Ella Baum is a photographer, writer and educator. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025, and her Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Vassar College in 2020. She has taught at Brown University, RISD, FIT, the International Center of Photography, ICP at The Point and the Penumbra Foundation. Ella has curated and exhibited photographic work at the Penumbra Foundation, Candela Books + Gallery, BAU Gallery, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Sol Koffler Gallery, Red Eye Gallery and Woods-Gerry Gallery. She is a native New Yorker, and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Sweden.
EDUCATION
2023-2025
2016-2020
Fall 2018
2014-2015
Rhode Island School of Design, Masters of Fine Arts, RI
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, Bachelor of Arts, NY
SACI (Studio Arts College International), Florence, Italy
NYU Tisch School of The Arts, Future Imagemakers Program, NY
EXHIBITED / CURATED
2025
2025
2024
2024
2024
2024
2023
2023
2023
2023
2019
2019
2018
2018
“Lucid Dreams”, Penumbra Gallery, NY
RISD Grad Show, Providence Convention Center, Providence, RI
Sol Koffler Gallery, “Coalesce: Happenstance”, Providence, RI
The Curated Fridge, “Unbound 13”, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA
Sol Koffler Gallery, “home/world”, RISD Graduate Biennial, Providence, RI
Red Eye Gallery, “The Unspeakable State”, RISD, Providence, RI
University of Montana, “Daydreams”, MFA Online Exhibition, Missoula, MT
Woods-Gerry Gallery, “I Dreamed, I Dream”, RISD, Providence, RI
Red Eye Gallery, “Palimpsest”, RISD, Providence, RI
BAU Gallery, “Transliterations”, Solo Show, Beacon, NY
BAU Gallery, “Photography in Phocus”, Group Exhibition, Beacon, NY
Saci Gallery, Palazzo Dei Cartelloni, Florence, Italy
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, “Light in Phocus”, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025
2025
2024-2025
2023-2024
2023-2024
2016-2020
Anderson Ranch Scholarship, Snowmass, CO
SWEA Grant, Swedish Women’s Educational Association
T.C. Colley Scholarship for Excellence In Photography, RISD, Providence, RI
Crafoord Foundation Award, Sweden
Sheila Cobb Ewing Fellowship, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, RI
Margaret Pope Trask Endowment Fund, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, RI