About

Jane Bauman was born in Burbank California and considers growing up in the Los Angeles area to be a formative influence. Surf culture, the hippie movement, psychedelic music and Hollywood were all there and combined to make for a provocative environment.

After graduating from Santa Clara University Bauman went to graduate school at the San Francisco Art Institute where she became an active participant in the punk/no wave culture of the late 1970s and began to do her first street art as well as making paintings and sculpture. This was also when she began to do collaborative work with fellow artists Jack Johnston and Mark C.

After graduate school in 1980 Bauman moved to NYC and became a part of the East Village Art Scene where she was represented by Civilian Warfare Gallery. In addition to showing her work extensively in NY and Western Europe, she continued to do collaborations with David Wojnarwicz, Huck Snyder, Paul Benney and Mark C. including extensive work at Pier 34.

In 1989 she moved back to Southern California and became a Fine Arts Professor at Coastline College in Orange County. From 2003 - 2013 she taught six Study Abroad Programs in Florence, Italy which had a big impact on her art. She has been represented in California by Terrain Gallery, Brett Rubico Gallery, Jamie Brooks Fine Arts and Scape Gallery. Despoina Damaskou represents her in Athens, Greece. Her work has garnered significant recognition and is in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt Museum of American Art (NYC), the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (NYC), Historisches Museum Saar (Saarbrucken, Germany) and the Musée de Cloitre des Cordeliers (Paris, France). Her recent art projects include an illumination of Dante’s Divine Comedy and Florabau, a mixed media body of work about the Southern California environment, water and desire.

Contact: janebauman@verizon.net

Instagram: @janemagdalenabauman