About Ian Bloom

Ian Bloom (born February 15, 1990, in Hollywood, Los Angeles) is an American artist working across music, film, literature, painting, photography, design, and acting.

Bloom was raised in Los Angeles, in a family whose background connects New York and Japan, and formed between them and Europe — Italy, France, Switzerland. He developed early interests in mythology, Renaissance art, architecture, cinema, literature, and aesthetics. He attended Chaminade College Preparatory and was named a National Merit Commended Scholar. At sixteen he studied Art History and Narrative Film at Columbia University, and at seventeen he studied American Political Science and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He later studied at the New York University Stern School of Business. In New York he worked at Black Frame across art publications, fashion, presentations, jewelry, and image assets. His subsequent formation included acting study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, work in television production and finance, accounting and tax, computer science, drawing, art history, and languages. He qualified as a California certified public accountant and passed CFA Level I, the Securities Industry Essentials examination, and the Series 66 examination.

Writing is the origin of Bloom’s catalogue. He wrote The Western Road at twenty-one and Screwdriver at twenty-three, and is the author of sixteen books spanning fiction, screenplays, interviews, poetry, and philosophical prose. Screwdriver was first published in paperback in 2016; the present hardcover catalogue is issued through Natural Press.

Bloom writes, directs, produces, photographs, and performs in his own films. Driver is a twenty-three-minute short released in 2016. Star Vehicle is an eighty-two-minute 2025 feature, in which he performs the dual leading roles of the Star and the Suit. King is a sixty-five-minute dialogue-free 2026 feature in which he plays an art dealer. Big Time, a one-man New York feature built around his performance as the Gangster, is in post-production. The films are produced under Natural Pictures.

Bloom writes, performs, produces, arranges, and records his own music. His recording catalogue comprises seven albums. Swagger was released through Natural Archive in 2025; the remaining six are unreleased.

His visual-art catalogue comprises nine paintings and five photographs made between 2008 and 2022 in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Paris.

After Duchamp, the artwork no longer ends at the object. Ian Bloom takes that condition as a point of departure and extends it through total authorship: film, recorded music, literature, painting, photography, performance, design, and objects conceived as one continuous cultural practice.

Production, persona, publication, editioning, documentation, commerce, distribution, archive, and institutional framing are not support structures around the work; they are among its materials. Money and power are not concealed as external forces. They are made visible—and authored—within the work.

Each artifact stands on its own. Together, they form the larger work: a life organized as cultural form.

The dated record — birth and formation, and every work made from 2008 to the present — is kept as a separate page.