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
2023
. 40 Jahre Atelier Schulstrasse | D-Münster
. Soil Culture | Artist-in-Residence | Freightliners Farm | London
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)