Contributor, Los Angeles

Saul Appelbaum is a Los Angeles–based artist, curator, media director, producer, and digital strategist whose work blends storytelling, design, architectonic thinking, and media to build new infrastructures for cultural collaboration. As Founding Director of The Pioneers, a media company and “co-op of gifted and generous minds” advancing Agile Cinema®, a hybrid mode of agile production, he leads experiments in multichannel narrative, including Narrative Fieldwork for institutions such as The Broad Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Marian Goodman Gallery, and Petzel Gallery. He also serves in leadership roles at Dreaming in Public, Rusha & Co., Curator, and ENSO Law, working fluidly across curatorial, editorial, and strategic contexts. His collaborations span publications, museums, brands, agencies, and artists, from Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and Hirmer Verlag to the Museum of the African Diaspora, Perry Ellis, ASICS, and figures such as Ann Hamilton, Mick Jenkins, Snoop Dogg, Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios, and Pope.L. Appelbaum holds degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cornell University, and the University of Chicago, and works internationally.