Appelbaum holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Chicago. He has worked with Harper’s Bazaar, Serpentine Gallery, ASICS, Marian Goodman Gallery, Elle, Tony Cragg, The Broad Museum, FGP Atelier, Museum of the African Diaspora, Heidi Klum, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, InStyle, Critical Inquiry, the Kunstmuseum Bern, Grazia, Snoop Dogg, Adam McKay’s Yellow Dot Studios, MAK Center for Art and Architecture,The Jewish Federation, Zión Moreno, Petzel Gallery, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Nato Thompson’s The Alternative Art School and Dreaming in Public, Perry Ellis, The Visionaries Agency, Atlanta Art Fair, Mick Jenkins, TRANSFER Gallery, Ann Hamilton, The Columbus Museum of Art, de Sarthe Gallery, TCAmgmt, Diego Boneta, Rocco Castoro’s SCNR, L’Officiel, Hirmer Verlag, Kids of Immigrants, Natalia Reyes, Vogue, The Singapore Art Museum, Numéro, and Pope.L.