Baker Artist Portfolios

I make drawings and large, site specific installations which are also drawings. The former ink and water media works  often begin as anecdotal moments either recorded or observed as I explore the city around me, and frequently evolve to enfold idiosyncratic personal iconography that emphasizes the darkly comic and absurd. The latter are motivated by similar concerns. They are (usually) composed of hundreds of quick, gestural acrylic and flashe paint sketches made with a fat brush that are then cut and collaged onto both built armatures and the existing surfaces of a space; these are sometimes further animated with embedded lighting. The effect is somewhere between a comic book and a stage set. 

My work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions worldwide; some notable venues include the Walters Museum of Art, the Volta Art Fair (Basel, Switzerland), the Berman Museum of Art, the Delaware Contemporary, the Arlington Contemporary, the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Phillips Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, Artisphere, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, the Cranbrook Institute of Art, Benrimon Contemporary (NYC), Bridge Gallery (NYC), Christina Ray Gallery (NYC), Dorsch Gallery (Miami) and GV/AS Gallery (Brooklyn, NY).

I was the 2025 Sondheim Prize Winner, a 2014 Rubys Artist Grant winner, a 2014 Creative Baltimore Mayor's Artist Award winner, and I've been a five time recipient of Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Art Council. I have been artist in residence at the Embassy of Foreign Artists (Geneva, Switzerland), the Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, China), and Paper Machine (New Orleans, LA). My artist book "Quorum Call", was published by Antenna Press in 2018; another self published artist book, "Rage Faces" is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Artist Books collection of the New York Public Library. 

I hold BA and MFA degrees from Harvard College and the Yale University School of Art (respectively) and am a Professor of Art at Towson University.