Curriculum Vitae
Kate Baker
Education
2025 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The Australian National University, School of Art and Design, Canberra
Thesis: Beyond the Material: at the Intersection of Glass and the Digital Image
1999 Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with 1st class Honours (Major: Studio Glass), Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Difficult Knowledge, The Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
2023 Beyond the Material: at the Intersection of Glass and the Digital Image, Australian National University Gallery, Canberra.
2020 Sublimate, Finkelstein Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Between Intimacy and Trespass, The Canberra Glassworks Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2017 Within Matter, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
2015 Flux, The Depot Gallery, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
2011 Encode, Sabbia Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011 Cipher, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2009 Transgression, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Museum Group Exhibitions
2025 Lives: Masterpieces from the Toyama Museum of Glass Collection, Toyama, Japan
2024 The World in my Hand, Alexander Tutsek Art Museum, Munich, Germany
2021 The International Exhibition of Glass, Toyama Museum of Glass, Toyama, Japan
2019 - 2022 New Glass Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Art in Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA.
Tour: The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC, USA and Toyama Museum of Glass, Toyama, Japan
2018 Contemporary Narratives in Glass, The Palm Springs Art Museum, California, USA
2013 Chromatic Fusion: The Art of Fused Glass, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2012 In the Name of Love: International Contemporaries in Glass, Alexander Tutsek Art Museum, Munich, Germany
Collections
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
Alexander Tutsek Stiftung Collection, Munich, Germany
The Toyama Museum of Glass, Toyama, Japan
The Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia
The Hindmarsh Corporate Collection, Canberra, Australia
Private Collections in America, Europe, Asia and Australia
Awards and Grants
2024 The Fuse Glass Prize, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia (finalist)
2024 Arts & Cultural Funding Program - Project Funding for Individuals, Create NSW, Australia (recipient)
2023 Inner West Council Arts Project Grant, Inner West Council, Australia (recipient)
2022 The Tom Bass Sculpture Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney, Australia (finalist)
2021 The Toyama International Exhibition of Glass, The Toyama Museum of Glass, Toyama, Japan (finalist)
2021 The Tom Malone Art Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (finalist) (also 2020)
2020 The Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, VIC (finalist)
2020 The Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Sydney, NSW (finalist) (also 2019)
2020 The Fuse Glass Prize, The Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA (finalist)(also 2018)
2019 Arts Projects for Individuals Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Australia (recipient)
2019 The Klaus Moje Glass Award, Canberra, A.C.T (finalist)
2018 The Hindmarsh Prize, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, ACT (recipient)
2017 Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (recipient)
2014 City of Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, Australia (finalist)
2012 Ranamok Glass Prize, Australia (finalist) (also 2009, 2008, 2007)
2010 New Work - Emerging Artist Grant, Australia Council for the Arts (recipient)
Selected Media
2024 Kate Baker: our December Laurel. An installation in Shanghai reflecting the anxieties of children, Garland Magazine, 4 Dec 2024
2023 Kate Baker's Beyond the Material is Highly Sophisticated, by Brian Rope, The Canberra Times, 15 March, 2023
2021 Kate Baker: Exploring the Connection Between Flesh and the Human Spirit, by Sara Sally LaGrand, Glass Art Magazine, Print Edition, Vol. 36 No.3, 2021
2020 Kate Baker: Moving into the Sublime, by Kathleen Linn, Artist Profile, Print Edition no 50, Mar 2020
2020 Kate Baker Harnesses the Transformative Power of Glass, by Tracey Clement, Art Guide, Feb 2020
2020 Sublimate, by Vanessa Low, Art Almanac, Print Edition February 2020
2018 Cross Medium Collaborations Revitalise Glass, by Gina Fairley, ArtsHub, 28 Sept 2018
2017 Kate Baker’s ‘Within Matter’, by Lucy Stranger, Artist Profile, 5 July 2017
2016 Flux In Review, by Ivana Jirasek, The Urban Art Glass Quarterly, Spring 2016 Print Edition #142, Urban Glass, New York.
