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SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Arvuli, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Monday Tuesday Duende, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Hilary Baker and Amir Fallah, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2005 EyeBlast: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, Cypress College, Cypress, CA (catalog)
2005 What Meets The Eye, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
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 Gestural Maps: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Wraith Tracks, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
1990 Hilary Baker, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2010 Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY (catalog)
2010 Red Dot New York, Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, CA
2009 Fourth of July One Week Only, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Project 30, Westminster Elementary School, Venice, CA (curated by Lisa Melandri)
2009 Pairs, Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas, NV
2008 About Abstraction, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
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
Chapman University, Orange, CA
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

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.