Baker is an associate professor in the Studio Department at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He has exhibited work in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Basel, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, and other American cities. His work has been featured in many publications, private collections, as well as permanent collections at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Zabludowicz Art Trust London, Taschen Foundation Berlin, Cincinnati Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, JP Morgan Art Collection, and Progressive Insurance Collection.
Selected solo and two person exhibitions
2019
Burning Out, LMAKgallery, NY
2018
Within Between, Tatiana Kronberg & Jimmy Baker, LMAKgallery, NY
2015
Phantom Eye: Jimmy Baker & Matthew Hillock, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015
SUNGAZERS, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2012
Holding Pattern, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2011
Remote Viewing, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2010
Sentinel, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Event Horizon, New Galerie de France, Paris
2008
Civil Dusk, Foxy Production, New York, NY
LISTE, Foxy Production, Basel, Switzerland
Hairrier with Nathan Tersteeg, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007
True Diplomacy with Jil Baker, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Rapture, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2006
The Captives, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Challenges, Weston-Bolling Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2004
Hands On, DAAP Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Wide Angle, FotoFocus Biennial, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Assemblage & Collage, Elizabeth Leach, Portland, OR
2017
All or Nothing, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Zing Zam Blunder, curated by Brian Scott Campbell, Harbinger Projects, Reykjavík,
Iceland
Double Edged, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX
State of the Art, The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC
State of the Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, TN
State of the Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, TN
2017-2016
Fiction II, Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Australia; Volunteer State Community
College, Nashville, TN; Apothecary, Chattanooga, TN; CLASS ROOM, Coventry,
England; Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois; Angelika Studios, High Wycombe,
England; Boecker Contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany; Divisible, Dayton, OH
2016
Formal Function: Strategies in Abstraction, Carnegie Arts Center, Covington, KY
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis,
MN
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, curated by Todd Pavlisko, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2014
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Collection Gilles Balmet, Ecole Superieure d’Art Design, Grenoble, France
2013
Reverb: Recent Abstract Painting, University of Northern Iowa, IA
2012
Black Foliage, Nudashank, Baltimore MD
Good Morning, Captain, Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, KY
2011
Strange Beauty, IDEA Space, Colorado College, CO
2010
Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Baker, Braunig, Gokita, Hopkins, Foxy Production, New York, NY
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Project Space 176, London, UK
Shapeshifter, Country Club Projects, Cincinnati, OH
2008
Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Uncoordinated, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Face Forward: Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Columbia University, New York, NY
2007
An Aside, Zoo Art Fair with Project Space 176, London, England
2006
Sea Change, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
25 Bold Moves, emerging artist exhibit, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
Now, More Than Ever, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2005
Five Solo Shows, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Frontier, Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Art in the Midwest: 2005 DePauw Biennial, Greencastle, IN
2004
Infinite Fill, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Despite the Sun, Foxy Production, New York, NY