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Bio
Short version:
Sacha Halona Baumann is an artist, designer, curator, publisher, and art business professional based in downtown Los Angeles. Throughout her career she has worked closely with galleries, studios, and artists, helping them solve problems and achieve goals. Well-versed in contemporary art and its markets, Sacha excels in the operations of art and leveraging social and professional networking to create opportunities. She is the Estate Manager for The Peter Alexander Estate.
Sacha is the independent publisher of FULL BLEDE, a contemporary art and writing broadsheet. In Los Angeles she has curated exhibitions at Noysky Projects, Charlie James Gallery, and Keystone Artspace.
Sacha received her BA in Visual Communication from San Francisco State University and Masters in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art (now the Center for Business and Management of the Arts) at Claremont Graduate University.
As an artist Sacha’s primary medium is collage—she extracts found images and places them in a new context, manipulating the original tone and intention, creating a new narrative. She does so using self-imposed restrictions, which is in part a nod to her training and work as a designer as well as a consultant, in which she concentrates on problem solving for the specific needs of clients. Restrictions become opportunities for new creations. In 2023 she began to incorporate painting into her practice, focusing on language, semantics, and diaristic narratives.
STEP and REPEAT, featuring her ongoing photography series focusing on downtown Los Angeles, was published in 2022 and 2023. The two unique volumes feature 450+ images presented in a full-color, 480 page soft cover trade paperback. The third volume will be published in fall 2024.
Bit longer version:
Sacha Baumann is an art business professional living and working in downtown Los Angeles. Well-versed in contemporary art and its markets, Sacha excels in the operations of art, working with artists, studios, and galleries. She is an expert at leveraging social and professional networking to maximize opportunities, and teaching others to do the same.
Beginning in 2022 Sacha became the Estate Manager for The Estate of Peter Alexander.
As an art business consultant she has worked closely with Los Angeles-based artists, helping them solve problems and reach goals. This includes: creating and maintaining archives; designing beautiful websites; creating marketing strategies and materials; grant, r.f.p.s, and pitch writing; exhibition planning; and acting as a sounding board for project ideation. Recent artist clients include Galia Linn, Debra Scacco, Molly Segal, Mary Little, Gary Brewer, Camilla Taylor, Joseph Masotta, Chelsea Dean, and Kelly Brumfield-Woods.
Sacha is the independent publisher, designer, and editor of FULL BLEDE, a broadsheet featuring writing and contemporary art. The newspaper launched in conjunction with an exhibition opening and is distributed throughout Los Angeles. Issue Ten launched in October 2019 and featured over 50 contributors.
As a curator, Sacha is committed to facilitating the recognition of emerging artists in Los Angeles. She has organized exhibitions at Noysky Projects, Charlie James Gallery, and Keystone Artspace.
Sacha holds a Masters of Art, Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art / Drucker School of Management (now the Center for Business and Management of the Arts), at Claremont Graduate University. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communication from the Design and Industry Department at San Francisco State University.
Born in Hollywood, California, Sacha’s childhood years were spent in both Northern and Southern California, Alaska, and Utah. An enthusiastic walking urban explorer, Sacha is a dedicated DTLA booster.
As an artist, Sacha extracts found images, primarily from magazines and books, and places them in a new context, manipulating the original tone and intention, creating a new narrative. She does so using self-imposed restrictions, which is in part a nod to her training and work as a designer as well as consultant, in which she concentrates on problem solving for the specific needs of clients. Restrictions become opportunities for new creations. In 2023 she began to incorporate painting into her practice, focusing on language, semantics, and diaristic narratives.
STEP and REPEAT, an ongoing photography book series, was published in 2022 and 2023. Each volume features 450+ unique images in a full-color, 480 page trade paperback, representing a small selection of her street photography taken around downtown Los Angeles between 2014 to present day. The third volume will be published in fall of 2024.
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, 1970
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, 1999
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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
2022
Short films screening, featuring 10 works, Wönzimer, 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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
STEP and REPEAT, cover color hex #122f4a, 2023. Full color, 480 page trade paperback.
STEP and REPEAT, cover color hex #4a122f, 2022. Full color, 480 page trade paperback.
“The Overshare,” essay in Molly Segal: Marrow Sucker, exhibition catalog published by Luna Anais Gallery, 2021.
FULL BLEDE, a broadsheet featuring artwork and writing of over 250 contributors, 10 issues, 2017–2019.
Zines, ongoing 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
Elsewhere:
I co-designed and co-wrote a wine blog with Jason King: Swirl Smell Slurp. We had a great time with it, won an award, got a ton of free wine, and found ourselves as the cover story of a fancy magazine...and then quit. Click around the archives if you're into wine and boozy he said / she said banter.
News
A chronological selection of events I've participated in and press / mentions I've received.
Press:
“On being a passenger,” introduction by India Mandelkern with essay by me, for Los Angeles Metro
On the occasion of their 30th anniversary, Metro asked me to write an essay about how public transportation helps shape my art and life. Full feature here.
Press:
“Artist Sacha Halona Baumann makes a portrait of downtown L.A. one (literal) step at a time,” by Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times
Full feature here.
Group Show:
Don’t Believe Everything You Think at the Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale
April 22–June 16, 2023
Details here.
Short Film Screening:
Curated short films viewing experience at Wönzimer, Los Angeles.
September 15, 2022
I put together a program of 10 films that focus on artists’ interaction with space and architecture.
Group Show:
Resilience: A Visual Proclamation at Upstart Modern, Sausalito.
September 14–October 26, 2022
Details here.
Book launch:
STEP and REPEAT launches at LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles.
The 480 page, full color trade paper back features photographs of DTLA from 2014–2022.
Two Person Show:
Double U at LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles.
September 2–October 9, 2022
With HK Zamani, the show features work made from late 1990s and early 2000s W magazines. Details here.
Group Show:
Summer Show Featuring the Magnificent Seven at LA TATE GALLERY, Los Angeles.
August 13–September 2, 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.
November 13–December 18, 2021
With Lindsey Warren, Brian Barneclo, Chelsea Dean, Carrie Lederer, Sacha H. Baumann, Liz Walsh, Richard Ankrom, Orly Ruaimi, Brian T. Caraway, Vy Ngo, Joel Zuercher. Details here.
Publication:
“The Overshare,” essay in Molly Segal: Marrow Sucker exhibition catalog
Catalog published by Luna Anais Gallery. Read full essay here and contact gallery to order a copy.
Group Show:
Shitty Heaven at Santa Josefina, Los Angeles.
March 19–April 25, 2021
With Demi Boelsterli, Ryan Crudgington, Magic Carpets, Sacha Baumann, Matthew Sweesy, David Liebe Hart, Allie Learn, Van Jazmin, Lee Piechocki, Michael Haight, Mas Guerrero, Mike Chattem Sarah Granett, Sara Dill, Jesse Clark, Slim Reaper Light Show, Lonesome Town, Oscar Sanchez. Details here.
Podcast:
“Calls with CURA: Stories from the Art World. Sacha Halona Baumann—Artist, Curator, and Art Business Consultant”
CURA
released March 12, 2021
A conversation between Sacha and Liza Shapiro. Listen on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Press / mention:
“Women Indoors,” by Sarah Fonseca with Art by Sacha Baumann, Evergreen
February 2021
Nine collages accompany a story in this literary journal established in 1957. View here.
Press / mention:
“Sacha Baumann’s FULL BLEDE delivers community and collaboration with art world” by Virginia Broersma, The HiLo, Long Beach Post
February 10, 2020
“Baumann is a rare type that has both artistic abilities and administrative skills that she puts to good use working for artists and galleries as an arts administrator.” Read full article here.
Press / mention:
“CONTINUANT at Noysky Projects” Review by Lorraine Heitzman on Art and Cake
February 17, 2019
“Organized by Sacha Baumann, it is a concise and thoughtfully curated exhibit that looks at the ways we remain constant despite both outward and inner changes.” Read full review of the exhibition with extensive photos here.
Press / mention:
“Datebook: Los Angeles—10 Exhibitions and events to check out” by Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times
January 10, 2019
Culture editor recommends CONTINUANT online and in print, full text here.
Curation:
CONTINUANT at Noysky Projects
January 13 – February 17, 2019
A group show exploring retaining identity, even though the body’s state and relations may change featuring Chelle Barbour, Sydney Mills, Jaklin Romine, and Camilla Taylor. Noysky Projects press release and installation images here.
Press / mention:
“Meet Sacha Baumann of FULL BLEDE in Downtown Los Angeles” VoyageLA
September 2018
Interview of me by online magazine about current and future projects. Full text here.
Press / mention:
"Sacha Baumann’s FULL BLEDE” by Lorraine Heitzman on Art and Cake
July 23, 2018
Profile focusing on FULL BLEDE and how it came about. “Baumann, an entrepreneurial designer and artist with a buoyant personality, is the sole publisher, designer, curator and distributor of FULL BLEDE, a new local independent art publication.” Read full text here.
Press / mention:
"Weekend Art Spree" Artillery Magazine
January 18, 2018
Snapshot review of "IT'S OK. ↘": "In Chinatown, downstairs at Charlie James gallery, “It’s OK,” curated by Sacha Baumann, features seven artists in a rich exploration of adaptation. Works evoke strange plants, mysterious memories, or magical realms..." full text here.
Curation:
IT'S OK. ↘ at Charlie James Gallery
January 20–March 3, 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. Charlie James Gallery press release here, installation images here.
Group Show:
TIES: A GROUP SHOW at Keystone Art Space
May 13-20, 2017
Curated by made in chynna x little durian, the exhibition focused on connections.
Press / mention:
"Portrait of Visitor Services Associate, Sacha, at The Broad"
January 2017
The Broad museum featured my portrait and work on their Facebook and Instagram account. Links here, here, and here.
Group Show:
Tell Me a Story: Women in the Arts at La Quinta Museum
January - April, 2017
Group Show:
VSA's: a Group Exhibition at Keystone Art Space
January 2016
I co-coordinated, designed, and participated as an artist in this exhibition which featured the Visitor Services Associates of The Broad. Visit website here.
Press / mention:
"Price Ranges And Studio Images Of 21 Contemporary Artists" Forbes Magazine April 6, 2015
My studio featured, read full text on Forbes.com
Group Show:
&GO! at Keystone Art Space
Winter, 2014
Show focusing on printed works featuring Jesse Vogel, Micke Tong, Ching Ching Cheng, John Dembski, Chelsea Dean, and Nova. My piece sold.
Press / mention:
Open House at Keystone on The Los Angeles Beat
November 16, 2014
Features an image of my studio. See the post here.
Group Show:
Group Show at Keystone Art Space
November 2014
Featuring Dean Styers, Michelle Robinson, Elena Dorfman, Tim Hussey, Melanie Mandl, Ana Medina, Molly Segal, and others. My piece sold.
Group Show:
Generate at Keystone Art Space
June 2014
Group show curated by Melanie Mandl featuring artists of Keystone, including myself, Dean Styers, Luc Bernard, Luke Whitlatch, Tim Hussey, Sydney Mills, and others. My piece sold.
Press / mention:
"Sacha Baumann: Cut and Dry" on YAY!LA
June 18, 2013
Extensive article featuring my work and process. Read it here.
Event:
Keystone Art Space Open Studios
May 4, 2013
Over 40 pieces of my work were on display in the Somewhere Something studio for this popular, semi regular even of the warehouse.
Press / mention:
"Artist Interview with Sacha Baumann" on The Collage Workbook
February 8, 2013
In depth interview with images for the website of Randel Plowman's popular book, The Collage Workbook.
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.