Baker Artist Portfolios

Charles Mason III (Baltimore, MD) received his AA degree from CCBC, BFA from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and MFA in Studio Art from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), 2019. He has also curated several shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia as well as had solo shows which include Screaming in Silence, My Salvation is Love (The End), at Anna Zorina Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022, Goya Contemporary Gallery Baltimore, MD, 2023 and 2021, and Spillway Collective, Philadelphia, PA, 2019. He has participated in group exhibitions, Creative Alliance, TENT Rotterdam, & Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City, Walk On By, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024-25, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, co-organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) 2023-25, This Too Shall Pass, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY, 2023, The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD, 2022, Surface is only a Material Vehicle for Spirit, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2021 and Radical Reading Room, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY, 2019, to name a few. He has work in the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, the Whitney Museum of American Art Special Collections, New York, NY, the Hammer Museum Grunwald Center Collection, Los Angeles, CA and the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, he is also one of 30 artists who was featured in CULTURED Magazines 9th annual young artists lists, 2024.