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About the Artist

Schaun Champion is a multidisciplinary visual artist, director of photography, and educator whose practice spans digital and analog image-making. Drawn to phenomena, mythology, and the stories humans construct to understand their world, she works across portraiture, fine art, and cultural documentary and archival forms to create imagery that is both cinematic and deeply intimate. Influenced by classic film, music, the natural world, and a sense of nostalgia, Champion illuminates the quiet drama embedded in the familiar.

At the heart of her work is an inquiry into interconnectedness — between the environment, the human gaze, and the layered visual narratives that shape collective memory. Through still and moving vignettes of unhurried moments, she invites reflection on terms like "re-memory": the personal and communal act of recalling and remaking history. Champion is captivated by the ways living subjects — not always human, but always shaped by human presence — navigate their relationship to the natural world, asking: What does it mean to be IN nature? And further: how might someone with no access to prior mythology or ideology make meaning of their circumstances, their home?

Champion has worked alongside Oscar-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young and visual installation artist Sir Isaac Julien of the Royal Academy. Her subjects have included fashion designer Bishme Cromartie, actor André Holland, poet and National Book Award winner Nikki Giovanni, Grammy-nominated musician Pink Siifu, and a wide range of individuals she has encountered across the globe.

Her work is held in public and private collections in multiple countries and has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Barnes Foundation, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, the National Aquarium, Galerie Myrtis, the Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Washington Project for the Arts, Antipode Gallery (Marseille), Deutsches Architekturmuseum, and TENT Rotterdam.

Champion's work has been featured by Adobe and recognized in publications and media platforms including The New York Times, People Magazine, Cultured, Atmos, Allure, Essence, American Cinematographer, i-D, Kinfolk, Rouleur, Baltimore Magazine, BmoreArt, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, NBC, HBO, NPR, the National Wildlife Federation, and various scientific journals, among others.

EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

July 2025 - “Myths We Tell Ourselves” - // Gallery CA - Baltimore, MD

January 2025 - Winter Showcase ft. A Black Bouquet - The Park School - Baltimore, MD

August 2024 - “We Who Believe In Freedom” - Decker Gallery / MICA/ Artscape - Baltimore, MD

July 2024 - “Braided Streams & Dreams” // National Aquarium - Baltimore, MD

March 2023 - “World of My Own” // Promo Seltzer Art Tower - Baltimore, MD

October 2022 - “Monuments and Black Bouquets” // Silva Gallery x Latela Curatorial, Washington, D.C.

May 2021 - “A Black Bouquet”: The Love Letters // Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD

2018 - “City Sunflowers” // Baltimore, MD

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

October 2025 - “Walking Together” - Notre Dame of Maryland University // Baltimore, MD

May 2025 - “Emergence: Stories in the Making” - Galerie Myrtis // Baltimore, MD

March 2025 - “Walk on By” - TENT // Rotterdam, Netherlands

December 2024 - “Walk on By” - Creative Alliance // Baltimore, MD

April 2024 - “In A Moment of Tenderness” // MLK Library - Washington DC

February 2024 - “Blackness in Bloom” // Anne Arundel Community College // Anne Arundel, MD

April 2023 - “Bodies We Inhabit” // NARS Foundation - New York, NY

March 2023 - “Emerge Baltimore” // BOPA / Bromo Setlzer Arts Tower - Baltimore, MD

November 2021 - Women in the Arts: UMBRELLA // No Kings Collective/Latela Curatorial - Washington, DC

May 2021 - “Am I Altering Your Aura?”, Washington Project for the Arts // Artsy

March 2021 - “Bodies We Inhabit” , Latela Curatorial // Artsy

June 2020 - “Black Gaze Matter”, Antipode Gallery, Marseille, France

February 2020 - “THIN SPACES: The Invisible Work of Black Women” // James E. Lewis Museum of Art

August 2020 - “VIOLET TORNADO: Black Women - Beauty and Power” // Baltimore Museum of Art / Black Arts District

CURATED EXHIBITIONS:

2025 - “Through Our Eyes” Teen Photographers // Walters Art Museum - Baltimore, MD

2021 - “A Black Bouquet” // Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Baltimore, MD

2021 - “Through Their Eyes” // James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

2019 - “This Is Me”, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

CONTRIBUTING EXHIBITIONS / VIDEO INSTALLATIONS

June 2022 - “Once Again…Statues Never Die” - Sir Isaac Julien // Philadelphia, PA

September 2022 - “ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE: Building Upon the Existing” - Deutsches Architekturmuseum // Frankfurt, Germany

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES:

2025 - Residency / Oak Spring Garden Foundation

2024 - Residency / Voyages: National Aquarium- Braided Streams & Dreams

2023 - Best of Baltimore / Portraitist - Baltimore Magazine

2021 - Baltimore Black-led Solidarity Fund Grant

2020 - Best of Baltimore / Photography - Baltimore Magazine

2020 - Unvael BIPOC Artist & Poet Grant

2020 - Awesome Baltimore Grant

2018 - Sunspot Studio Artist Residency

ARTIST TALKS / STUDIO VISITS:

“Art for the sake of Science” - Virginia Tech, USA, Winter 2026

“Walk on By” - TENT Rotterdam, NL , Spring 2025

Wideangle Youth Media - Summer 2024

Black Spaces in Architecture - Columbia University - Summer 2023

Baltimore School for the Arts - Fall 2022

Stevenson University - Spring 2022

“Bodies We Inhabit” - Latela Curatorial - April 2021

Joshua Johnson Council /Baltimore Museum of Art - March 2021

BOARDS / COLLECTIVES / FOUNDATIONS / ORGS:

Joshua Johnson Council - Baltimore Museum of Art

Awesome Foundation: Baltimore Chapter

Black Women Photographers

Diversify Photo

Authority Collective