Erica Baum

Erica Baum (born 1961) is an American photographer who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her work that uses printed paper and language as subject, in a form of word art.

Early life and education Baum was born in New York City in 1961.

Baum's work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.

Exhibitions Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New York (1999) Subject Index, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden (2008) The Imminence of Poetics, São Paulo Biennial (2012) Athens Biennial (2013) Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany (2013) Reloaded: Concrete Trends, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany (2015) Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015) The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York (2017)

Publications

The Melody Indicator, Triple Canopy (2012) Dog Ear, with Kenneth Goldsmith and Béatrice Gross, Ugly Duckling Presse (2011) Sightings, One Star Presse (2011) Naked Eye, with Kenneth Goldsmith, Free Association (2009)