Charles Logasa was born in Davenport, Iowa, United States, on July 14, 1883, to Sephardic Jewish parents and Ukrainian immigrants.
In 1913 he took a year's leave of absence from his duties as topographic draftsman for the United States Geological Survey and went to Paris where he entered the Académie Julian studying under Paul Laurens.
While he was a student, he rented a studio at 1421 F Street where, in 1916, he exhibited a selection of works from the Armory Show (1913), introducing Washington D.C. to the new abstraction being made in Europe.
When Joaquín Torres García returned to Europe from New York City in 1924 and gave up his art, Logasa was able to convince him to start working again.
[4] A foreword he composed after a Mexican stay in Old Monterrey in 1936 reveals a wry humor not often seen in his painting.
On April 2, 1930, he was listed on the United States Federal Census as living in a hotel on 7th Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan.
In 1932 he was represented in the Pennsylvania Annual Academy and in the Whitney Museum Biennial of American Art.