | |
2013 | The Public Imagination, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) |
The Public Imagination, LuttgenMeijer, Berlin (DE) | |
Erica Baum, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany (DE) | |
Erica Baum: Blanks/Naked Eye Anthology, Melas Papadapoulos, Athens (GR) | |
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa (US) | |
2012 | Naked Eye Anthology, Bureau, New-York (US) |
Naked Eye, Marc Jancou, Geneva (CH) | |
2011 | The Public Imagination, Circuit, Lausanne (CH) |
Shuffled Glances, Bureau, New York (US) | |
2009 | The Naked Eye, Dispatch Bureau, New-York (US) |
Reference, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin (DE) | |
2008 | Word Each to Cling I, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (US) |
2004 | Them, D’Amelio Terras, New-York (US) |
2003 | Play, D’Amelio Terras, New-York (US) |
Directions, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, New-York (US) | |
2000 | Recent Work, D’Amelio Terras, New-York (US) |
1997 | New Photographs, Clementine Gallery, New-York (US) |
1996 | Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College (US) |
1995 | University of California, Berkeley Extension, San Francisco (US) |
Group exhibitions
2024 | New Directions: Recent Acquisitions, The George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US) |
Condo London, Kate MacGarry, London (UK) | |
FOLDS, Project: ARTspace, New York (US) | |
2023 | Pictures & after, MAMCO, Geneva (CH) |
2022 | The Gorgeous Nothings, Bartha Contemporary, London (UK) |
Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (US) | |
Power Flower, Le 109 - Biennale de Nice (FR) | |
To Have Lost Something Unknown, Something Unguessable, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo (NO) | |
#ProtectChinatown Art and History, City Group 104B Forsyth Street, New York (US) | |
2021 | On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (US) |
True Pictures?, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Braunschweig (DE) | |
Fire demands its Fuel, curated by KM Temporaer, An der Stadtmauer 6, Mönchengladbach (DE) | |
RABBIT HOLE, F, Houston, TX (US) | |
Crocodile Cradle, PEER Project, London (UK) | |
2020 | Pictures, Revisited, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US) |
Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY (US) | |
2019 | Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US) |
Photographie et documents, 1983-2018: Une histoire de la collection du Fonds régional d’art contemporain #2, Frac Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille (FR) | |
Condo New York, Bureau hosting (STANDARD OSLO), New York (US) | |
The Second Body, organized by Sam Contis, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York (US) | |
Cut - Copy - Paste, o v project, Brussels (BE) | |
What is an edition, anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (US) | |
2018 | Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works, The New York Public Library, New-York (US) |
The Swindle: Art Between Seeing and Believing, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New-York (US) | |
Hours and Places, Bureau Gallery, New-York (US) | |
mark, Team Gallery, New-York (US) | |
The Remains of Cinema, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (DE) | |
Lever le voile, works from FRAC Ile de France collection, Le Carré, Vincennes (FR) | |
Condo London, Southard Reid hosting Bureau and Park View, London (UK) | |
2017 | A une heure de la civilisation, Crèvecœur, Marseille (FR) |
Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT) | |
L’art dans tous ses états – chap.8, frac île-de-france, les Réservoirs, Limay (FR) | |
Art Basel, Features, with Bureau, Basel (CH) | |
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New-York (US) | |
AAa:Quien, BUREAU, New-York (US) | |
Tuer la marionnette, curated by Clement Delepine, CACBM, Paris (FR) | |
Take Note, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah (US) | |
Until It Makes Senses, Erica Baum & Ajit Chauhan, SVIT, Prague (CZ) | |
Strange Days, le Plateau, FRAC Ile de France, Paris (FR) | |
Erica Baum, Francis Baudevin, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Blair Thurman, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg (DE) | |
2016 | Her Crowd: New Art by Women from Our Neighbors’ Private Collections, Bruce Museum, Greenwich (US) |
Tongue, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus (US) | |
Two Years of Looking, New Art Projects, London (UK) | |
Thought Patterns, Deborah Ronnen, Rochester (US) | |
Two Years of Looking, New Art Projects, London (UK) | |
For the Love of Things: Still Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (US) | |
2015 | TWO STEPS FORWARD, A Group Exhibition to Benefit Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company , 47 Canal, New-York (US) |
Révélations, Les Arcades, Issy les Moulineaux, FRAC Île de France (FR) | |
Photo Poetics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New-York (US) | |
Pangrammar, P!, New-York (US) | |
Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York (US) | |
Jeux de langage, La Vitrine, Le Plateau / FRAC Ile de France, Paris (FR) | |
Body/Image, Susan Inglett gallery, New-York (US) | |
True Players, W139, Amsterdam (NL) | |
Reloaded - Konkrete Tendenzen heute, Weserburg, Bremen (DE) | |
Shoes and Purses, Rawson Projects, New-York (US) | |
After Dark, works from FRAC Île de France Collection, MAMCO, Geneva (CH) | |
Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, University Galleries, FAU, Boca Raton (US) | |
2014 | Infinite Tuning, Murray Guy, New-York (US) |
Seymour, CEAAC, Strasbourg (FR) | |
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University (US) | |
Langue des oiseaux et coq à l’âne. Autour de Raymond Hains, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes (FR) | |
Lists, Bury Art Gallery, Lancashire (UK) | |
2013 | Anthology, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK) |
Printing Out the Internet, cur. Kenneth Goldsmith, Labor, Mexico City, Mexico (MX) | |
Step Right In, Visual Arts Center, Austin (US) | |
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art (Extended), The Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing (US) | |
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art (Extended), Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (CA) | |
Jew York, Untitled Gallery and Zach Feuer Gallery, New-York (US) | |
Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life since 1969, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York (US) | |
October 18, 1977, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New-York (US) | |
Chick Lit: Revised Summer Reading, Tracy Williams Ltd., New-York (US) | |
Bass! How Low Can You Go?, Leila Heller Gallery, New-York (US) | |
Bureau at Independent, New-York (US) | |
The Feverish Library Cont’d, Capitan Petzel, Berlin (DE) | |
Speaking and Thinking, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (SE) | |
DOWNTOWN: A View of the Lower East Side, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai (CN) | |
30th Bienal de São Paulo Touring Program, Sesc São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo (BR) | |
2012 | Bureau at NADA, Miami (US) |
Lost & Found: Anonymous Photography in Reflection, Ambach & Rice Gallery Los Angeles (US) | |
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil (BR) | |
Postscript, Denver MCA, Denver (US) | |
The Feverish Library, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New-York (US) | |
Coquilles Méchaniques, FRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR) | |
B-Out, curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New-York (US) | |
Journal d’une chambre, Cur. Jean-Max Colard, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) | |
Slow Numbers, Showroom 170, New-York (US) | |
Erica Baum and Sara MacKillop, Bischoff/Weiss, London (UK) | |
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New-York (US) | |
(im)possibilities, Visual Art Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin (US) | |
2011 | Library Science, Artspace, New Haven (US) |
Summer Salt, The Proposition, New-York (US) | |
Pictures Extra and Others, Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens (GR) | |
2010 | ITEM, curated by Mamie Tinkler, Mitchell Innes & Nash, New-York (US) |
Readers Delight, McKenzie Gallery, New-York (US) | |
Woodman, woodman, spare that tree’, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin (DE) | |
Freischuss, Kleine Humboldt Galerie Humbolt University, Berlin (DE) | |
2009 | I know nothing of the weather when I know it is either raining or not raining. Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, Feldman Gallery Portland, Oregon (US) |
We’ll Know Where When We Get There, Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprime, Chatou (FR) | |
2008 | Useful Gestures, Useless Gestures, Dipatch Bureau, New-York (US) |
Subject Index, Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmo (SE) | |
A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden New Jersey (US) | |
2006 | Re-Make/Re-Model, D’Amelio Terras, New-York (US) |
2002 | Gravity Over Time, curated by John Pilson, 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy (IT) |
2000 | Summer group show, D’Amelio Terras, New-York (US) |
1999 | Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New-York (US) |
Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson, New-York (US) | |
Neither / Nor, Grand Arts, Kansas City (US) | |
1998 | Gel, D’Amelio Terras, New-York (US) |
Hotspots, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany Inventory, White Columns, New-York (US) | |
Sourpuss, Lubelski Gallery, New-York (US) |
Works in Institutional Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
Albright-Knox Art Gallery | |
Aïshti Foundation | |
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre | |
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) | |
FRAC Île-de-France | |
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | |
Hood Museum of Art | |
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain - MAMCO, Geneva | |
Norton Museum of Art | |
The Whitney Museum of American Art | |
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
The Yale Art Gallery | |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) | |
University of Guelph McClelland & Stewart Art Gallery |
Selected publications
2022 | The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems, ed. by Al Filreis and Anna Strong Safford, University of Pennsylvania Press |
2021 | Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, Timglaset Editions, Malmö |
Catalogue Raisonné, Frac Île‐de‐France Collection, Paris | |
2018 | Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink, Exhibition Catalog, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna |
2017 | The ARCADES: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, edited by Jens Hoffman, contributions by Caroline A. Jones, Vito Manolo Roma, and Kenneth Goldsmith, Exhibition Catalog, The Jewish Museum, New York |
2016 | Erica Baum, Dog Ear, second printing, Ugly Duckling Presse |
2015 | Erica Baum, ‘Colors / Cadmium Red,’ Cabinet Magazine, Issue 58 ‘Theft,’ Summer |
Erica Baum, The Naked Eye, Crèvecœur/œ Paris & Bureau New York | |
Alterations: Built, Blended, Processed, Exhibition Catalog, Florida Atlantic University ed. by Victoria Bean & Chris McCabe, The New Concrete, Hayward Publishing, London | |
2013 | Idra Novey, Clarice: The Visitor, artworks by Erica Baum, University of Chicago Press |
2012 | Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, Exhibition Catalogue |
Francis Baudevin/Erica Baum, Regency Art Press | |
Erica Baum, Melody Indicator, Triple Canopy | |
2011 | Dispatch 2007-2011, Dispatch New York |
Erica Baum, Sightings, One Star Presse | |
Erica Baum, Dog Ear, with Kenneth Goldsmith and Béatrice Gross, Ugly Duckling Presse | |
2009 | Erica Baum, Naked Eye, with Kenneth Goldsmith, Free Association |
2008 | Erica Baum, Roll Playing, Kelly Writers House, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Exhibition Catalog |
Selected press
2019 | Rachel Churner, ‘Erica Baum,’ Artforum, April, p. 193 |
Megan N. Liberty, ‘How Photographer Erica Baum Peers Below the Surface of the Faded Page,’ Frieze, February 18 | |
Martha Schwendener, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” New York Times, January 30 | |
Alina Cohen, ‘13 Artists Who Highlight the Power of Words,’ Artsy, January 5 | |
2018 | John Cappetta, ‘Hours and Places,’ The Brooklyn Rail, May 1 |
Jerry Saltz, ‘Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read,’ New York Magazine, April 29 | |
O.C. Yerebakan, ‘Mark, Team Gallery’, Art Observed, April 21 | |
‘Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna,’ cura.magazine, October 24 | |
Max L. Feldman, ‘Critic’s Pick: Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink,’ Artforum.com, October 23 | |
Kaitlyn A. Kramer, ‘Critic’s Pick: Erica Baum and Libby Rothfeld,’ Artforum.com, January 23 | |
Chris Wiley, ‘AAa:Quien, Goings on About Town,’ The New Yorker, January 20 | |
2016 | Calderon, Jessica, ‘Staff Picks: Fever Dreams, Tragic Spells, and In-Betweens,’ The Paris Review, July 22 |
Osman Yerebakan, ‘Interview With Erica Baum,’ Baxter St. Camera Club Blog, July 18 | |
O.C. Yerebakan, ‘Mark, Team Gallery’, Art Observed, April 21 | |
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, ‘The Naked Eye: A Conversation With Erica Baum,’ The Great Leap | |
Sideways, April 1 | |
Ashley McNelis, ‘An Artist Dissects Found Bits of Language,’ Hyperallergic, March 15 2016 | |
‘Erica Baum,’ The New Yorker, March 110 | |
Blake Gopnik, ‘At Bureau, Erica Baum’s Blackboards Keep Teaching Us,’ Artnet, March 3 | |
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Point First, Shoot Later,’ The Nation, January 21 | |
‘Photo-Poetics: An Anthology,’ The New Yorker, January 4 | |
2015 | Martha Schwendener, ‘Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last,’ The New York Times, December 31 |
Will Heinrich, ‘Photo-Poetics: An Anthology at the Guggenheim,’ Aperture, December 4 | |
Holland Cotter, ‘Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye,’ The New York Times, December 3 | |
Interview by Andrea Blanch, ‘ERICA BAUM straight shooter,’ Musée Magazine, November | |
Interview by Jesse Chun, ‘Interview with Erica Baum,’ Der Greif, November 20 | |
‘Erica Baum: Study,’ Quick Magazine #11, March | |
Abraham Adams, ‘Critic’s Pick: Erica Baum and Barb Choit,’ Artforum.com, March 13 | |
2014 | Nat Trotman, ‘Erica Baum: Wordplay’, Aperture, Issue 217, Winter, pp. 73 - 79 |
‘Exhibitions - The Lookout: Erica Baum’, Art in America, October | |
Natalie Musteata, ‘Erica Baum’, Artforum.com, September 12 | |
Kathleen Madden, ‘Random Harvest,’ Osmos, Winter | |
Interview by Steel Stillman, ‘Erica Baum in the Studio’, Art in America, October | |
2013 | Gary Barwin, ‘Cover Versions: Reading outside-in in Erica Baum’s study,’ Jacket2.org, May |
Yukiko Oyama, ‘Erica Baum’, +81, pp. 42-9, Spring | |
‘Au Contraire: All poetry is poems’, Flaunt Magazine, pp.22-5, March | |
Alexis Jakubowicz, ‘Erica Baum’, Frieze d/e, February | |
2012 | Vince Aletti, ‘Erica Baum’, The New Yorker, October |
Kim Rosenfield, ‘Erica Baum’, BOMB Magazine, December | |
2010 | Cecilia Alemani, ‘Erica Baum: Dog Ear Poems’, Mousse, 22 |
2009 | Caroline Busta, ‘Erica Baum at Dispatch’, Artforum |
Julian Kreimer, ‘Erica Baum,’ Art in America, June | |
Angela Ashman, ‘Such a Tease’, Village Voice, March | |
Lauren O’Neill Butler, ‘Erica Baum’, Artforum.com, Critic’s pick | |
2005 | Stephen Robert Frankel, ‘Erica Baum at D’Amelio Terras’, Jan/Feb |
2003 | Johanna Burton, ‘Erica Baum: Play,’ Time Out New York, September 18-25 |
2000 | Frances Richard, ‘Erica Baum’, Artforum, October |
1998 | Grady T. Turner, ‘Erica Baum at Clementine’, Art in America, February |