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Caroline Blum

San Mateo, California
Lives and works in New York, NY

University of California at Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Fine Art, Santa Cruz, CA

New York Studio School, New York City

AWARDS

Mercedes Matter Award, New York Studio School

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Coast to Coast, Rhoda Goldman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Echos of the Wild, Savage Wonderground Gallery, Beacon, NY

Kaleidoscope, Savage Wonderground Gallery, Beacon, NY

Creator, Educator, Basis School, New York, NY

2024

Drawing Now 2024, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

California Dreaming, Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA

Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, Barry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY

2023

Inimitable, Project Gallery V, New York, NY

Other Worldly, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2023 Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School

The Drawing Stall Fair, Brooklyn, NY

2022

The Painting Center, New York, NY

72nd A-ONE, The Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

The 2022 Flag Project, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY

Group Exhibition, New York Studio School

2021

Play + Inspire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Counterbalance, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY

Darkest Before Dawn, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY

2020

New York Studio School and Friends

Respite + Renewal, Susan Eley FIne Art

2019

Off the Grid, Susan Eley Fine Art

New Land, Contemporary Arts, Bedford, NJ.

Caroline Blum and Melinda Hackett, John Molloy Gallery, New York, NY

2018

The Possibilities of Line, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

Group Exhibition, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY

2017

True Believers, David & Schweitzer, Brooklyn, NY

Black Box, Boeker Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Natura Mathematica, Central Booking, New York, NY

Driven to Abstraction, Susan Eley Fine Art

2016

Elements, Lotus Garden, Curator, New York, NY

Going Big, Central Booking, New York, NY

Working Artists, Academic Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Postcards From the Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY,

2015

Magical Events, Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf, NY

Group Exhibition, Edward Hopper House, Tarrytown, NY

2014

Cryptographics, EXPO, Chicago, Chicago, IL

I Have a Dream, Alexis Grady Gallery, New York, NY

100 Artists, 100 Watercolors, Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New York, NY

Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY

The Art is in the Mail, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH

War Bulletin Board, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY,

Group Exhibition, Parish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY

PRESS

Messino, Gaby. (2025) Caroline Blum is Going Bicoastal, (arts.ucsc.edu) March 17, 2025

The Possibilities of Line, Mathematical Art, McKenzie Fine Art, July 2018

Gleisner, Jacquelyn, Mighty Mini's, Art New England March April 2018

Saltz, Jerry, Et tu, Arte Brute? New York Magazine, December 2017

Eckhardt Kohler, William, True Believers, Two Coats of Paint, September 22, 2017

Ghosh, Sarboni, Feminist Shows to See in Honor of Women's History Month, Artnet, March 2017

Wall Street International Art Magazine, Driven to Abstraction, April 2017

Mattera, Joanne, Going Big, Blog, 2015

Sorgatz, Mike, Caroline Blum, Blog, 2008

PROJECTS

Cover art, UWADE MUSIC

Earth Day Flag Project, Rockefeller Center

Off the Grid + Driven to Abstraction, SEFA, NY

SHORT VIDEO

Coming up Slowly: Caroline Blum, Director: Anne Saint Pierre

Bloomingdale Family Pogam: Director: Laura Dwight

COLLECTIONS

Blossom Industries, Cleveland, OH

Deborah Marcus and Tom Cross, San Mateo, CA

Emily Reaman Family Collection, San Rafael, CA

Jeannie Freilich, New York, NY

KB & Associates, San Francisco, CA

Peter Surace Collection, Rego Park, NY

Robert Moon Collection, London,, GB

Ronnie and William Feldman, San Rafael, CA

St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY

Steven Sugarman, Santa Cruz, CA

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Twentieth Century Fox Television, Modern Family, Los Angeles, CA

Caroline Blum is an artist who makes drawings, paintings and wire sculptures. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and her artwork reflects the vibrant lights and colors that were around her in the city. She met Ruth Asawa in San Francisco when she was young and Asawa had a big influence on her as she became an artist. Asawa said besides making art, to contribute to the health of your community through your art.

Caroline received her BA in Fine Art from the University of California Santa Cruz. She studied painting at the New York Studio School in New York City where she recently received the Mercedes Matter Award. The artist has participated in numerous group exhibitions including those at McKenzie Fine Art, New York, Barry Campbell, New York, The Painting Center, New York, Silvermine Gallery, Connecticut, Dorato 806 Projects, California, The Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Connecticut, and Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, where she curated exhibitions including Driven to Abstraction and Off the Grid. She designed the cover art for musician Uwade's latest EP and her painting Garden Gate was made into a flag for Earth Day at Rockefeller Center. She has taught art for children at public and private schools in New York City. In addition to her artistic pursuits, she taught and coached Swimming at Columbia University, and has two adult children.

Her works are in numerous private collections including the Peter Surace Collection, Rego Park, NY, Emily Reaman Family Collection, San Rafael, CA, Blossom Industries, Cleveland, OH, Georgina Berkman Collection, Queensland, Australia and Robert Moon, London, England. In the summer of 2025 Caroline will be working on two murals for Monte Mar Murals.

She lives and works in New York, NY.