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About the Artist

Schaun Champion is an artist-photographer, director of photography and instructor specializing in natural light, portraiture, fine art and cultural documentary/archival work. Using both digital and analog cameras, she creates intentionally cinematic and honest imagery. Inspired by classic films, music and all things vintage; her intention is to use themes of nature, diversity and nostalgia to illustrate the drama within the familiar.

She has worked with Oscar-nominated cinematographer, Bradford Young and visual installation artists like Sir Issac Julien of the Royal Academy. Her subjects have included fashion designer, Bishme Cromartie, actors like André Holland, writers and directors such as Radha Blank, independent/grammy winning musicians like Pink Siifu, as well as friends, family, and people she meets from around the world.

Schaun’s work is in both public and private collections in several countries. She has exhibited her work internationally through museums and galleries such as the Barnes Foundation, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Arts, Antipode Gallery of Marseille, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Germany Architecture Museum), Eubie Blake Cultural Center, Washington Project for the Arts and Latela Curatorial.

Her work has been featured internationally through Adobe and publications/networks such as Cultured Magazine, NBC, People Magazine, The New York Times, HBO, NPR, Allure Magazine, Essence Magazine, American Cinematographer Magazine, Rouleur Magazine, Baltimore Magazine, Bloomberg Markets, The Washington Post, BmoreArt, Kinfolk, The Afro, BUST Magazine, Roc Nation, i-D Magazine and more.

EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

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:

May 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:

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:

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:

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:

Awesome Baltimore Foundation

Black Women Photographers

Diversify Photo

Authority Collective

EDITOR / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER:

Former Baltimore Beat / Director of Photography

Founder & Creative Director / Opal Lens Studio, LLC

Founder & Director / A Looking Glass Project Youth Programing