Biography

1975
Born, Stamford, CT
Lives and works in New York City

2002
MFA Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1998
BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, Boston, MA


Solo Exhibitions

2012
(Forthcoming) The Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY

2011
National Art Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2010
New Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2009
Splitting Twilight, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2007
Surge and Shadow, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2005
Fall Out, Acme, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Espace 315, Musee National D’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2003
Flat Out, Deitch Projects, New York, NY


Group Exhibitions

2012
(Forthcoming) In Living Color, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
(Forthcoming) Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milano, Italy

2011
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY

2009
15 Year Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Elles, Musee National D’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Embrace, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Group Show, New Galerie De France, Paris France

2008
Substraction, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
Admirer, 31 Grand, New York, NY

2007
Art in America Now, MOCA, Shanghai, China
Sequence One, Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
USA Today, The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Permanent Collection Installation, Whitney Museum (lower level gallery), New York, NY
The Incomplete, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

2006
USA Today, The Royal Academy of Arts London, UK

2005
Neocon, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York, NY
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

2004
Fight or Flight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

2003
The Burnt Orange Heresy, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY
Beside, ACME, Los Angeles

2002
Painting Report, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Champion, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Loaded, Midway Contemporary Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
10 Seconds to Love, Muller Dechiara, Berlin, Germany


Public Collections

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Musee National D’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Francois Pinault Collection


Books

Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2009
NICKAS, Bob, “Kristin Baker”, p.14; [illus.] pp.15-17; “Artists’ biographies”, p.344


Solo Exhibition Catalogues

Kristin Baker, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004
GINGERAS, Alison M. and Kristin Baker, “AMG/KB” trans. Calorine Jouve, pp.4-16 [interview]; [illus.] pp. 24-29, 36-45,54-65; “légends des œuvres/images captions”, p.68; DAILEY, Meghan, “conduite/driven” trans. Caroline Jouve, pp.70-75; “biographie/biography”, p.77

Kristin Baker: Surge and Shadow, Deitch Projects, New York, 2007
GROSS, Jennifer R. “Kristin Baker: Ready Made Romantic”, pp.3-13; “Selected Works”, pp.16-27, 30-47, 50-61, 78-79 “Installation View”, p.29, 48-49, 62-66; “Artist Biography”, p.81; “List of Works”, pp.82-83


Group Exhibition Catalogues

Greater New York 2005, New York, NY: PS1 Contemporary Art Center. 2005: pp. 62-63

USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 2006
[note on artist] p.23;[illus.] pp.24-33

Art in America Now, Museum of Contemporary Art: Shanghai, China. 2007: pp. 74-75.

Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture in the FranÁois Pinault Collection, Skira, Geneve,?2007
GINGERS, Alison, “Kristin Baker”, pp.18-19 [text in Italian]; “Kristin Baker”, pp. 88-89 [text in English]; “Kristin Baker”, pp. 212-213 [text in French]; [illus.] pp.95; [list of works] p.318, 321,324

THE INCOMPLETE, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2007
[Illus.]pp.110-111

Abstract America, Jonathan Cape, London, 2008
[cover]; [caption] p.212;[illus.]pp.213-225; “The Artists”,p.395

V1: embrace!, Denver Art Museum, Denver, 2009
HEINRICH, Christoph, “From White Cube to White Crystal”, trans. Helge Dascher, pp.16-27; “Kristin Baker”, p. 55, 59; [illus.] p.54, pp.56-58; “Artist Biographies”, p.150

V2: embrace!, Denver Art Museum, Denver, 2009
[floor plan] n.p.; “Kristin Baker”, pp.184-191[installation view]; HEINRICH, Christoph, “Artists Take Over”, pp.193-196, 197-199, 202-203; “Cast & Crew”,p.204


Selected Press

ELEELY, Peter, “Painting Report,” Frieze, Nov/Dec 2002, p.105*

“Exhibits: What To See Now, Flat Out, Deitch Projects,” Bazaar, September 2003, p. 303

“Flat Out,” The New Yorker, September 22, 2003

GLADMAN, Randy. “In the moment with Kristin Baker,” NY ARTS, Jan/Feb 2003

KEDDIE, Victoria, “Kristin Baker: Flat Out,” Brooklyn Rail, October 2003

FRANCK, Elisabeth, “To the races,” Vogue, May 2004, p. 185*

JOHNSON, Ken, “Fight or Flight,” The New York Times, 10 December 2004

“Mixed Paint,” Flash Art, November–December 2004, p. 88

“Open House: Working in Brooklyn,” Village Voice, May 5-11 2004, p. 82

“Moment of Impact,” V Magazine, 34 spring 2005

“Fight or Flight,” Tema Celeste, May/June 2005, p. 76

OLLMAN, Leah, “The beauty of auto racing,” Los Angeles Times, 1 April 2005, p. E22

RIMANELLI, David, “Greater New York,” Artforum, May 2005, p. 239-240

SINGER, Debra, “First Take,” Artforum, January 2005, p. 142-143*

HONG, Catherine, “The Talent Show,” W Magazine, November 2006, p. 202

JANUSZCZAK, Waldemar, “Don’t want to be an American Idiot,” The Sunday Times, 8 October 2006

SISCHY, Ingrid, “The New New York School,” Vanity Fair, December 2006, p. 346- 347

SPENCE, Rebecca, “Boundary Issues,” Art News, April 2006, p.124-125

SMITH, Roberta, “Art in Review; Kristin Baker,” The New York Times, 30 March 2007

“Surge and Shadow, Deitch Projects,” The New Yorker, April 16, 2007, p. 26

KAZANJIAN, Dodie, “Color Surge,” Vogue, March 2008, p. 582-587, 652- 654

KAZANJIAN, Dodie, “Dreaming the Landscape,” Vogue, November 2009, p. 216-223

“Portfolio: Artist on Speed,” Modern Painters, February 2009, p. 52

“Yes, Amid the Boutiques, SoHo Is Still Avant-Garde,” The New York Times, 4 December 2009, p. 37-40

“First Kristin Baker Exhibition in an American Museum Opens at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” artdaily.org, 5 November 2010

SEE, Sebastian and Globe Staff, “MFA shows its school spirit: Kristin Baker exhibit puts spotlight on SMFA grads”, The Boston Globe, 8 October 2010

KAZANJIAN, Dodie, “A Winter’s Tale,” Vogue, December 2010, pp 280-285

DONOGHUE, Katy, “Kristin Baker: The Painter,” Whitewall, Spring 2011, pp. 64 – 67