CV & Bio
CV
Jimmy Baker, b. 1980
Lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio
Work
- 2004 – Present: Associate Professor, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH.
- 2013 – Present: Website Manager, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH.
Education
- 2004 MFA, University of Cincinnati
- 2002 BFA, Columbus College of Art and Design
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2024 Lilac Chaser, with Anita Douthat, The Summit Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2019 Burning Out, LMAK Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2018 Within Between: with Tatiana Kronberg, LMAK Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2015 Phantom Eye: Jimmy Baker & Matthew Hillock, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX.
- 2015 SUNGAZERS, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary, Cleveland, OH.
- 2012 Holding Pattern, Shaheen Contemporary, Cleveland, OH.
- 2011 Remote Viewing, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2010 Sentinel, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2010 Event Horizon, New Galerie de France, Paris, France.
- 2008 Civil Dusk, Foxy Production, New York, NY.
- 2008 LISTE Young Art Fair, Foxy Production, Basel, Switzerland.
- 2008 Hairrier, collaboration with Nathan Tersteeg, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2007 True Diplomacy, collaboration with Jil Baker, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.
- 2007 Rapture, Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2006 The Captives, Foxy Production, New York, NY.
- 2006 Challenges, Weston + Bolling Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2004 Hands On, MFA Thesis Show, DAAP Galleries Downtown, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2003 400 Billion Car Pile-up, on the Information Superhighway, Artery, Newport, KY.
- 2002 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, OH.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024 AAC Faculty Exhibition, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2023 It Was Twenty Years Ago Today: Revisiting Cincinnati’s Alternative Scene, The Summit Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2022 AAC Faculty Exhibition, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2020 Four x Five, Dallas Art Fair Projects, Dallas, TX.
- 2020 Immune Response, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2018 Wide Angle, FotoFocus Biennial, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2018 Assemblage & Collage , Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR.
- 2017 All or Nothing, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR.
- 2017 Zing Zam Blunder, curated by Brian Scott Campbell, Harbinger Projects, Reykjavík, Iceland.
- 2017 Double Edged, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX.
- 2017 State of the Art, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
- 2017 State of the Art, Frist Center Art Museum in Nashville, TN.
- 2017 State of the Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, TN.
- 2017-2016 Fiction II, Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Australia; Volunteer State Community College, Nashville, TN; Apothecary, Chattanooga, TN; CLASS ROOM, Coventry, England; Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois; Angelika Studios, High Wycombe, England; Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany; Divisible, Dayton, OH.
- 2016 State of the Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN.
- 2016 Formal Function: Strategies in Abstraction, Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, KY.
- 2016 State of the Art,Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA.
- 2015 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, curated by Todd Pavlisko, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2014 State of the Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR.
- 2014 Collection Gilles Balmet, Ecole Superieure d’Art Design, Grenoble, France.
- 2013 Reverb: Recent Abstract Painting, University of Northern Iowa.
- 2012 Black Foliage, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD.
- 2012 Good Morning, Captain, Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY.
- 2011 Strange Beauty, IDEA Space, Colorado College, CO.
- 2010 Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2010 Baker, Braunig, Gokita, Hopkins, Foxy Production, New York, NY.
- 2010 The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Project Space 176, London, UK.
- 2010 Shapeshifter, Country Club Projects, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2008 Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2008 Uncoordinated: All over the map, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2008 Face Forward: Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Columbia University, New York, NY.
- 2006 Sea Change, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2006 25 Bold Moves, emerging artist exhibit, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2006 Now, More Than Ever, Foxy Production, New York, NY.
- 2005 Five Solo Shows, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.
- 2005 Frontier, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2005 Contemporary Art in the Midwest: DePauw Biennial, Greencastle, IN.
- 2005 Barbaric Stories, Publico, Cincinnati, OH; Black Floor Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
- 2005 The Trendiest Show Ever, Publico, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2004 Group Painting Show, Publico, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2004 Infinite Fill, Foxy Production, New York, NY.
- 2004 Despite The Sun, Foxy Production, New York, NY.
- 2004 It’s Hard to Start Small, MFA Thesis, University of Cincinnati, OH.
- 2004 Real Simple with Seth Scantlen, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH.
- 2004 Heartfelt, Northern Kentucky University.
- 2004 Winter Remix, Publico, Cincinnati, OH.
- 2003 Publicopen House, Publico, Cincinnati, OH.
Art Fairs Exhibited
- 2013 Dallas Art Fair, TX, with Shaheen Modern & Contemporary
- 2010 Art Basel: Miami Beach, FL, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2010 NADA, Miami, FL, with Country Club Gallery
- 2009 Art Basel: Miami Beach, FL, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2009 FIAC, Paris, France, with Foxy Production
- 2009 Art LA, Los Angeles, CA, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2008 Art Basel: Miami Beach, FL, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2008 FIAC, Paris, France, with Foxy Production
- 2008 Liste, Basel, Switzerland, with Foxy Production
- 2008 The Armory Show, New York, with Foxy Production
- 2008 Art LA, New York, NY, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2008 Art LA, Los Angeles, CA, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2007 Art Basel: Miami Beach, FL, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2007 FIAC, Paris, France, with Foxy Production
- 2007 Art LA, New York, NY, with Roberts & Tilton
- 2006 NADA, Miami, FL, with Foxy Production
BIO
Jimmy Baker is an American mixed media painter and Associate Professor of Fine Art and runs the Painting and Drawing department at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He holds a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (2002), and an MFA from the University of Cincinnati (2004).
Baker has exhibited work across many American museums: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Frist Art Museum, Telfair Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, and the Mint Museum; as well as gallery and art fair showings in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Basel, London, Miami, Chicago, Baltimore, Portland and Philadelphia. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Artforum.com, Italian Vanity Fair, Art US, Artnet, Artslant, NY Arts, Artinfo, Glass Tire, K48, New City Chicago, Cincinnati Magazine.
