Allison Baker
Education
2015 Masters of Fine Arts: Sculpture
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Sculpture cum laude
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
2012 Bachelor of Arts: Gender Studies cum laude
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Grants and Awards
2022 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant- Creative Support for Individuals, MN.
2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant- Creative Support for Individual Artists, MN
Red Bull Arts Microgrant: Twin Cities
2019 Finalist, McKnight Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Advancing Equity and Social Justice Grant, Working Class Folks Don’t Belong in Higher Ed. , Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
Hanna Grant, Romani Textiles and Soft Sculpture in Hungary: Narrative Textiles and Social Responsibility, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
2017 Sustainability Grant, Freespeech and the Filterbubble, with Dr. Aaron
McKain, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
Donald E. And Elizabeth K Birdgman Grant for Fine Arts Research,
Living as A Woman: An Examination and Critique of the Feminine Throughout Art- Summer Collaborative Undergraduate Research with Emily E. Anderson
Faculty induction into Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa Honors
Society for excellence in teaching, service, and scholarship
2016 Humanities Grant, The Monstrous Feminine, Abjection, and the Bayou,
Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
Dean’s Grant, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
2015 Sylvia Leslie Young Herman Scholarship Award,
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2012 Hutton Honors College, Capstone Award, Bloomington, IN
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Semi-Functional, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2023 TBA, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022 Welcome Passages, Spring/Break Art Show (Two Person with Kat Sánchez)
and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
TBA, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Laundry and Landscape, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
Cartesian//Split, Project Project, Omaha, NE
Semi-Sentient Trash, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Endophage, Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
Home, 934 Gallery, Columbus, OH
2020 Unsterile, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Contaminated, Shelter in Place Gallery, Boston, MA
Infectious Madness, Gallery 610, Menomonie, WI (canceled due to Covid-19)
2019 Bio-Wearables: Rhetorical Gesture and Embodied Sonic Affect, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Cellular Home Invasion, NE Sculpture Gallery Factory, Minneapolis, MN
7 Signs of an Unhealthy Gut, Wyoming Creative Arts Center, Wyoming, MN
2018 Third-Leg-Third-Rail, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
(curated by Faina Lerman)
2017 Medusa’s Head, Casket Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
(catalogue) (curated by Ty Jesse)
Waffler, Spread Art-Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Lost Bread, Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, MN
2014 Siblings, Granoff Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
Selected Group Exhibitions
(*) Denotes Juried Exhibitions
2022 Femina, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
Soft Power, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2021 A Glitter of Seas, Dreamsong Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
(curated by Rebecca Heidenberg)
Wheaton Biennial_final_final_FINAL, Wheaton College, Norton, MA*
63rd Arrowhead Regional Biennial, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN*
2020 Realities, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL*
Crust, Sugar Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
New Domestics, Franconia Commons Gallery, Shafer, MN (Curated by Ginger. Shulick Porcella)
Creating a New Whole, Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI*
I'm Looking Forward to Tomorrow, High Springs, FL
Paperworks IIV, Foundry Art Centre, St Charles, MO*
2019 Abstract Mind, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea*
International Bad Video Art Festival, Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Pattern/Place, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH (curated by Marla Roddy and Lance Pruitt)
That's what she said, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA (curated by Xalli Zungia)
The Rare Few, Sloss Furnaces Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Cope, Drag, and Core, Back 40 Warehouse, Birmingham, AL
Faculty Exhibition, Soeffker Gallery, Hamline University, St Paul, MN
2018 Streams and Channels, Center for Digital Arts, WCC, Peekskill, NY*
Bio-Wearables: Rhetorical Gesture and Embodied Sonic Affect, Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN
That’s what she said, AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA* (curated by Xalli Zungia)
(catalogue)
Obscure Origins, Carnegie Art Center, Mankato, MN
Unyielding Shapes: An Exhibition of Women in Contemporary Cast Iron, Casket Arts @Franconia in the City, Minneapolis, MN (curated by Rose Von Muchow)
2017 Nasty Women, Knockdown Center, New York, NY (curated by Julia Sinelnikova)
The Chautauqua National Juried Exhibition: ORDER AND CHAOS,
Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY*
Mid West Sculpture Exhibition, Indiana University Kokomo,
Kokomo, Indiana* (curated by Janet Meek)
2016 Besides, Grin Gallery, Providence, RI (curated by Corey Oberlander and Lindsey Stapleton)
Equality Matters, Mildred M. Cox Gallery, Williams Woods University, Fulton, MO* (curated by Nicole Petrescu)
Being Her Now, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD*
We Are Survivors, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA* (curated by Jessica Pleyel)
Franconia Alumni Exhibition, Casket Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Faculty Exhibition, Hamline University, St Paul, MN (curated by John-Mark Schlink)
2015 Deep Play Fun House, Seed Space, Nashville, TN* (curated by Rachel Bubis)
Sweet Tooth, The New Bohemian Gallery, Brainerd, MN*
Cement All, Flux Factory, New York City, NY (catalogue) (curated by Anthony Graves)
Moist, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA* (catalogue) (curated by Ginger Shulick Porcella)
(dis)comfort, Piante Gallery, Eureka, CA*
Parallels, University of Texas, Austin, TX
BYOB, Grin Gallery, Providence, RI
A Slight Hysterical Tendency, Convention Center, Providence, RI
2014 Juried Sculpture Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI*
Matters, Sculpture Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
Anthology, Granoff Center, Brown University, Providence, RI*
Kinsey Institute International Juried Exhibit, Gunewald gallery, Bloomington, IN*
2013 Expose Gallery, Providence, RI
2012 Devotion Invitational, Bloomington Clay Studios, Bloomington, IN
Kinsey Institute International Juried Exhibit, Gunewald gallery, Bloomington, IN*
Beast Within, Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN (catalogue)
Publications
Post-Human: New Media Art 2020. CICA Museum Press, Gyeonggi-do,
South Korea, 2020
Keeping Façade. Co-Authored with Gail Dodge. Synecdoche Books, Brown University Press, Providence, RI, 2015
“ ‘Night Mother.” In Adulthood. At This Very Instant Press, Vienna, Austria,
2015
“Mudgirl.” Bluestockings Magazine. Brown University Press, Providence, RI, 2015
“Siblings.” Tulane Review. Tulane University Press, New Orleans, LA, 2015
“Tiffany’s.” Moist. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Orange County, CA, 2015
“Spoiled Rotten.” Anthony Graves. Cement ALL. Unleashed Animal Books, NYC, NY, 2015
Selected Reviews and Press
“The Spring/Break Art Show Fills up an LA Warehouse with Eccentric Visions,” Samantha Hernandez. Hyperallergic, Feb 18th, 2022
“In Pictures: The Best Art of Spring Break Los Angeles 2022, From a Hot Dog Rolling Machine to Personalized NFTs,” Sarah Cascone. Artnet, February 18, 2022
“Messy from the Start: Birth, Breastfeeding, and Abjection,” Sheila Dickinson. MN Artists, Minneapolis, MN, July 14, 2021
“Artists Go Solo At Ely Center,” Brian Slattery. New Haven Independent, New Haven, CT, June 17, 2021
“Studio Visit Artist,” Erika Hesse. I Like Your Work Podcast, May 15, 2020
“See It Before It is Gone: Besides at Grin Gallery,” Alexander Castro. Big Red and Shiny, Boston, MA, FEBRUARY 10, 2016
“Grin Reapers,” Andrea Feldman, Take Magazine.
(April/May 2016 Issue), North Hampton, MA, 2016
“OCCCA Gets ‘Moist’” Dave Barton. OC Weekly, Orange County, CA, June 25,
2015
Lectures, Presentations, and Workshops
2022 “Visiting Artist Lecture Series,” Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
“Visiting Artist Lecture: Professional Practices,” University of Las Vegas Nevada, NV
2021 “Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, Curating Change,” Lewis and Clark College,
Portland, OR
“Social Justice Through Artistic Expression,” Creative Impact Series, Tualatin Valley Creates
"Visiting Artist Lecture & Professional Practices" University of Tennessee- Knoxville
“Laundry and Landscapes,” Artist Lecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
“Soft Sculpture Workshop.” Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
“Iron is for Every Body.” International Sculpture Center
2020 “Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On Environmental Health," Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium
2019 "Pedagogies of Inclusivity: Iron is for Every Body" Panel chair- moderator, National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices, Birmingham, AL
Lecture and graduate critiques, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2018 "Social and Political Issues in iron: Pedagogies of Inclusion.” Iron in the 21st Century, Panelist, International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Scranton, PA
“Bio-Wearables: Rhetorical Gesture and Embodied Sonic Affect” Unsound Methods? Panelist, Rhetoric Society of America,
Minneapolis, MN
2017 Artist Lecture, Spread Art-Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Lecture, Omicron Delta Kappa Honors Society, Hamline
2016 Lecture, Macalister College, St Paul, MN
Lecture, Arteles, Haukijärvi, Finland
2015 Lecture and Graduate Critiques, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2014 Lecture, Sandhills Community College, Pinhurst, NC
Workshop: Large Scale Sand Molds and Iron Casting,
University of Tennessee- Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
Public Works and Permanent Collections
2021 Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2016 University Permanent Collection, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
2015 Access Fort Wayne, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Fleet Library, Permanent Collection, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2014 Ava at the Prudential Center, Boston, MA
Roger Williams Park and Zoo, Providence, RI
2014 B-line Trail and Park, Bloomington Parks and Rec, Bloomington, IN
Karst Farm Park, Bloomington Parks and Rec, Bloomington, IN
Residencies
2021-2022 Overpass Projects, Providence, RI
2019 BARTR, Budapest, Hungary (cancelled due change in Hungarian laws)
2018 Popp’s Packing, Hamtramck/Detroit, MI
2017 Spread Art @Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Art House on the Levee, New Orleans, LA
2016 Arteles, Haukijärvi, Finland
2014 Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Paradise Pour at CE Systems, Columbus, IN
2012 Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture: MOSS House
Coalbrookdale, United Kingdom
2011 Sculpture Trails Museum of Outdoor Sculpture, Solsberry, IN
Professional Experience
2018-2021 Executive Director, Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
2020 Selection Committee, Franconia Hot Metal Residency, MN
Juror, Member’s Exhibition, Wyoming Creative Arts Center, Wyoming, MN
2019-2020 CreateWorkshop mentor, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Juror, Powderhorn Arts Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Visiting Artist, Large Scale Sand Molds and Iron Casting, Fanconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
2017 Juror, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalister College, Saint Paul, MN
2016 Visiting Artist, Large Scale Sand Molds and Iron Casting,
Hydro-Iluminata, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Instructor of Record, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2014 Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Visiting Artist, Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst, NC
Visiting Artist Coordinator, Rhode Island School of Design,
2013 Teaching Assistant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2013-15 Assistant Technician, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2012 Iron Foundry Technician, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Iron Foundry Technician, Assistant to James Wade,
Ironbridge Museum of Steel Sculpture, Coalbrookdale, UK
2011-2012 Vice President, Sculpture Guild at Indiana University
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor, Hamline University, Department of Studio Arts and Art History, 2021-Present
** 2020-2021 Faculty of the year
** 2020-2021 Faculty Advisor of the Year for First Year Seminar
Assistant Professor, Hamline University, Department of Studio Arts and Art History, 2015-2020
MFA Mentor--Graduate Seminar, Lesley University, 2021
Instructor of Record, Rhode Island School of Design, 2015
Teacher, Harmony High School, 2010
Curatorial Projects
2020 Contaminated, Online Exhibition in partnership with the Institute for Digital Humanities
If Its True Its True But Its Not, NE Sculpture Factory Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Talent-show-car-wash-bake-sale, Sad Boys Gallery, St Paul, MN
Do You Want Fries With That. , Soffker Gallery, St Paul, MN
2017 Crisis Mode, Soffker Gallery, St Paul, MN
2015 Steel Feel, Gallery 301, Providence, RI