Richard Baker

Artist Works

Approach - 2008
54 x 44 inches Oil on linen

Artist Bio

Click HERE To read John Yau's interview with Richard Baker in the Brooklyn Rail.

Click HERE to read about Mr. Baker's Book Portraits in Poets and Writers Magazine.

Click HERE to read Peter Terzian's article in Print Magazine entitled The Painted Book featuring Richard Baker.

Click HERE to see Anne Trubek's feature on Richard Baker in MSN's Good

Click HERE to read Rachel Youen's review of Richard Baker in the art blog OffOffOffArt

Click HERE to read the feature about  Richard Baker in Sharon Butler's art blog: Two Coats of Paint

Education:

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. MA
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Solo Exhibitions:

2010 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, also 2007, 2005, 2009
2006 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA; also 2004, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997
2003 Washburn Gallery, New York; also 2001-02, 2000, 1999, 1997-98, 1996-97, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1991
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Universal Fine Objects, Provincetown, MA; also 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992
1994 Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1993 The Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston, Salem, NC
1990 Provincetown Group Gallery, MA; also 1991, 1989, 1988

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2010 Reader’s Delight, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2010 Sweetness and Light & Where There’s Smoke, Hampden Gallery, UMASS Amherst
2010 Night, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009 Float, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2009 Flower Power, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2007 Eliminate, curated by John Waters, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006 Summer Light, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
2006 Zeuxis: Facets of Perception, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art
2003 Westbeth Gallery, New York
2003  Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2003 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2003 JG Contemporary, New York
2002 Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
2002 Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
2002 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2001 Kraushaar Galleries, New York
2001 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
2001Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
2001 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2001 Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA
1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY  
1998 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
1997 Robert Steele Gallery, New York

Selected Collections:
 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Newark Museum, NJ
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
 
Awards:
 
2002 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant  
2000 Academic Appointment, Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship Review Panel
1995 Academic Appointment, Ohio Art Council Grant Review Panel
1992 New England Foundation for the Arts Grant
1990-91 Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
1989-90  Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, Provincetown, MA