Baker Artist Portfolios

Andersen Woof (b. 1989) is a Chinese American painter who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. Originally trained in landscape architecture (RISD), Andersen seeks ambiguous narratives that reflect the complexity and absurdity of the human condition through the lens of his own queer and immigrant life. His work has been exhibited at Semiose Gallery (Paris, France), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Fortnight Institute (New York, NY), CPM Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Vardan Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Acappella Gallery (Naples, Italy), and more. Andersen is a grant finalist of the Hopper Prize, two-time semifinalist of the Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize, and his work has been featured in New American Paintings, Platform (by David Zwirner Gallery), Art Verge, Art Viewer, ArtMaze Magazine, Booooooom, Connaissance des Arts, The Steidz, Baltimore Fishbowl, The AIDS Memorial, and Mepaintsme, among others. He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship for his artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT).

"My work centers on fictional and semi-autobiographical narratives of queer resilience and resistance, shaped by research into queer history, mysticism, religious art, philosophy, psychology, and my experience as a queer immigrant in the United States. I explore intimacy and brotherhood alongside loneliness, violence, and vulnerability, as well as the emotional tension between my past life in China and my present life in the U.S., informed by an ongoing preoccupation with death and rebirth/afterlife, pain and pleasure."