| Brett Baker b. 1973 |
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| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2022 | Profusion, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York |
| 2020 | The Beauty at Hand, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York |
| 2018 | New Paintings, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York |
| 2016 | Brett Baker, Bottle Rocket, Fayetteville, AR |
| 2015 | Recent Paintings, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2013 | Paintings, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
| Brett Baker, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC | |
| 2008 | "Brett Baker", Simon Gallery, NJ |
| "Paintings by Brett Baker", Socony Mobil Building, New York, NY, curated by Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts |
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| "Forms of Face: Recent Small Paintings",The Painting Center, New York, NY |
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| 2007 | "Facing Color: New Paintings", St. Mary's College of Maryland, MD |
| "Time & Text", Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL | |
| "Time & Text", Ossia Fine Arts Space, Chicago, IL | |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Varied State: Diverse Work by 6 North Carolina Artists, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA |
| Low Light: Brett Baker & Jay Gould, Exeter Gallery, Baltimore, MD | |
| 2018 | Bevel: paintings by Brett Baker, Casey Matthews, and Douglas Witmer, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| Art at Kings Oaks, Newtown, PA | |
| Of Weight and Breath: paintings by Brett Baker, Susanna Coffey, Clare Grill, and Ellen Siebers, ESPS: East Side Project Space, Nashville, TN |
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| 2017 | New Gallery/New Work, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York |
| 2015 | Colored Mud, Fenway Studios, Boston, MA |
| Two Abstract Painters: Graham Auman and Brett Baker, Ravenscroft School, Raleigh, NC | |
| 2013 | Independents, Green Hill Art Center, Greensboro, NC |
| TINY: Attention, Exploded, The Carrack, Durham, NC | |
| 2012 | Heroes, Small Black Door, Queens, NY |
| 2011 | "Printed, Painted, Pressed", C2 Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL |
| 2010 | "Artists Invite Artists: Small Works", The Painting Center, NY |
| "New Walls/Fresh Paint", The Painting Center, NY | |
| 2009 | "Intimate Frontiers", Richard Stockton College Art Gallery, NJ |
| "Placing Color: Paintings by Brett Baker, Kayla Mohammadi, and Carrie Patterson", Winona State University, MN (September ), Boston University, MA (April 2009), The Painting Center, NY (May 2009), St. Mary's College, MD (January-February 2009) |
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| 2008 | "Placing Color: Paintings by Brett Baker, Kayla Mohammadi, and Carrie Patterson", Bristol Community College, MA (Septemer 2008) |
| "Peace Sideshow Gallery", Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2007 | "War is Over", Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2006 | "13th Anniversary Show", The Painting Center, New York, NY |
| 2004 | "Nature Astracted", The Painting Center, New York, NY |
| 2002 | "Award Winning Alumni 1995-2002:Guggenheim, Dedalus, Starr", Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA |
| 2000 | "Fine Arts Downtown 2000", New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA |
| 1999 | "Contemporary Painting '99,"Juror: Andrew Forge, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT |
| "Young Masters: Recent Graduates from Boston University and Yale", Glass Mountain Gallery, Bantam, CT |
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| New Models, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA , (catalogue) | |
| 1998 | "National Competition", Juror: John Walker, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY |
"Emerging Boston Artists", Juror: Carl Belz, Dante Alighieri Society, |
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"New Romantics", Gallery 855, Boston University, Boston, MA |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY / VIDEO | |
| 2016 | Parks, Addison, "Brett Baker: Forest and the Trees," Artdeal Magazine, April 17 |
| Henriksen, Katy, "A Painter Finds Space in Smaller," KUAF Arts Beat, February 26 | |
| 2015 | Perl, Jed, "The Perils of Painting Now", The New York Review of Books, September 24 |
| Emba, Christine, "Brett Baker: Recent Paintings," Critic's Notebook, February 23 | |
| Butler, Sharon "Small work: Brett Baker @ Elizabeth Harris," Two Coats of Paint, February 20 | |
| 2013 | Mattera, Joanne, "Brett Baker", joannemattera.blogspot.com, March |
Panero, James, "Gallery Chronicle", newcriterion.com, February |
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| Butler, Sharon, "Thin and Thick: Mario and Brett Baker", twocoatsofpaint.com, January |
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| Joy, Christopher and Keeting, Zachary, "Video Interview with Brett Baker," Gorky's Granddaughter |
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| 2011 | Brennan, Valerie, Interview with Brett Baker, Studio Critical |
| 2009 | McCann, Margaret, "Intimate Frontiers," Richard Stockton College, NJ |
| Goodrich, John, "Placing Color", New York Press, May 15 | |
| 2008 | Colaizzi, Vittorio, "Placing Color", catalogue essay |
| 2007 | "Four Drawings by Brett Baker", LIT, The Creative Writing Journal of The New School |
| "Art, music, and language mingle at the Ossia Fine Arts Space", Lisbeth Redfield, Chicago |
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| Maroon, The University of Chicago, October 26 | |
| AWARDS | |
| 2002 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
| 1999 | Juror's Prize, Contemporary Painting '99, Juror: Andrew Forge |
| 1997-99 | Constantin Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University |
| 1995 | Purchase Award, President's Collection, College of William and Mary |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| 2011-2012 | Contributing Writer, Aeqai, aeqai.com |
| 2010-2012 | Writer and Editor, Painters' Table, painterstable.com |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1999 | M.F.A., Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA |
| 1997 | Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Painting, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
| 1995 | B.A., Fine Arts, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA |