Kate Baker is an Australian contemporary artist whose practice is situated at the intersection of glass and the digital image, creating objects and large–scale immersive installations that give material form to the unseen.

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 — deconstructing established artistic media to forge a new visual language.

Internationally, Baker's work has been selected for landmark museum survey exhibitions that position her among the global leading practitioners, who are integrating glass into contemporary art.

Baker’s work was included in New Glass Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Art in Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, New York — a major exhibition that toured to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC and the Toyama Museum of Glass in Japan (2020–2022).

Baker’s work was included in New Glass Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Art in Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, New York — a major exhibition that toured to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC and the Toyama Museum of Glass in Japan (2020–2022).

Her work has also featured in 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 (Toyama, 2021), and Contemporary Narratives in Glass at the Palm Springs Art Museum (New Mexico, 2018), amongst others.

Most recently, the Shanghai Museum of Art…..

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.