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SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2006 Monday Tuesday Duende, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
2006 What Meets the Eye: Hilary Baker and Amir Fallah, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2005 What Meets The Eye, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2005 EyeBlast: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, Cypress College, Cypress, CA (catalog)
2004 Hilary Baker, Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA
2003 Look, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2002 Suburbia, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001 Appearing Nightly, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Suburbia, Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France
2000 Wraith Tracks, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 Gestural Maps: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, POST, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Hilary Baker, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Some Paintings: The Third LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Black Mirror, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Hausguests, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Looking at Art, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Big and Holy, Cartelle Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA (catalog)
2004 Lotusland, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2003 No Chaser, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Is, Was, Will Be, L’Espace Melanie, Riec-Sur-Belon, France; Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
2003 SoCal Locals, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Material Girls, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Yo, Flat Files Rendezvous, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2002 The Group Show, R.B.Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001 The Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001 100 Percent Rag, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Hand-painted, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2001 Mass Appeal, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2000 California Color, Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France
2000 Five Painters, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
1999 Lantern Of The East, Pyong Taek City Museum, Pyong Taek, Korea (catalog)
1998 . . . a few more L.A. Artists (the distaff side), Mirren Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
1998 Illuminated Under White Light: Eight Painters, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1997 group, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1997 Archaeology: Hilary Baker, Steve Galloway, Kevin Wixted, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
1997 Recent Acquisitions Of The Achenbach Foundation, 1991 - 1996, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1997 Beyond Boundaries, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1996 Diversity Of Contemporary Painting, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Beyond Boundaries, Bank of America Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Field Days, Cerulean Embankments, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1996 Hilary Baker, Hanna Hannah, Marta Thoma, TERRAIN, San Francisco, CA
1995 Showgirl, Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
1995 L.A. Current: Works on Paper, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Oscar Wilde: A Man of Great Importance, TERRAIN, San Francisco, CA
1995 Four By Nature, Gate Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
1994 Recent Gifts And Purchases: Twentieth Century Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Homage To The Bard, TERRAIN, San Francisco, CA
1994 The First Ten Years: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Ucross Foundation Gallery, Clearmont, WY
1994 Sawtelle, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Laughing Matters, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1992 A Room With A View, Ettinger Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)
1992 L.A. Works on Paper, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1992 Hilary Baker, Jeffrey Mitchell And Paula Matello, Parker/Mark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 (basically) Black & White, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1990 The Mark, Security Pacific Gallery, South Coast Metro Center, Costa Mesa, CA (catalog)
1989 Five Northern California Artists, Five Southern California Artists, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA

CURATORIAL:
Archaeology, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV, 1997
Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950’s - 1990’s, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 1995 - 1996
Open Windows Project, Los Angeles Festival’s Open Festival, Santa Monica, CA, 1990

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
ART/OMI, New York, NY
JVC Industrial America, Inc., San Diego, CA / Mexico
Kanayama Minami Complex, Nagoya, Japan
KB Home, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France
Security Pacific National Bank, Eureka, CA
Studley Corporation, Irvine, CA
UCLA Medical Arts Program, Los Angeles, CA
The Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Harvey, Doug, Some Paintings, LA Weekly, January 11, 2008
Pagel, David, Around the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2006
Frank, Peter, Go, LA Weekly, February 16, 2006
Woodard, Josef, What Meets the Eye, essay, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
Geer, Suvan, Hilary Baker and Amir Fallah, ArtScene, January 2006
Woodard, Josef, The Eyes Have It, Santa Barbara News-Press, May 27, 2005
Hutchison, Alice, EyeBlast: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, catalog essay, Cypress College, Cypress, CA, 2005
Pincus, Robert L., Super, Natural, San Diego Union -Tribune, August 14, 2003
Pincus, Robert L., Shapes Of Things To Come, San Diego Union -Tribune, February 7, 2002
Frank, Peter, Art Pick Of The Week, LA Weekly, March 2, 2001
Pincus, Robert L., Loops, Swirls And Scrapings, San Diego Union Tribune, December 7, 2000
Crosby, Gregory, radiant city arts, Scope magazine, December 15, 1997
Greiger, Scott, Profile: Hilary Baker, Otis Alumni and Friends, Fall issue, 1996
Fitz Gibbon, John and PIcot, Pierre, Sexy: Sensual Abstraction In California, 1950’s - 1990’s, exhibition catalog,
Armory Center for the Arts, 1996
Pagel, David, Hit-and-Miss Affair In ‘Sexy’ Show, Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1996
Auerback, Lisa Anne, Do Ya Think It’s Sexy?, LA Reader, February 16, 1996
Frank, Peter, At Angels Gate, Four Artists Take Their Cue From Mother Nature, Long Beach Press-Telegram, May 21, 1995
Crosby, Gregory, Professor’s Guide To Kulchur, Scope Magazine, May, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1995
O’Brien, Draza Fratto, Do You Think It’s Sexy?, Las Vegas Weekly, April 25, 1995
Kapitanoff, Nancy, Fresh From the Garden, Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1994
Stallings, Tyler, Laughing Matters, exhibition catalog, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1993
Reed, Jim, A Room With A View, exhibition catalog, Art Institute of Southern California, 1992
Curtis, Cathy, Approaching Their Marks, Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1990
Bulmer, Marge, East Meets West: Hilary Baker and Mineko Grimmer, Artweek, September 20, Vol. 21, No. 30, 1990
Geer, Suvan, Enlarging The Cultural Vocabulary, Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1990
Muchnic, Suzanne, Strange Territory, Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1990

AWARDS:
2001 Artist-in-Residence, Pont-Aven School of Art, France
2000 Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1998 ART/OMI International Arts Center Residency, Omi, NY
1997 Metro Art Bookmark Project, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1989 Artist-in-Residence, The Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY

EDUCATION:
M.F.A. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Hilary Baker was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, California. She lives and works in Los Angeles.