Erica Baum
b. 1961, New York Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
| 1994 | Yale University School of Art, M.F.A. Photography, New Haven, CT |
| 1988 | Hunter College, CUNY M.A. TESOL/Applied Linguistics, New York, NY |
| 1984 | Barnard College, Columbia University, New York B.A. Anthropology, New York, NY |
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | the bite in the ribbon—a paper show, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY |
| 2024 | Off The Cuff, Bureau, New York, NY |
| Off the Hook, Klemm's, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2022 | the bite in the ribbon, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, France |
| 2020 | A METHOD OF A CLOAK, Square is the Chatter, Galerie Markus Lüttgen, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| A METHOD OF A CLOAK, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2019 | A Long Dress, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Naked Eye Nature Morte, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, France |
| 2017 | Until It Makes Sense, Erica Baum & Ajit Chauhan, SVIT, Prague, Czech Republic |
| AAa:Quien, Erica Baum & Libby Rothfeld, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2016 | The Following Information, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Stanzas, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, France |
| 2014 | The Paper Nautilus, Bureau, New York, NY |
| Harpoon the Monster: Blackboards, Blanks and Viewmasters (with Francis Baudevin), Galerie Mark | |
| Müller, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2013 | The Public Imagination, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany |
| The Public Imagination, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, France | |
| Erica Baum, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany | |
| Erica Baum: Blanks/Naked Eye Anthology, Melas Papadapoulos, Athens, Greece | |
| Solo Show, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA | |
| 2012 | Naked Eye Anthology, Bureau, New York, NY |
| Naked Eye, Marc Jancou, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2011 | The Public Imagination, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Shuffled Glances, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | The Naked Eye, Dispatch Bureau, New York, NY |
| Reference, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2008 | Word Each to Cling I, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2004 | Them, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Play, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY |
| Directions, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | Recent Work, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY |
| 1997 | New Photographs, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, TX |
| 1995 | University of California, Berkeley Extension, San Francisco, CA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2026 | Once More Encore: The First Year of Benny's Video Remixed, Kiang Malingue, New York, NY |
| From Stone to Image, Musée Alexis Forel, Morges, Switzerland | |
| Fragmented Circuits, Cannery Village Gallery, Newport Beach, CA | |
| Missing, Benny's Video, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2025 | Made in Düsseldorf #7: Perspectives. Photographs From the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf’s Art Collection, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Fifteen-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| Grasse matinée, l’art du temps libre, Le Centre d’Art des Collines de Grasse, Grasse, France | |
| Twelve Photographers, Kerry Schuss Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Erosion du Réel (En)quête de sens, Musée des Curiosités, Ville d'Avignon, France | |
| 2024 | Unfolding, Klemm's, Berlin, Germany |
| Halen 05, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin Germany | |
| New Directions: Recent Acquisitions, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY | |
| 2023 | Reimagining: New Perspectives, UBS Art Collection, New York, NY |
| L'école, Philadelphia Art Alliance, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Speedo International Unlimited, Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Pictures & After, MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2022 | The Gorgeous Nothings, Bartha Contemporary, London, United Kingdom |
| Power Flower, Biennale des Arts de Nice, Nice, France | |
| To Have Lost Something Unknown, Something Unguessable, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway | |
| Image Gardeners, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
| #ProtectChinatown Art and History, City Group 104B Forsyth Street, New York, NY | |
| 2021 | On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
| True Pictures?, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany | |
| Casa Nova (online exhibition), Crèvecœur, La Porta, Corsica, France | |
| Fire demands its Fuel, curated by KM Temporaer, An der Stadtmauer 6, Mönchengladbach, Germany | |
| Rabbit Hole, organized by Adam Marnie, F, Houston, TX | |
| Crocodile Cradle, organized by Simon Moretti, PEER, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2020 | Pictures, Revisited, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| 2019 | Face à face, frac île‑de‑france, Campus de Villetaneuse, France |
| Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| Photographie et documents, 1983-2018: Une histoire de la collection du Fonds régional d’art | |
| contemporain #2, Frac Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France | |
| Condo New York, Bureau hosting (STANDARD OSLO), New York, NY | |
| The Second Body, organized by Sam Contis, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Cut - Copy - Paste, o v project, Brussels, Belgium | |
| What is an edition, anyway?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2018 | Anna Atkins Refracted: Contemporary Works, The New York Public Library, New York, NY |
| The Swindle: Art Between Seeing and Believing, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY | |
| Lever le voile, frac île‑de‑france, Paris, France | |
| Types of Typewriting, Schreibmaschinentexte seit den 1950er Jahren, Galerie Oqbo, Berlin, Germany | |
| Hours and Places, Wojciech Bąkowski, Erica Baum, Constance DeJong, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| mark, Team Gallery, New York, NY | |
| The Remains of Cinema, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria | |
| Condo London, Southard Reid hosting Bureau (New York) and Park View (Los Angeles), London, United Kingdom | |
| 2017 | Satellite TV, organized by Anne Eastman, Tetsuo's Garage, Nikko, Japan |
| L’art dans tous ses états – chap.8, frac île‑de‑france, Les Réservoirs, Limay, France | |
| Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink, curated by Béatrice Gross, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria | |
| A une heure de la civilisation, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Marseille, France | |
| The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| Tuer la marionnette, curated by Clement Delepine, CACBM, Paris, France | |
| Elective Affinities: A Library, curated by Jocelyn Spaar and Sarah Watson, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Take Note, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA | |
| Strange Days, Le Plateau, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, France | |
| Erica Baum, Francis Baudevin, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Blair Thurman, Galerie | |
| Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria | |
| 2016 | Her Crowd: New Art by Women from Our Neighbors’ Private Collections, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT |
| Tongue, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH | |
| Two Years of Looking, New Art Projects, London, UK | |
| Thought Patterns, Deborah Ronnen, Rochester, NY | |
| For the Love of Things: Still Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY | |
| 2015 | Revelations, FRAC Île de France, Paris, France |
| Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | |
| Pangrammar, P!, New York, NY | |
| Jeux de langage, FRAC Île de France, Paris, France | |
| The Exhibition of a Film (Screening), Tate Modern, London, UK | |
| The Exhibition of a Film (Screening), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany | |
| True Players, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Body/Image, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Reloaded - Concrete Trends, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany | |
| For Troedsson Villa, Troedsson Villa, Nikko, Japan | |
| After Dark, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Erica Baum, Barb Choit, Rawson Projects, New York, NY | |
| Altarations: Built, Blended, Processed, University Galleries, FAU, Boca Raton, FL | |
| 2014 | PLATEFORME(S), Centre d’art contemporain d’Yverdon-les-Bains, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland |
| Lucid Gestures: An Exhibition of Barnard Alumnae Artists, Mccagg Gallery, Barnard College, New York, NY | |
| The Exhibition of a Film, Centre D’art Contemporan Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| The Built Environment: Lower East Side in Istanbul, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| Infinite Tuning, Murray Guy, New York, NY | |
| A Poem a Day, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium | |
| Seymour, CEEAC, Strasbourg, France | |
| Langue des oiseaux et coq à l’âne. Autour de Raymond Hains, Le Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France | |
| Lists, Bury Art Gallery, Lancashire, UK | |
| 2013 | AGORA 4th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece |
| Anthology, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK | |
| Printing Out the Internet cur. Kenneth Goldsmith, Labor, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Step Right In, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX | |
| Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art (Extended), The Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum,East Lansing, MI | |
| Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art (Extended), Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto | |
| Chick Lit: Revised Summer Reading, Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York, NY | |
| Desire, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| October 18, 1977, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc, New York, NY | |
| Jew York, Untitled Gallery and Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Everyday Epiphanies, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| Bass! How Low Can You Go?, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY | |
| The Feverish Library Cont'd, Capitan Petzel, Berlin, Germany | |
| Speaking and Thinking, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| DOWNTOWN: a view of the Lower East Side, James Cohan, Shanghai, China | |
| 30th Bienal de São Paulo Touring Program, Sesc São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| 2012 | The Imminence of Poetics, Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo |
| Lost & Found: Anonymous Photography in Reflection, Ambach & Rice Gallery Los Angeles, CA | |
| Postscript, Denver MCA, Denver, CO | |
| The Feverish Library, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York NY | |
| Coquilles Méchaniques, FRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France | |
| B-Out, curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Journal d’une chambre, Cur. Jean-Max Colard, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, France | |
| Slow Numbers, Showroom 170, New York, NY | |
| Erica Baum and Sara MacKillop, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK | |
| Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY | |
| (im)possibilities, Visual Art Center, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX | |
| 2011 | Library Science, Artspace, New Haven, CT |
| Summer Salt, The Proposition, New York, NY | |
| Pictures Extra and Others, Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens, Greece | |
| 2010 | ITEM, curated by Mamie Tinkler, Mitchell Innes & Nash, New York, NY |
| Readers Delight, McKenzie Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Luttgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany | |
| Freischuss, Kleine Humboldt Galerie Humbolt University, Berlin, Germany | |
| 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, OR |
| We’ll Know Where When We Get There, Centre National de l’Estampe et de l’Art Imprime, Chatou France | |
| 2008 | Useful Gestures, Useless Gestures, Dipatch Bureau, New York, NY |
| Subject Index, Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmo, Sweden | |
| A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ | |
| 2006 | Re-Make/Re-Model, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Gravity Over Time, cur. John Pilson, 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy |
| 2000 | Summer group show, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY |
| Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson, New York, NY | |
| Neither / Nor, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (catalogue) | |
| 1998 | Gel, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY |
| Hotspots, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
| Inventory, White Columns, New York, NY | |
| Sourpuss, Lubelski Gallery, New York, NY |
PUBLICATIONS & CONTRIBUTIONS
| 2024 | Novey, Idra. Soon and Wholly. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2024. |
| Zambreno, Kate. Heroines. 2nd ed. Semiotext(e), 2024. | |
| 2023 | Baum, Erica. FABRICATIONS, Paris: Three Star Books, 2023. |
| 2022 | Filreis, Al, and Anna Strong Safford, eds. The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. |
| 2021 | Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, Malmö: Timglaset Editions, 2021. |
| Catalogue Raisonné, Frac Île‐de‐France Collection, Paris | |
| 2018 | Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink. Vienna: Galerie Emanuel Layr, 2018. |
| 2017 | Hoffman, Jens, eds. The ARCADES: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin. New York: The Jewish Museum, 2017. |
| 2016 | Baum, Erica. Dog Ear. 2nd printing. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017. |
| 2015 | Baum, Erica. “Colors / Cadmium Red.” Cabinet Magazine, Summer 2015. |
| Baum, Erica. The Naked Eye. Crèvecœur/œ Paris & Bureau New York, 2015. | |
| Blessing, Jennifer and Susan Thompson, eds. Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2015. | |
| Alterations: Built, Blended, Processed. Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University, 2015. | |
| Bean, Victoria, and Chris McCabe, eds. The New Concrete. London: Hayward Publishing, 2012 | |
| 2013 | Idra Novey. Clarice: The Visitor. University of Chicago Press, 2013. |
| 2012 | Catálogo: 30ª Bienal. São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2012. |
| Baum, Erica. Melody Indicator. Triple Canopy, 2012. | |
| Francis Baudevin/Erica Baum, Regency Art Press, 2012. | |
| 2011 | Dispatch 2007-2011, Dispatch New York |
| Baum, Erica.Sightings, One Star Presse, 2012. | |
| Baum, Erica, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Béatrice Gross. Dog Ear. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011. | |
| 2009 | Erica Baum, Naked Eye, with Kenneth Goldsmith, Free Association |
| 2008 | Baum, Erica, and Kelly Writers House. Roll Playing. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2008. |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2026 | Masiello, Monica. “On Erica Baum’s Dog Ear." Annulet, February 2026. |
| 2025 | Schermerhorn, Jacob. “The poetry of word and image." Rochester Beacon, December 12, 2025. |
| Heinrich, Will. “Erica Baum." IMPULSE, November 2025. | |
| 2024 | Belci, Theo. “Erica Baum." Artforum.com, March 26, 2024. |
| Karas, Makenna. “Erica Baum - Off The Hook." Musée Magazine, March 20, 2024. | |
| 2022 | “Erica Baum the bite in the ribbon Crèvecœur / Paris." Flash Art, April 22, 2022. |
| 2021 | White, Katie. “Erica Baum’s Photographic Poetry of Spontaneity and Collapse." Sothebys.com, April 27, 2021. |
| 2020 | Parameswaran, Rajesh. “Erica Baum." BOMB Magazine, September 16, 2020. |
| Herbert, Martin. “Erica Baum’s A Method of a Cloak." Art-agenda, June 16, 2020. | |
| 2019 | Churner, Rachel. “Erica Baum." Artforum, April 2019. |
| Liberty, Megan N. “How Photographer Erica Baum Peers Below the Surface of the Faded Page.” Frieze, February 18, 2019. | |
| Schwendener, Martha. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week." The New York Times, January 30, 2019. | |
| Cohen, Alina. “13 Artists Who Highlight the Power of Words.” Artsy, January 5, 2019. | |
| 2018 | “Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna.” cura.magazine, October 24, 2018. |
| Feldman, Max L. “Critic’s Pick: Threads Left Dangling, Veiled in Ink.” Artforum.com, October 23, 2018. | |
| Cappetta, John. “Hours and Places." The Brooklyn Rail, May 1, 2018. | |
| Saltz, Jerry. “Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.” New York Magazine, April 29, 2018. | |
| Yerebakan, O.C. “Mark, Team Gallery.” Art Observed, April 21, 2018. | |
| 2017 | Kramer, Kaitlyn A. “Critic’s Pick: Erica Baum and Libby Rothfeld.” Artforum.com, January 23, 2017. |
| Wiley, Chris. “AAa:Quien, Goings on About Town.” The New Yorker, January 20, 2017. | |
| 2016 | Calderon, Jessica. “Staff Picks: Fever Dreams, Tragic Spells, and In-Betweens.” The Paris Review, July 22, 2016. |
| Yerebakan, Osman. “Interview With Erica Baum.” Baxter St. Camera Club Blog, July 18, 2016. | |
| Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley. “The Naked Eye: A Conversation With Erica Baum.” The Great Leap Sideways, April 1, 2016. | |
| McNelis, Ashley. “An Artist Dissects Found Bits of Language.” Hyperallergic, March 15 2016. | |
| “Erica Baum.” The New Yorker, March 11, 2016. | |
| Gopnik, Blake. “At Bureau, Erica Baum’s Blackboards Keep Teaching Us.” Artnet, March 3, 2016. | |
| Schwabsky, Barry. “Point First, Shoot Later.” The Nation, January 21, 2016. | |
| “Photo-Poetics: An Anthology.” The New Yorker, January 4, 2016. | |
| 2015 | Schwendener, Martha. “Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last.” The New York Times, December 31, 2015. |
| Heinrich, Will. “Photo-Poetics: An Anthology at the Guggenheim.” Aperture, December 4, 2015. | |
| Cotter, Holland. “Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye.” The New York Times, December 3, 2015. | |
| Baum, Erica. “Interview with Erica Baum.” By Jesse Chun. Der Greif, November 20, 2015. | |
| Baum, Erica. “ERICA BAUM: straight shooter.” By Andrea Blanch. Musée Magazine, November 2015. | |
| Adams, Abraham. “Critic's Pick: Erica Baum and Barb Choit.” Artforum.com, March 13, 2015 | |
| “Erica Baum: Study.”Quick Magazine March 2015. | |
| 2014 | “Exhibitions - The Lookout: Erica Baum.” Art in America, October 2014. |
| Musteata, Natalie “Erica Baum.” Artforum.com, September 12, 2014. | |
| Aletti, Vince. “Erica Baum.” The New Yorker, September 8, 2014. | |
| Madden, Kathleen. “Random Harvest.” OSMOS, 2014. | |
| Trotman, Nat. “Erica Baum: Wordplay.” Aperture, 2014. | |
| 2013 | Barwin, Gary. “Cover Versions: Reading outside-in in Erica Baum's study.” Jacket2.org, May 2013. |
| Oyama, Yukiko. “Erica Baum.” +81, Spring 2013. | |
| Jakubowicz, Alexis. “Erica Baum.” Frieze d/e, February 2013. | |
| “Au Contraire: All poetry is poems.” Flaunt Magazine, 2013. | |
| 2012 | Rosenfield, Kim. “Erica Baum.” BOMB Magazine, December 2012. |
| Aletti, Vince. “Erica Baum.” The New Yorker, October 2012. | |
| 2010 | Alemani, Cecilia. “Erica Baum: Dog Ear Poems.” Mousse, 2010. |
| 2009 | Ashman, Angela. “Such a Tease.” The Village Voice, March 2009. |
| Busta, Caroline. “Erica Baum at Dispatch.” Artforum, 2009. | |
| Butler, Lauren O’Neill. “Erica Baum.” Artforum.com, 2009. | |
| 2005 | Frankel, Stephen Robert. Erica Baum at D’Amelio Terras. Art on Paper January/February, 2005. |
| 2003 | Johanna Burton, “Erica Baum: Play.” Time Out New York, September 2003. |
| 2000 | Richard, Frances. “Erica Baum.” Artforum, October 2000. |
| 1998 | Turner, Grady T. “Erica Baum at Clementine.” Art in America, February 1998. |
COLLECTIONS Aïshti Foundation Buffalo AKG Art Museum Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) Collection Lambert Dallas Museum of Art Kunstpalast Düsseldorf FRAC Ile de France FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Frac Sud George Eastman Museum Hood Museum of Art MAMCO Genève The Metropolitan Museum of Art MIT List Visual Arts Center The Museum of Modern Art, New York National Museum of Women in the Arts The New York Public Library Norton Museum of Art Raclin Murphy Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The SCAD Museum of Art The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum University of Guelph McClelland & Stewart Art Gallery Whitney Museum of American Art Yale University Art Gallery