Leslie Baum
lesliemichellebaum@gmail.com
@lepchamina on instagram
Education
1993 University of Vermont, BA.
1992 Glasgow School of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2022 An Instrument in the Shape of A Woman, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2022 A Garden in a Vase: 11.06.21 - 01.29.22, The Arts Club of Chicago, Drawing Room
2021 A Garden in a Vase: 4.1.20 – 4.1.21, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
2020 A Garden in a Vase, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 In Process: the Plein Air Project, LivingRoom, Chicago IL
2018 blues, greens and YELLOW, Lula Walls, Chicago, IL
2018 night brings day/day brings night, Heaven Gallery, IL
2018 Here comes the Rainbow, Cleve Carney Museum, The College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
2017 mountain and SEA, SXU Gallery, St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL
2017 MOUNTAIN and sea, 4th Ward Project Space, Chicago IL
2016 Excuse Me If I get Too Deep, Geary, NYC
2015 Co-conspirators and the Possibilities of Painting in the Parallel Universe, Hap Gallery, Portand, OR
2015 A Slower Dimension: Portals and Mementos, Lula Walls, Chicago, IL
2015 Drunken Geometry, Baum/Wade, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
2015 Unstuck Time: a Small Stage for Wandering Minds, Clutch Gallery, Chicago IL
2014 Souvenirs from Wonderland, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH
2013 Heart On My Sleeve, Terrain Exhibitions, Oak Park, IL
2012 Leslie Baum, The Salon Series at Version Fest, MN Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 The Eyes Have It, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
2011 Axis Mundi, Lula Walls, Chicago, IL
2009 Half light, Half Life, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago IL
2006 The Space Between, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2004 My Mountain, My Molehill, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 A Daytripper’s Diary, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Leslie Baum, New Paintings, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Clonelike, The Better Weinmaraner Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2022 Wheel of Life, curated by Scott Wolniak, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2021 Plain Air, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (May)
2020 A Poem from Home, curated by Rema Huloum, JACOBS’S WEST, LA CA
2019 Fuzzy Transmissions, curated by Jesse Malmed, MONACO, St. Louis, MO
2019 Pome, curated by Jesse Malmed, Seattle Freezer, Seattle, WA
2019 With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
2019 Cloud Nine, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago IL
2019 Rebuilding the Present, Weinberg Newton Gallery, Chicago IL
2019 My Informal Printmaking Residency with Stan Shellaburger, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2018 Human Touch, Jonathan Apgar, Leslie Baum, Rema Ghuloum, and Scott Wolniak, Los Osos CA
2018 Local Comfort, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Regarding the Unknown, Leslie Baum and Brain Kapernakas, Yellow Door Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2018 Inquiry 01: Chicago Jewish Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Spertus Institute, Chicago, IL.
2018 Pushing Up Daisies, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier and Ryan Coffey, Peana, Monterray, Mexico.
2018 Waterworld, curated by Holly and Zachary Cahill, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
2017 Un:Function, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2017 Dangerous Professors, Triumph Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Good Vibrations, Circle Contemporary Gallery, Chicago IL
2016 The Annual, CAC, Chicago, IL
2016 Ohne Titel, 65grand, Chicago, IL
2016 EXPO chicago, Geary Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2016 Known Unknowns: Painting in Chicago, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
2016 Legends for Loose Grids, Waiting Room, Minneapolis, MN
2016 New American Paintings, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst,IL
2016 Axes of Abstraction, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
2015 Expo Chicago, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
2015 Appropinquation, Carrie Secrist Gallery, curated by Britton Bertran, Chicago IL
2015 Making Strategies, Geary Contemporary, curated by Andy Hall, NYC, NY
2015 Making an Entrance, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, curated by Vincent Uribe, NYC, NY
2015 DucksLA, Minotaur Projects, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Leslie Baum and Liz Nielsen, LVL3 at Material Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 Driveway, Driveway327, Venice, CA
2014 Rocket Run, Abstraction from Chicago, Curated by Alexander Herzog, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
2014 100 Painters of Tomorrow, One Art Space, NYC, NY
2014 Chromatic Consortium, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
2013 The Wheelhouse: Leslie Baum/Frederick Wells, Kate Nartker, Melissa Oresky, Allison Shulnick, and Amy Sillman, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
2013 My Crippled Friend, curated by Michael Goodson, CCAD, Columbus, OH
2013 Leslie Baum, Stacy Fisher, and Matt Miller, BravinLee programs, NYC
2013 Fragment: Sampling the Modern, curated by Staci Boris, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
2013 The Drawer’s Drawing, curated by Carrie Gundersdorf and Eric Lebofsky, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago IL
2013 Post Hope: Leslie Baum & Kokoska, LVL3, Chicago IL
2012 Artadia Booth, Expo Chicago, curated by Steven Bridges, Chicago, IL
2012 Various Small Abstractions, Gallery D, Chicago, IL
2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Italy
2009 Divergent Discourse: Leslie Baum and Mark Booth, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
2009 Psst Shhhh, curated by Tim Kinsella, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Sosabul Art Expo, PyungTeak, Korea
2007 Direct, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago IL
2006 But You Gave Me Flowers, Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL.
2006 Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Land Escape, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL
2005 Associative Realms, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005 Arte Chicago, Barone Odom Galleria, Rome, Italy
2004 Private, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Summer, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Here and Now, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2001 The Emerging Landscape, The Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
2001 Serendipity, The Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Summer Show, The Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 The Big Show, The Dwellingseries, Chicago, IL
2000 Lowdown, The Dwellingseries, Chicago, IL
2000 Grounded, The Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Special Projects and Screenings
2019 Ghost TV screening, Forbes Plaza, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA
2019 College Office, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
2017 Aquarelle Color Study: Leslie Baum for Assaf Evron’s exhibition, 54 Basel St, Herzliya Museum of Art, Curator: Dr. Aya Lurie, Tev Aviv, Israel
2019 Moving_Image_00:05, Experimental Film Festival, Guest curated by Rana Siegel, Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL
2016 Wheelhouse 2, an Evening of Experiemntal Animation, Facets Multimedia and the Comfort Station, Chicago IL
2015 Starlight Experiemental Film Series, University of Madison, Madison WI
2014 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Nightingale Cinema, Chicago IL
2014 Wheelhouse, an Evening of Experimental Animation, Devening Projects and Editions.
Honors
2020 DCASE Individual Artist Grant
2012 Artadia Chicago Finalist
2012 Yaddo Residency
2005 Nominated for the Richard H. Driehaus emerging artist Award
2004 Named “Best Emerging Artist” by Chicago Magazine.
2003 Nominated for the Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award
1993 Vermont Studio Center, Artist’s Residency, June
Publications
2020 “Beer with a Painter: Leslie Baum,” Hyperallergic
2020 “Creative Quarantine: Leslie Baum,” Esthetic Lens
2019 “Rebuilding the Present,” exhibition catalogue, Weinberg Newton Gallery
2018 “Waterworld,” exhibition catalogue, Columbia College
2017 “Here Comes the Rainbow,” exhibition catalogue, The College of DuPage
2017 "At Triumph Gallery, More Than 150 artists counteract a GOP Watch list," by Kate Siezputowski, The Chicago Reader, May
2016 "Excuse Me If I Get Too Deep," exhibition catalogue, November
2016 "Known Unknowns," exhibition catalogue, June
2016 "Artist Invites Audience to Walk All Over Her Work at Saint Xavier," by Howard Ludwig, dnainfo Chicago, February
2016 "Leslie Baum: MOUNTAIN and sea @ 4th Ward Project Space," by Zach Blumfeld, February
2015 “I Love What You Have Done With This Room,” by Patrick Collier, Oregon Artswatch, September.
2015 "Escape, Release, and Return," by Sarah Sgro, Guernicamag.com, April
2015 "Review: Drunken Geometry/ Devenging Projects + Editions," Newcity, by Alan Pocaro, February
2015 "Drunken Geometry//devening Projects + Editons," The Seen: Chicago's, Online International Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art, by Ruslana Litchtzier, March
2014 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson, 20014
2014 Souvenirs From Wonderland catalogue, Miami University
2014 “Weekend Studio Visit: Leslie Baum in Logan Square, Chicago,”Hyperallergic, NYC by John Yau.
2014 “Leslie Baum’s Hydradic Appetite,” Inside/Within
2014 "Chromatic Consortium Vibrant" Bad At Sports, Edition #29 by Dana Bassett
2013 "My Crippled Friend," artforum.com, December
2013 “Building Blocks: Leslie Baum, Stacy Fisher, and Matt Miller,” NY Arts Magazine, September 10.
2013 “The Top 13 Art Shows,” Surface Magazine, July/August
2013 “Post Hope,” SFAQonline, February 5.
2013 “Eye Exam: Friends Curating Friends,” Newcity, February 5.
2012 “Global Art Exhibition Could Paint City Differently,” Chicago Tribune, November 14.
2011 "Digital Bits with Real Bite," Chicago Tribune, June 9.
2011 "Artists of the Week," lvl3tumblr
2009 “Divergent Discourse, Leslie Baum & Mark Booth,” Exhibition Catalogue
2009 “Leslie Baum and Jessica Mein at Tony Wight Gallery,” Saatchi-gallery.com
2007 “Leslie Baum, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery,” Artforum, January.
2007 “Windy Apple…Leslie Baum,” Artnet.com, January.
2007 “Leslie Baum,” Flavorpill Chicago, November.
2006 “Still Materialism,” Chicago Tribune, December.
2006 “Five Shows To See…Leslie Baum,” The New City, December.
2005 New American Paintings, Volume 59.
2005 “Mostracolletiva 01,” Arte49.com, February.
2004 “The Best of Chicago,” Chicago Magazine, August, p.108.
2004 “Art Galleries Review,” Chicago Tribune, September 24.
2004 “Air-kissing booth,” Chicago Journal, September 25.
2003 “Summer Vacation,” The New City, July.
2003 New American Paintings, Volume 47.
2003 “Reviews, Chicago,” Art in America, January.
2002 “Color’s Effects Exposed…Leslie Baum,” Chicago Tribune, October.
2002 Here and Now Catalogue, October.
2001 “Serendipity,” The New Art Examiner, November.
2001 “Five Shows to See,” The New City, March.
2000 “Prairie Smoke,” Artnet.com, September.
Museum Collections
Chicago Art Institute
Elmhurst Art Museum