About
Kate Baker
Australian Artist
Kate Baker is a contemporary Australian artist whose practice merges photo, print and moving image technologies with studio glass. Before graduating from the Glass Workshop at the Australian National University School of Art in Canberra in 1999, Baker studied photography, printmaking and sculpture. Today, her practice seamlessly integrates these mediums, erasing the traditional divisions between them.
Baker locks ghostly, elusive and suggestive images and narratives into layers of glass, mirror, and more recently metal. Her themes are of a complex human environment layered with physical, psychological and emotional strata, inviting the viewer to consider the relationship between the self and one’s experience.
In 2017 Baker returned to the Australian National University as a full-time PhD Candidate to further develop her studio research in a critiqued setting. She was recently awarded the 2018 Hindmarsh Prize, which recognises excellence in the field of Contemporary Art made primarily from glass.
Baker’s work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally including at the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, the Toyama Museum of Glass, Japan, the Palm Springs Art Museum, California, the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe and the Glass Biennale, Venice, Italy. Both a finalist and winner of national and international art prizes, scholarships and grants, her artworks are featured in collections globally.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
• 2020 Sublimate, Finkelstein Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2019 Between Intimacy and Trespass, The Canberra Glassworks Gallery, Canberra, Australia
• 2017 Within Matter, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
• 2015 Flux, The Depot Gallery, Sydney Australia
• 2011 Encode, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• 2011 Cipher, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
• 2009 Transgression, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Museum Exhibitions
• 2019 New Glass Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Art in Glass, The Corning Museum, New York, USA
• 2018 The 2018 Hindmarsh Prize touring exhibition, The Toyama Museum of Glass, Toyama, Japan
• 2018 Contemporary Narratives in Glass, The Palm Springs Art Museum, California, USA
• 2013 Chromatic Fusion: The Art of Fused Glass, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• 2012 In The Name of Love: International Contemporaries in Glass, Alexander Tutsek Stiftung Contemporary Art Museum, Munich, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2019 Finkelstein Gallery Presents….., Finkelstein Gallery Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• 2017 Symbiosis - China and Australia at the Edge, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
• 2017 Photo17, Singapore Contemporary Art Fair, Singapore
• 2013 SOFA Chicago, with Bullseye Gallery, Chicago, USA (also 2011 and 2010) (catalogues)
• 2012 Evolve, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
• 2011 Glimpse, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• 2010 Immersion: Kate Baker and Lisa Cahill, Canberra Glassworks, Australia
• 2004 Australian New Zealand Glass: The Next Generation, Global Art Venue, Seattle, Washington, USA
• 1998 Venezia Aperto Vetro, International Biennale of Glass, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Collections
• Alexander Tutsek Stiftung Collection, Munich Germany
• The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
• Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
• Private Collections in America, Europe, Asia and Australia
Awards and Grants
• 2020 Finalist, The Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
• 2020 Finalist, The Fuse Glass Prize, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA
• 2020 Finalist, The Tom Malone Art Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
• 2019 Recipient, Arts Projects for Individuals Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Australia
• 2019 Finalist, The Klaus Moje Glass Award, Canberra, A.C.T.
• 2019 Finalist, The Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Sydney, NSW
• 2018 Winner, The Hindmarsh Prize, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT
• 2018 Finalist, Fuse Glass Prize, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia
• 2017 Recipient, Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
• 2014 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, Australia
• 2012 Finalist, Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia (also 2009, 2008, 2007)
• 2010 Recipient, New Work - Emerging Artist Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Australia
• 2010 Winner Gold Award winner, e-merge 2010, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA
• 2007 Finalist, International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa Prize, Japan
