Aaron Blum
Interim Photography Technician & Adjunct Instructor
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Aaron Blum is an eighth generation West Virginian, and creates art deeply linked to his home and identity. Most of his work centers around a single question: What does it mean to be Appalachian? Through this question he addresses many different artistic concepts such as idealized memory, stereotypes, and folk taxonomy. His creation process is a diversified approach of image-based media that creates a glimpse into his own concepts of identity, memory, and existence. After graduating with degrees in photography from West Virginia University and Syracuse University, he began teaching in Pittsburgh and has shown his work nationally and internationally and has received awards from the Center of Santa Fe, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Critical Mass, FOAM, the Photographic Resource Center, Boston and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, and Duke Center for Documentary Studies.
Aaron Blum, Appalachian Woman #17, 2019.