Evan Baden
Fairbanks Hall 322
220 NW 26th Street
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States
Evan Baden earned his MFA from Columbia College in Chicago in 2014.
His bodies of work include The Illuminati, Technically Intimate, Under the Influence, A Conversão de São Paulo, and The Taradiddle High School Yearbook Project, 2014-15. They have been widely exhibited internationally with museums and galleries throughout Europe and the United States.
His work is held in public collections such as the Walker Art Center, Milwaukee Art Museum, FOAM Amsterdam, the Finnish Museum of Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Kinsey Institute.
His work has been featured in numerous publications including TIME, The Guardian, FOAM, New York Magazine, Le Monde, D della Republica, Geo, and DIE ZEIT.
He has been the recipient of the Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists, the Stuart Abelson Graduate Research Fellowship, and Artist in Residence at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. He has been a finalist for the Outwin-Boochever Portrait Competition, McKnight Fellowship for Photography as well as nominated for the Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers and the PDN 30.
MFA – Columbia College Chicago – 2014
BFA – College of Visual Arts – 2007
Beginning Digital Photography
Introduction to Studio Lighting
Advanced Lighting
Documentary Photography
The Photographic Book
The work that I make is always centered around the American teenager and the culture that they inhabit.My interests revolve around young people because they embody change, living in a mindset where identity has not yet adhered itself to their persons. They can adopt any identity they choose and, just as quickly, disregard it for something new. The ways young people alter themselves and the world around them has a lasting effect on every aspect of the culture they exist in. I strive to provoke the viewer to consider the ramifications of these changes, heralded by the young people that inhabit my images.