Teresa Baker

Mandan/Hidatsa

b. 1985, Watford City, ND


Education

2013 MFA, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 BA, Visual Arts, Fordham University, New York, NY
2006 Painting and Drawing Intensive, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Solo Exhibitions

2023 From Joy to Joy to Joy, de boer, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Time To Be Still, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY

2022 Capturing Space, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2021 Capturing Space, Pied-a-terre, San Francisco, CA

2021 Pulling Up The Prairie, De Boer Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA

2019 Out West, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA

2018 Return,  Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX

2017 joining, The Art Studio, Inc., Beaumont, TX

2016     shape, line, what the eye is doing, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

2016     Escape Here, Interim, San Francisco, CA

2014 Tournesol Exhibition, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA


Group Exhibitions

2023 Made In LA: Acts Of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2023 Sun Drinks White, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS

2023 What’s that about, Anthony Meier, Mill Valley, CA

2022 Ecstatic Land, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

2022 The Potential of Objects, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA

2022 Raise High The Roof Beam, Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, CA

2022 Living Land, Carol Shen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Last Truth of the New, De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Some Glimpse of Life, Montserrat Galleries, Beverly, MA

2019 Park, Public Address, Brooklyn, NY

2016 Non Atomic, curated by Jenny Monick and Dana Frankfort, 215 Orleans, Beaumont, TX

2015 Teresa Baker-Jenny Monick, Kiria Koula, San Francisco, CA

2015     A Story In My Pocket, with Yevgeniya Baras, The Alice, Seattle, WA

2015     Almost (   ) Is, with Jaimie Healy, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA 

2014     The Presence of the Present: Teresa Baker, Liam Everett, Leslie Shows, di Rosa, Napa, CA 

2014     Bay Area Now 7, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, (exhibiting with Pied-à-terre)

2013 Heightened Subjectivity, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 New New Works, Curated by Aaron Harbour,  Interface Gallery, Oakland 

2013      Murphy & Cadogan Art Awards, Delta Center For The Arts, San Joaquin, CA

2012 Murphy & Cadogan Art Awards, SOMAarts, San Francisco, CA
2012 John Baldessari: Class Assignments, (Optional), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 

  San Francisco, CA 

2012      Outoboros, CCA Writer’s Studio, San Francisco, CA


Awards/ Residencies 

2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow

2022 Fogo Islands Arts’, Artist in Residence, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

2020 Ucross Foundation, Native American Fellowship, Ucross, WY

2015 MacDowell, Artist in Residence, Peterborough, NH

2014/15 Headlands Center for the Arts, Affiliate Artist in Residence, SF, CA

2013/14 Tournesol Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, SF, CA

2012 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award: San Francisco, CA
2012 Center for Art and Public Life Social Impact Grant: Kivalina, AK 

2008 James Storey Visual Arts Award: Fordham University


Other Projects

2020 Published, Bougainvillea Pink, with SFMOMA Open Space

2018 Published, Sego Lily, with SFMOMA Open Space


Invitational/Conference

2012 “True North,” Presented KVAKTV project at the Anchorage Museum symposium, Anchorage, AK


Bibliography

2023 "Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living" Review: Hitching a Ride with California Artists" Peter Plagens, Wall Street Journal Online, November 1, 2023

2023   "Review: Art made during — and despite — the pandemic informs the Hammer’s ‘Made in L.A.’ 2023 biennial,”  Christopher Knight, LA Times Online, October 3, 2023

2023    "The Made in LA Biennial Is All About Diaspora," Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic Online, October 3, 2023 

2023     "TERESA BAKER'S "FROM JOY TO JOY TO JOY" RECONTEXTUALIZES TRADITIONAL MATERIALS WITH MODERN DISCOURSE," Tara Anne Dalbow, Autre Magazine Online, October 3, 2023

2023    “The Poetry of Place in Teresa Baker’s Art,” Alex Paik, Hyperallergic Online, September 27, 2023

2023   “Teresa Baker’s Brightly-Painted AstroTurf Wall Pieces Honor the “Beautiful Open Spaces” of Her Youth Spent on the Northern Plains,”  Maximilíano Durón, ArtNews.com/Art in America, July 24, 2023

2023   "In the Studio: Teresa Baker," Jenny Gill, Joan Mitchell Foundation Online Journal, May 15,  2023

2023 Durón, Maximilíano, “New Talent,” Art In America, Summer 2023, pp. 89

2022    “The Class of 2022: Meet 6 Fast-Rising Artists Having Star Turns at This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach,” Eileen Kinsella, Artnet News Online, November 29, 2022

2022    “Teresa Baker weaves visual autofiction with willow, yarn, and astroturf,” Summer Bowie, Autre Online, November 30, 2022

2022     “Astroturf and Nostalgia are on display at the 20th Edition of NADA Miami,” Rachel Summer Small, Cultured Online, December 1, 2022

2022     “Interview with Lee Maxey,” Clare Gemima, WhiteHot Magazine Online, December 2022

2022 “The Potential of Objects @ Marin Moca”, Kristen Wawruck, Square Cylinder Online, May 20, 2022

2021     Hopinka, Sky, “Top Ten Highlights of 2021”, Artforum, December 2021, Vol. 60 No. 4, pp.157

2019     “Fall Arts Guide 2019: Come Together at These 10 Visual Arts Events,” Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED                                                                Online, August 27

2022 “The Class of 2022: Meet 6 Fast-Rising Artists Having Star Turns at This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach,” Eileen Kinsella, Artnet News Online, November 29, 2022

2015  “Teresa Baker and Jenny Monick,” Leora Lutz, Art Practical Online, April 21

2015     “Frames, Felt and Speculative Fiction at Kiria koula,” Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED Online, March 17

2014     “The Tournesol Exhibition”  Suzanne L’Heureuz, Square Cylinder Online, August 7

2013     “Heightened Subjectivity at Interface Gallery”, Oakland Art Enthusiast Online, September 19          

2013     “Heightened Subjectivity”  Leora Lutz, SFAQ Online 


Public Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Forge Project, Taghkanic, NY

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX