• Claire Baker (b. 1983 Berkeley, CA) draws and paints directly from her body, experiencing being with and of earth. Baker...

    Claire Baker (b. 1983 Berkeley, CA) draws and paints directly from her body, experiencing being with and of earth.  Baker marks movement—earth merging with sky through storm clouds, parrots darting spirals around their tree to announce the dawn, or dusk dissolving a line of mountains into darkness.  Pigment held in her hand senses not only the heft of light and the shift of weight, but the motion of living forces.  The marks flicker in an immersive space of line and tone, swift and slow, density and air.  In recent years, Baker uses only natural earth and stone mineral pigments, increasingly sourcing pigment locally, and grinding her own pigment in connection with the land where she is drawing.


    Baker is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.  Her work has featured in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and institutions including Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA; Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; and Irvine Arts Center, Irvine, CA.  Her work is included in the collection of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, and has been reviewed and discussed in the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Artspace, and ArtScene.  Baker completed her MFA at University of California, Los Angeles and BA in Visual Art at Brown University, RI.  Claire Baker lives and works in Los Angeles and Mumbai.

     

     

     

     

  • CV

    SELECT ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
    2022   
    Undone, Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles
    2017  
    Suspended Wire, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles
    2016

    Stream, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles

    2015                         
    Transitive Horizon, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles
    2013 
    SunBody, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
    2009
    New works, Swarm Gallery, Oakland
  • Select Group Exhibition
    2020 
    Grammars of Creation, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA
    2015 
    Ges-ture, Curated by Carl Berg, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
    2014   

    6018 Wilshire, Curated by Carl Berg, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    2013 
    MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

    Paper, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Fanatic, POST, Los Angeles, CA

    Wall Painting, Irvine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

    Forms of Abstraction, Irvine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

    2010

    Group Show, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA

    2009 
    From the Desert to the Sea, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
    Discovered/Undiscovered, California State University Long Beach Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

    Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

    2008
    New Wave, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Crossroads, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Heavy Corner, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA

    UCLA MFA Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    2006
    State of Emergence: LA Weekly Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • Bibliography
    2022 

    “Must See Pick,” Artforum, Feb 14, 2022

    2016

    Artspace Editors, “Collectors Susan and Michael Hort's Picks From Art Los Angeles Contemporary and Beyond,” Artspace, Jan 30, 2016

    2014     

    Chad Sweeney, "The Horizon Exists in Our Own Bodies: An Interview with Artist Claire Anna Baker," Ghost Town Lit Mag, California State University at San Bernardino, May 2014

    2013 

    Holly Myers, “Exquisite elegance at work in Claire Anna Baker’s paintings,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2013

    Andy Brumer, “Claire Baker,” ArtScene, April 2013

    Vista, Sandra, “The Poetry of Observation,” ArtSlant, March 27, 2013
    2008   

    Goldman, Edward, “The Color of Life,” KCRW Art Talk, March 11, 2008

     

  • AWARDS
    2013   
    Rema Hort Mann Foundation YoYoYo LA Initiative Grant, New York
    2010 – 2011           

    Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, New York

    2008 – 2014           
    Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York                         
    2008

    Werner Z. Hirsch Award in Representational Drawing, UCLA, Los Angeles

    2007             
    D’Arcy Hayman Award for Painting and Drawing, UCLA, Los Angeles
    2006
    D’Arcy Hayman Award for Painting and Drawing, UCLA, Los Angeles
    2005   

    Ann Belsky Moranis Award to an Outstanding Senior in the Visual Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI

  • Residencies
    2023                          

     Art Ichol, Madhya Pradesh, India

    2018   
    Takoja Institute, Questa, New Mexico
    2012 

    Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  • Teaching
    2017-2021
    Tenured faculty in Painting, Pasadena City College, CA
  • Education
    2008 

    MFA, University of California, Los Angeles            

    2005

    BA, Visual Art with Honors, Brown University, RI

  • Public Collections

    The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA