Rachel Baum

Rachel Baum, PhD
Assistant Professor
212 217.4647
rachel_baum@fitnyc.edu  

Dr. Baum has been a member of the department since 2012. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary art, new media, and cultural and critical theory. Dr. Baum teaches subjects across many fields and periods, with an emphasis on social history, politics and identity. Dr. Baum publishes frequently in the international art journal Camera Austria and has contributed to several books, including volumes on Andy Warhol, contemporary Los Angeles artist Daniel Joseph Martinez and Korean digital artist Kim Joon. Dr. Baum is completing a book on Andy Warhol’s early silkscreen paintings titled Andy Warhol and the Subject of the Modern. In addition to this project, her current research focuses on the changing relationship between new image technologies and traditional artistic media.

Education

BA, Bryn Mawr College
Fellow, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in Critical Studies
PhD, Harvard University

Selected Recent Publications

“Archival Quality: On Sherrie Levine in Retrospect” caa.reviews, College Art Association web journal (2012)

“Proof of Life: Photography and Performance” Camera Austria (no. 114/2011)

“Women’s Work” Camera Austria (no. 113/2011)

“Skinning: The Art of Kim Joon” Catalog: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY (2010)

“Hiroshi Senju’s Alternative Materialism” in Hiroshi Senju (Skira, 2009) ISBN-10: 8861307973

“Daniel Joseph Martinez and the White Wall/Black Hole System” in Daniel Joseph Martinez: A Life of Disobedience (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009) ISBN-10: 3775723056

“The Mirror of Consumption” in Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol (Skira, 2009) ISBN-10: 8861308007

Courses

HA 111
HA 112
HA 214
HA 231
HA 331