Richard Baker Resume
Born: 1959; Baltimore, MD
Education:
1979-81 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. MA
1977-79 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Browsing Used Bookstores with Richard Baker, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown MA September 1 - 30
2022 By The Numbers, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown MA July 8 - 27
2021 Dining Out A Home with Richard Baker, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown MA August 6 - 25
2020 Virtual Show (online only due to Covid-19) Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans LA, April – May
Cooking! with Richard Baker, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown MA, August 7 – 26
2019 Richard Baker Provincetown/New York. Work from the 80s and 90s, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
‘Art is what makes life more interesting than art.’ – Robert Filliou,, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2017 2017, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2016 Love and Other Absurdities, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2015 Psyched Out, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
The Doctor is Out, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
2014 Summer Holiday, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY
Holiday, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
2013 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012 Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA; also 2014, 2013, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2001,
1999, 1998, 1997
2011 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2010 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY, also 2005, 2007, 2009
2003 Washburn Gallery, NY; 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:
2023 The Still Center of Life, Thomas Park New York/Seoul, Seoul South Korea July 15 - August 31
Forty-Five Years of Contemporary Art, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans LA October 7 - January 6 2024
Booked, Pamela Salsibury Gallery, Hudson NY November 11 - December 10
2022 Art of the Garden: Selections From The Pat and Nanno de Groot Collection Provincetown Art Association and Museum May 6 - August 7
Fine Arts Work Center Print Project, Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown MA November 24 - January 2
From The Collection, The Bunker Art Space West Palm Beach Florida
Still Life And The Poetry of Place, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson NY September 3 - October 16
The John Waters Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art November 20 - April 16 2023
Words and Whirled Worlds, Thomas Park Gallery, New York/Seoul, Seoul, South Korea November 30 - January 7 2023
2021 Night and Day, Albert Merola Gallery July 2 - 28
The New Provincetown Print Exhibition Mary Heaton Vorse House November 24 – January 3
Art Miami, Arthur Roger Gallery
2020 Old Friends Part 2 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY August 11 – September 13
Reflections of… Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July 24 – August 12
Art in the Time of Empathy, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October 3 - December 19
2019 Selections from the Pat and Nano DeGroot Collection Provincetown Art Association & Museum, July 12 – September 8
Big Fat Flowers, Fine Arts. Work Center in Provincetown, May 3 – May 17
Big Fat Flowers, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, June 14-July 14
2018 GAA Project Space, Cologne,
The Visual Thread, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, curated by Lori Bookstein,
Connections: Visual Fellows of the Cape, Celebrating Fine Arts Work Center 50th Anniversary, Cape Cod Museum of Art
Against Forgetting, GAA Gallery, Wellfleet MA
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, curated by Philip Hoare, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
HEAD2HEAD, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown MA
Summertime, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York NY
Pistil and Stamen, Ille Arts, East Hampton NY, 18 August- 10 September
2016 Bookish: A Group Art Show, The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, Sharon CT
Feast for the Eyes, Nassau County Museum of Art July 30 – November 6
2015 Setting the Table, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2014 BRIC Biennial: Volume I, BRIC Arts | Media, Brooklyn, NY
Amuse Bouche, The Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, Truro, MA
2011 Bibliomania, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Main Gallery, Summit, NJ
Richard Baker and Tom Burckhardt, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
ex libris, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York
The Figurative Tradition of Provincetown Painting: Edwin Dickinson, Ross Moffett,
Tony Vevers and Richard Baker, Acme Fine Art, Boston, MA
Collectors Among Us, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
The Garden, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Picture Books, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2010 Night, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Reader’s Delight, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Sweetness and Light & Where There’s Smoke, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
The Things Themselves, curated by Elizabeth Saperstein and Nancy Warner, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2009 No Shoes on the Carpet, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Eliminate, curated by John Waters, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2006 Summer Light, Brick Walk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT
Zeuxis: Facets of Perception, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art,
Staten Island, NY
2003 Westbeth Gallery, New York
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
JG Contemporary, New York
2002 Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2001 Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Cape Museum of Fine Art, Dennis, MA
1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998 Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
1997 Robert Steele Gallery, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1995 O’Hara Gallery, New York
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
1994 L’École des Beaux-Arts de Lorient, France
Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
1993 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY
Higgins Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, MA
Washburn Gallery, New York
Karl Drerup Fine Arts Gallery, Plymouth State College, MA
1992 Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
Associated American Artists, New York
Neilsen Gallery, Boston, MA
Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
Hunter College, New York
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1991 Boston Center for the Arts, MA
1990 East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, NY
1989 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
1987 East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1985 Boston Center for the Arts, MA
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
1983 Van Buren-Brazelton-Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Public Collections:
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Sarasota Springs, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Newark Museum, NJ
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA
Awards:
2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
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
Bibliography:
2023 Artist in Residence: Richard Baker, Swill Magazine by Myffy Rigby
2022 Work Is More Fun Than Fun with Richard Baker and Barbara Kassel, by Phyllis Floyd, Zeuxis
2020 Bomb Magazine Banquet Years: Interview with Richard Baker by Paul Mazier
2019 Beer With A Painter: Richard Baker, Hyperallergic by Jennifer Samet
Looking Back: Richard Baker at Tibor de Nagy, Two Coats of Paint with Sharon Butler
2016 Lahiri, Jhumpa. “The Clothing of Books.
Coggins, David. Men and Style.
2015 “Buffalo Zine”(June). Works and comments.
Yau, John. “Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds Can Make for Good Art.” Hyperallergic (June)
2014 Yau, John. “Richard Baker Kicks Out the Jams.” Hyperallergic (February)
2012 Yau, John. “Richard Baker, Physiognomist of our Past and Future.” Hyerallergic (August)
2011 Baker, Kenneth. “Lind Booked Up.” San Francisco Chronicle (January 29).
Curcio, Seth. “Cover to Cover.” <http://www.dailyserving.com> (February).
2010 Yau, John. “In Conversation: Richard Baker with John Yau.” The Brooklyn Rail (February).
Connolly, Francesca. “Art and Décor: Richard Baker Book Cover Series” Remodelista.com
2008 Coggins, David. Review. Art in America (January).