Myka Baum // Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2015 - 2017 MA Print (merit) | Royal College of Art

2007 - 2008 PG Cert Professional Studies Photography (2.1) | Central Saint Martins 

2002 - 2004 BA (Hons) 1st Class | Fashion Product Management | London Centre For Fashion Studies

1991-1993 Industriekauffrau | Apprenticeship as Industrial Business Management Assistant

COMING UP

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EXHIBITIONS



2021
. Nature’s Mysterious Networks: Mushrooms, Mycelia and Yeast | Groundwork Gallery | UK-King's Lynn

. Obsolete & Discontinued | Atelier D & Elsa Artspace | D-Bielefeld

2020
. Everyday Delight | Shutter Hub | Free Space Project | UK-London

2019
. Obsolete & Discontinued | Magazzini Fotografici | I-Naples

2018
. Obsolete & Discontinued | Waterstones Gallery | UK-London

. London Photomonth | Old Truman Brewery | UK-London

2017
. Show RCA 2017 | MA Degree Show | Royal College of Art | UK-London
. Retina 17 Photography Festival | UK-Edinburgh

. ’O' Garden Room Gallery | UK-Dartington

. Output | CGP Gallery | UK-London

2016
. Science Inspires Art: Food | NY Hall of Science | US-New York

. Obsolete & Discontinues | Schaelpic Photokunstbar | UK-Cologne

. Obsolete & Discontinued | Revela t Analogue Photo Festival | E-Barcelona

. Aether | Imperial College London | UK-London

. Break/Link | CGP Gallery | UK-London

2015
. Photofusion Salon 15 | Uk-London 

. Fiddling While Earth Burns | RCA Climate Action Collective | Dyson Gallery | UK-London

2014
. Brighton Photo Fringe | Autumn Germination: The Sprouting of New Ideas | 
 Curated by Sue Steward (RIP) | UK-Brighton

. Bonfire In A Beehive | Freightliners City Farm | UK-London

2013
. Tri-pod presnets: Miss Havisham’s Larder | Photofusion Gallery | UK-London

2012
. Q-Art Presents 4 | APT Gallery | UK-London

2011
. index7 | Protein Gallery | UK-London 

. On Water | Canal Museum | UK-London

. Try A Little Tenderness | Freightliners Farm | UK-London

. earth:NOW:being, Hackney City Farm London & Church Farm UK-Stevenage 

2010
. Arts Council England | selected for 18 month public display of Lunar Mare | UK- London

. Crash Open | Charlie Dutton Gallery | UK-London
 . Folk Off | Green Lens Studio | UK-London
 

2009
. Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009 | Cornerhouse | UK-Manchester

. Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009 | A Foundation | UK-London

. Tracing The Image | SuperMonday Collective | Crypt Gallery | UK-London
2008
. Postgraduate Show | Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design | London
. Interim Show | Corbet Place | Old Truman Brewery | London

PROJECTS:

2022
. Social Action | 5 Weeks and 3 Days | Ukraine Emergency Response | WIP | 

. Commission: Photographer | Fabric For Fashion - The Complete Guide & The Swatch Book 3rd Ed | Clive Hallett & Amanda Johnston | Laurence King Publishing

2020 - 2021
. Social Action | N4 Cutting Hub | Founder & Director | Covid Scrubs Emergency Response Action | UK-London 
2016
.MA Dissertation | Dis/Re/Integration

2015
. Commissioned Photography of fabrics for The Sustainable Angle

2014
. Commissioned Photographer | Fabric For Fashion - The Complete Guide & The Swatch Book 2nd Ed | Clive Hallett & Amanda Johnston | Laurence King Publishing

2012
. Commissioned Photography for The Sustainable Angle | Future Fabrics Expo

2010
. Commissioned Photographer | Fabric For Fashion - The Complete Guide & The Swatch Book | Clive Hallett & Amanda Johnston | Laurence King PUB



TEACHING | TALKS | RESIDENCIES

2017
. Lecture | Central Saint Martins
 | UK-London
. Lecture: Shadow’s Symposium | London College of Communication | UK- London
. Workshop | Seed Sowing Propagation and Potting Up | Royal College of Art | UK-London

. Workshop | Making Hanging Containers from Recycled Bottles | Royal College of Art | UK-London

. Workshop | How To Make Anthotypes | Royal College of Art | UK-London

. Workshop | Spore Prints | Merz Barn | UK-Langdale

. Workshop | & Making Paints from Natural Pigments | Merz Barn | UK-Langdale
2015

. Artist Talk | The Camera Club | UK-London

. LAPC Artist Talks | Myka Baum & William Arnold | Silverprint Gallery | UK- London

. Workshop | Making Connections | Victoria & Albert Museum | UK-London
2014
. Residency | Freightliners City Farm | UK-London
 . Workshops | Making Cyanotypes | Freightliners City Farm | UK-London
2013
. Artist Talk | Photofusion Gallery | UK-London
2011
. Artist Talk | Q-Art | Cass Art | UK-London
2006
. Teaching | How To Use Your Camera | Earthwatch | Seal Conservation Cornwall


ACCOLADES
2010
. Selected for 18 months display at Arts Council England
2009
. Praise from Wolfgang Tillmans: “It’s a very specific vision - it’s definitely something I have never seen before and it is an achievement.” Selection Transcript Bloomberg New Contemporaries Publications p.12

. Selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries


PRESS | PUBLICATIONS

2022
.Publication:Re:Source | The Sustainable Darkroom
2020

. Culture, Community & Climate | conversations and emergent praxis | Richard Povall | art.earth
2019
.Press Feature | The Guardian | Everyday Delights (2019/12/18)
2015
.Press Feature | The Guardian | Burning Issue: Student Art Against Climate Change

2013
.Publication | Catch Me If You Can – 12 Days in the Life of a Runner Bean | Self- published 

.Publication | Exhibiting Photography: A Practical Guide To Exhibiting Photography | Shirley Read | Focal Press

2011
.Press Feature | The Times | Beat Volatility by Avoiding the Stock Market | 
 p. 42 (12/11/2011)

.Press Feature | Islington Gazette | Front page | (21/07/2011)

2009
.Publication | | New Contemporaries Publications

.Press Feature | a-n Artist Newsletter | Bloomberg New Contemporaries review by Carolyn Shepherd (09/2009)

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