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Professional summary
Multifaceted arts professional with wide-ranging experience in contemporary art, estate and studio management, archives, and executive support. Skilled at keeping complex projects and daily operations on track—whether managing inventories, coordinating exhibitions, or supporting senior leadership. Strong background in collections care, publishing, and curatorial projects. Known for clear communication, problem-solving, and bringing structure to evolving environments. Equally at home in artist studios, nonprofit organizations, and executive offices, with a steady, adaptable approach and deep respect for creative work.
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Bio
Sacha Halona Baumann is an enthusiastic and engaged art business professional based in downtown Los Angeles. Deeply versed in contemporary art and its markets, she brings a strong sense of operations, vision, and community to her work—leveraging social and professional networks to build legacies, create opportunity, and foster collaboration. Over the course of her career, Sacha has worked closely with galleries, studios, artists, institutions, and estates to help them solve problems, meet goals, and move their work forward.
Her background as an artist, designer, curator, collector, and publisher informs her practice—she lives and speaks the language of art. This holistic perspective is central to her approach. Her years in fine dining and wine also shape her sensibility: she often draws a parallel between art and wine appreciation, urging people to pause, pay attention, trust their instincts, and focus quietly on their sensations when engaging with a work of art. This cultivated attentiveness carries into both her consulting practice and her own creative work.
Sacha holds a BA in Visual Communication from San Francisco State University and a Master’s in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (now the Center for Business and Management of the Arts) at Claremont Graduate University. Prior to working in the arts, she spent many years in fine dining and wine, earning a Certificate of Vintage: Wine Steward / Sommelier from the UCLA School of Wine Education and Management.
She is the founder and publisher of FULL BLEDE, a contemporary art and writing broadsheet that featured the work of over 250 contributors across ten issues, each launched in conjunction with gallery exhibitions to foster public engagement. As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions and happenings throughout the Los Angeles area, including at Noysky Projects, Charlie James Gallery, Keystone Artspace, Wonzimer, LA Tate, and The Brand Library and Art Center.
As an artist, Sacha’s primary medium is collage: she re-contextualizes found imagery to create new narratives, often working within self-imposed constraints that reflect both her design training and her consulting practice—where creative problem solving within limitations is key. In 2023, she began incorporating painting into her work, with a focus on language, semantics, and diaristic storytelling.
Her photography series STEP and REPEAT, documenting downtown Los Angeles, has been published in two volumes (2022, 2023), each featuring over 450 full-color images across 480 pages. A third volume is scheduled for release in Fall 2025.
A native Angeleno, Sacha was born in Hollywood and raised across Northern and Southern California, Alaska, and Utah. She is a dedicated DTLA booster and an avid urban explorer, happiest on foot in the city she calls home.
Artist's statement (<200 words):
I am an artist, designer, curator, publisher, and art business professional based in downtown Los Angeles. My primary art forms are collage and street photography. When I turn the pages of a magazine or book my impulse is often to extract graphic and photographic elements and place them in a new context—manipulating tone and intention to create a new narrative. I give myself restrictions as to how to appropriate found images into something new. This process is in part a nod to my design training—I identify and solve problems within specific parameters. The results are collaged works focusing on women, sexuality, typography, and texture. The original materials do not entirely disappear in the new compositions, but when successful their meanings and emotional tone shift into a complete, fresh image, sometimes whimsical, sometimes serious. Downtown Los Angeles is my muse—for nearly 30 years I have been walking around DTLA, examining and photographing the ever-changing landscape. Recently I began an ongoing book project featuring my photographs called STEP and REPEAT. The 450+ images for each volume are randomly selected from my iCloud and published in a full color, 480 page trade paperback book.
CURRICULUM VITAE
b. Hollywood
lives and works in downtown Los Angeles
EDUCATION
Masters of Art, Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art / Drucker School of Management (now the Center for Business and Management of the Arts), Claremont Graduate University, 2018
Bachelor of Arts, School of Design: Visual Communication, San Francisco State University, 2008
Certificate of Vintage, Wine Education and Management, University of California at Los Angeles, 2000
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Compromising Positions, curated by Aaron Tilford, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
The Middle Becomes Eclectic, The Middle Room, Los Angeles, CA
When the Summer Bullet Sings, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA
Cut Up, curated by Jody Zellin, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA
Desert Views, La Quinta Museum, La Quinta, CA
2023
Desert Views, La Quinta Museum, La Quinta, CA
Don’t Believe Everything You Think, curated by Galia Linn, The Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
2022
Resilience: A Visual Proclamation, Upstart Modern, Sausalito, CA
Double U, two person show with HK Zamani, LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Show Featuring the Magnificent Seven, LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Of Modest Mystics, Idol Wild, Los Angeles, CA
Shitty Heaven, Santa Josefina, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Maiden LA Launch Party, organized by Molly Schulman and Salomeh Grace, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
Disparate Sources, curated by Chelsea Dean, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2017
TIES, curated by Made in Chynna and Little Durian, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Tell Me a Story: Women in the Arts, La Quinta Museum, La Quinta, CA
2014
&GO!, curated by Jesse Vogel, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Winter Group Show, co-curated with Melanie Mandl, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Generate, curated by Melanie Mandl, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Somewhere Something Open Studios, Somewhere Something, Los Angeles, CA
Keystone Art Space Featured Artists, curated by Melanie Mandl, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Mini Collage Canvases, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Torn, solo show at Canelé, Los Angeles, CA
All in for the 99%, organized by Marsea Goldberg of New Image Art, Ace Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2010
No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents / Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern, organized by David Horvitz for Rhizome, Tate Modern, London, UK
CURATION
2023
Don’t Believe Everything You Think, co-organized with curator Galia Linn, The Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
2022
Short films screening, featuring 10 works, Wönzimer, Los Angeles, CA
Double U, co-curated with HK Zamani, LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
2019
CONTINUANT, Noysky Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018
IT'S OK.↘, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
VSA’s: A Group Exhibition, co-organized with Sarah Gonzalves, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Winter Group Show, co-curated with Melanie Mandl, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles,CA
Blind Spot Initiative, organized by Somewhere Something (Sacha Baumann, Biayna Bogosian, Jason King) + Plethora Project (Jose Sanchez), Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
Spunk 16: Compromising Positions, 2025
Featured Artist. Published by Aaron Tilford.
STEP and REPEAT, 2022, 2023, and forthcoming in 2025.
Artist, Designer, Publisher. Full color photography books featuring over 450 unique images in each volume of downtown Los Angeles taken from 2014 to present day.
Mai 49—Watercolors, Galia Linn 2022
Designer, Editor. Full color, 52 page catalog on the occasion of the exhibition at Hamzianpour & Kia (Los Angeles), published by the gallery and artist.
POEMS, Oded Noy, 2022
Designer. Trade paperback book, 110 pages, published by the author.
FULL BLEDE, 2017–2019
Founder, Designer, Editor, Publisher. A broadsheet featuring artwork and writing from over 250 contributors across 10 issues, launched with Los Angeles gallery exhibition openings, encouraging community engagement.
Molly Segal: Marrow Sucker 2021
Contributor. "The Overshare,” essay for the Marrow Sucker exhibition catalog, published by Luna Anais Gallery.
black is a color, 2017
Designer. Exhibition catalog for a group show curated by Essence Harden at Charlie James Gallery, published by the gallery.
Zines, ongoing
Artist, Designer, Publisher. A practice since childhood.
PRESS
“Artist Sacha Halona Baumann makes a portrait of downtown L.A. one (literal) step at a time,” by Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2023
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2023-04-22/sacha-halona-baumann-downtown-la-photos-step-and-repeat-essential-arts-arts-culture
“Women Indoors,” by Sarah Fonseca with Art by Sacha Baumann, Evergreen, February 2021
https://evergreenreview.com/read/women-indoors/
“Sacha Baumann’s FULL BLEDE delivers community and collaboration with art world” by Virginia Broersma, The HiLo, Long Beach Post, February 10, 2020 https://lbpost.com/hi-lo/sacha-baumanns-full-blede-pictures-art-world-success
“CONTINUANT at Noysky Projects,” review by Lorraine Heitzman on Art and Cake, February 17, 2019 https://artandcakela.com/2019/02/07/continuant-at-noysky-projects/
“Datebook: Los Angeles—10 Exhibitions and events to check out” by Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times, January 10, 2019 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-datebook-lisa-adams-garis-and-hahn-htmlstory.html
“Meet Sacha Baumann of FULL BLEDE in Downtown Los Angeles,” VoyageLA, September 2018
http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-sacha-baumann-full-blede-dtla-downtown-los-angeles/
"Sacha Baumann’s FULL BLEDE,” by Lorraine Heitzman on Art and Cake
July 23, 2018 https://artandcakela.com/2018/07/23/sacha-baumanns-full-blede/
"Weekend Art Spree," Snapshot review of IT'S OK. ↘, Artillery Magazine, January 18, 2018
https://artillerymag.com/weekend-art-spree/
“Portrait of Visitor Services Associate, Sacha, at The Broad,” The Broad social media, January 2017 https://goo.gl/CkKrrJ • https://goo.gl/coJnhM • https://goo.gl/ebwgu8
“Price Ranges And Studio Images of 21 Contemporary Artists,” Forbes Magazine, April 2016 https://goo.gl/VZjgMa
“Open House at Keystone,” The Los Angeles Beat, November 2014 https://goo.gl/zn2nYo
“Sacha Baumann: Cut and Dry,” YAY! LA, by Daniel Barron, June 2013 http://www.yaylablog.com/sacha-baumann/
“Artist Interview with Sacha Baumann,” The Collage Workbook, by Randel Plowman, February 2013
“Sacha Baumann’s Collages are Free of Convention,” Mutantspace, February 2013 http://www.mutantspace.com/sacha-baumann-collages-free-convention/
“Works by Sacha Baumann,” Juxtapoz, January 2013 https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/works-by-sacha-baumann/
“Sacha Baumann, Stars in Stripes,” Hyperallergic, January 2013 https://goo.gl/Bcqu3G
“Sacha Baumann, Caught!,” Hyperallergic, January 2013 https://goo.gl/AhEkYt
“Sacha Baumann, Defaced,” Juxtapoz, June 2012 https://goo.gl/QQfGri
“Sacha Baumann,” All That Inspires, guest post by Borbay, October 2011
“Hollywood Based Artist Sacha Baumann,” Lights Out Collective, August 2011
News
A chronological selection of exhibitions, lectures, publications, press, and other highlights.
Magazine Launch:
Spunk 16 at Good Mother Gallery,
August 2025
Features my collages
Details here.
Group Show:
Compromising Positions at Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles
August 30, 2025
Curated by Aaron Tilford; my work was selected as the exhibition poster.
Details here.
Group Show:
The Middle Becomes Eclectic at The Middle Room, Los Angeles
Opened November 15, 2024
Details here.
Group Show:
When the Summer Bullet Sings at Track 16, Los Angeles
Opened July 20, 2024
Details here.
Group Show:
Cut Up at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice
Opened June 22, 2024
Details here.
Juror:
City Hearts, Compton
May 2024
Provided portfolio feedback to photography students in the nonprofit’s course for 6th graders.
Lecture:
STEP and REPEAT, Contemporary Photography at the Peter Alexander Estate, Santa Monica
February 2024
Presented my ongoing photography book project to students from Brian Moss’ Loyola Marymount University course.
Group Show:
Desert Views at La Quinta Museum, La Quinta
Opened January 20, 2024
Details here.
Publication:
“On being a passenger,” Los Angeles Metro
November 2023
Essay for Metro’s 30th anniversary publication, introduced by India Mandelkern.
Full feature here.
Press:
“Artist Sacha Halona Baumann makes a portrait of downtown L.A. one (literal) step at a time,” Los Angeles Times
April 23, 2023
By Carolina Miranda.
Full feature here.
Group Show / Co-Organized:
Don’t Believe Everything You Think at the Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale
Opened April 22, 2023
Details here.
Curation:
Film Program at Wönzimer, Los Angeles
September 15, 2022
A selection of 10 short films exploring artists’ interaction with space and architecture.
Group Show:
Resilience: A Visual Proclamation at Upstart Modern, Sausalito
Opened September 14, 2022
Details here.
Book launch:
STEP and REPEAT at LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles
September 2022
My 480-page, full-color photography book documenting downtown Los Angeles, 2014–2022.
Two Person Show:
Double U at LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles
Opened September 2, 2022
With HK Zamani, featuring works made from W Magazine (1990s–2000s).
Details here.
Group Show:
Summer Show Featuring the Magnificent Seven at LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles
Opened August 13, 2022
With Michael Arata, Sacha Baumann, Les Biller, Peter Liashokov, Lena Moross, Marianne Sadowski, Keith Walsh, and HK Zamani.
Details here.
Group Show:
Of Modern Mystics at Idol Wild, Los Angeles
Opened November 13, 2021
With Lindsey Warren, Chelsea Dean, Brian Barneclo, Carrie Lederer, Liz Walsh, Richard Ankrom, Orly Ruaimi, Brian T. Caraway, Vy Ngo, Joel Zuercher.
Details here.
Publication:
“The Overshare,” essay in Molly Segal: Marrow Sucker Luna Anais Gallery
February 2021
Essay in exhibition catalog.
Read full essay here.
Group Show:
Shitty Heaven at Santa Josefina, Los Angeles
Opened March 19, 2021
With Sacha Baumann, Matthew Sweesy, David Liebe Hart, Allie Learn, Michael Haight, Mas Guerrero, Sarah Granett, Sara Dill, Jesse Clark, Slim Reaper Light Show, Lonesome Town, and others.
Details here.
Podcast:
“Calls with CURA: Stories from the Art World.”
March 12, 2021
Conversation with Liza Shapiro.
Available on Spotify.
Press:
“Women Indoors,” Evergreen Journal
February 2021
Nine collages accompanied an essay by Sarah Fonseca. View here.
Press:
“Sacha Baumann’s FULL BLEDE delivers community and collaboration with art world,” The HiLo, Long Beach Post
February 2020
By Virginia Broersma.
Full article here.
Press:
“CONTINUANT at Noysky Projects,” Art and Cake
February 17, 2019
Review by Lorraine Heitzman.
Read here.
Press:
“Datebook: Los Angeles—10 Exhibitions and events to check out,” Los Angeles Times
January 10, 2019
By Carolina Miranda.
Full text here.
Curation:
CONTINUANT at Noysky Projects, Los Angeles
Opened January 13, 2019
Group show featuring Chelle Barbour, Sydney Mills, Jaklin Romine, and Camilla Taylor.
Read press release here.
Press:
“Meet Sacha Baumann of FULL BLEDE in Downtown Los Angeles” VoyageLA
September 2018
Interview feature.
Read here.
Press:
"Sacha Baumann’s FULL BLEDE,” Art and Cake
July 23, 2018
Profile by Lorraine Heitzman.
Read here.
Press:
"Weekend Art Spree" Artillery Magazine
January 18, 2018
Snapshot review of "IT'S OK. ↘".
Read here.
Curation:
IT'S OK. ↘ at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
Opened January 20, 2018
A group show exploring the profound power of adaptation, featuring featuring Nadege Monchera Baer, Hayley Barker, Megan Mueller, Stephen Neidich, Kottie Paloma, Molly Segal, and Luke Whitlatch.
Read press release here.
Group Show:
TIES: A GROUP SHOW at Keystone Art Space
Opened May 13, 2017
Curated by made in chynna x little durian.
Press:
"Portrait of Visitor Services Associate, Sacha, at The Broad"
January 2017
Featured on The Broad’s social media.
Links here, here, and here.
Group Show:
Tell Me a Story: Women in the Arts at La Quinta Museum, La Quinta, CA
January - April, 2017
Group Show / Curation:
VSA's: a Group Exhibition at Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles
January 2016
Exhibition featuring The Broad’s Visitor Services Associates.
Press:
"Price Ranges And Studio Images Of 21 Contemporary Artists" Forbes Magazine April 6, 2015
My studio featured.
Read here.
Group Show:
&GO! at Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles
Winter, 2014
Show focusing on printed works featuring Jesse Vogel, Micke Tong, Ching Ching Cheng, John Dembski, Chelsea Dean, and Nova.
Press:
”Open House at Keystone,” The Los Angeles Beat
November 16, 2014
Features an image of my studio.
View here.
Group Show:
Group Show at Keystone Art Space
November 2014
Featuring work by Sacha Baumann, Dean Styers, Michelle Robinson, Elena Dorfman, Tim Hussey, Melanie Mandl, Ana Medina, Molly Segal, and others.
Group Show:
Generate at Keystone Art Space
June 2014
Group show curated by Melanie Mandl featuring work by Sacha Baumann, Dean Styers, Luc Bernard, Luke Whitlatch, Tim Hussey, Sydney Mills, and others.
Press:
"Sacha Baumann: Cut and Dry," YAY!LA
June 18, 2013
Extensive article featuring my work and process.
Read here.
Event:
Keystone Art Space Open Studios, Los Angeles
May 4, 2013
Over 40 works on display in the Somewhere Something studio.
Press:
"Artist Interview with Sacha Baumann," The Collage Workbook
February 8, 2013
In-depth interview feature.
Group Show:
Featured Artists of Keystone Art Space at Keystone Art Space
February - April 2013
Group show curated by Melanie Mandl featuring artists of Keystone, including Dean Styers, Jesse Vogel, Luc Bernard, Wayne Bannister, Time Hussey. My work sold.
Press / mention:
"Sacha Baumann's Collages Are Free of Convention" on Mutantspace
February 1, 2013
Blog post feature on current and past work. Read it here.
Press / mention:
"Works by Sacha Baumann" on Juxtapoz
January 30, 2013
Front page website feature on current work.
Press / mention:
Hyperallergic
"Stars in Stripes"
January 22, 2013
Featured as a Talk Back Tuesday Artist on Hyperallergic. See it here.
Press / mention:
Hyperallergic
"Caught!"
January 8, 2013
Featured at Talk Back Tuesday Artist on Hyperallergic. See it here.
Group Show:
Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City
July 2012
"Mini Collage Canvases" featured at Kayo Gallery.
Press / mention:
Juxtapoz Tumblr
June 28, 2012
"Defaced" collage featured. See it here.
Solo Exhibition:
Torn at Canelé, Los Angeles
June 14 - July 29, 2012
Featuring 17 of my pieces on display at this popular Los Angeles eatery.
Group Show:
All in for the 99% at Ace Museum, Los Angeles
March 31, 2012
Curated by Marsea Goldberg, New Image Art.
Art exhibit in conjunction with this celebration of art, music, and activism. Presented by Van Jones/Rebuild the Dream, MoveOnCivilAction, Russell Simmons/Occupy the Dream, SEIU, and Courage Campaign.
Fellow artists included RETNA, Amanda Demme, Anthony Lister, Estevan Oriol, Gia Coppola, Ione Skye, James Gallagher, Kofie, Mai Anh, Neckface, Paul Miller AKA DJ Spooky, Robbie Conal, Sage Vaughn, Shepard Fairey, and Skullphone. Music included Moby and Tenancious D.
My piece sold.
Press highlights: Storify slideshow, Huffington Post feature, Los Angeles Magazine article
Press / mention:
All That Inspires "Guest post by @Borbay"
October 31, 2011
Post by New York based artist Jason Borbet, aka Borbay, about artists whose work he collects and inspires him. Read it here.
Press / mention:
"Hollywood Based Artist Sacha Baumann" on Lights Out Collective
August 31, 2011
Interview and slideshow. Blurb here.
Group Show:
No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents at Tate Modern, London
May 2010
A celebration of the Tate's 10th anniversary, my piece was part of the Rhizome's installation "Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern," curated by David Horvitz. Read more about it here.