Kate Baker is an Australian contemporary artist whose practice operates at the intersection of glass and the digital image. Her work merges abstract corporeal expression with an intangible, almost cinematic exploration of time. In her immersive installations, glass and image activate one another through the concept of ‘image-light’, creating atmospheric illusions in which light is held within translucent form, as space made visible.

A graduate of the Australian National University with a Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studio Practice, Baker treats glass not as a passive surface or screen but as an activated substance: one that dematerialises our perception of space and embodies the 'fourth dimension' of time.

Her research-led practice employs the unique material qualities of glass to inform an expanded field, merging sculpture, photography, moving image, and performance choreography into a singular interdisciplinary vision. Through this, she deconstructs established notions of artistic media to forge a unique visual language.

Internationally, Baker's work has been selected for landmark museum survey exhibitions that position her among the global leading practitioners integrating glass into contemporary art. Her work has been included in New Glass Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Art in Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, New York. A major global survey that toured to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and the Toyama Museum of Glass in Japan.

Most recently, Baker presented her first major international museum solo exhibition, Difficult Knowledge, at the Shanghai Museum of Glass in China (November 2024– April 2025). The exhibition transformed the museum’s 800m² Contemporary Art Wing into a striking labyrinth of immersive video, sound, and glass installations, drawing international attention to Baker’s innovative multi-sensory approach.

Baker’s work has also been showcased in several other major international museum exhibitions, including Lives: Masterpieces from the Toyama Museum of Glass Collection (Toyama, 2025); The World in My Hand at the Alexander Tutsek Art Museum in Munich (2024); The International Exhibition of Glass (Japan, 2021); and Contemporary Narratives in Glass at the Palm Springs Art Museum in New Mexico (2018). Each of these prestigious presentations reinforces her position as a rising force in contemporary art and her growing influence on the international stage.

Baker continues to develop ambitious new bodies of work that invite audiences into slow, contemplative encounters that inhabit our vulnerability in an increasingly immaterial world.