SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027   Solastalgia, CMay Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2026   Prophets, High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon
2024   Neighbors: Wildlife Paintings by Hilary Baker, The High Desert Museum, Bend, Oregon
0000   Cautionary Tales, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation and The Ojai Institute, Ojai, CA
2023   Hilary Baker: Ventura, Vita Art Center, Ventura, CA
0000   Souvenir, r d f a, Los Angeles, CA
2022   Wildlife on the Edge | Hilary Baker, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA
2021   Predators and Other LA Stories, r d f a, Los Angeles, CA
2016   From Where I’m Standing, Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
2015   Colossalalia, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2011   Sicily, American Institute of Architects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
0000   One Work, One Artist (Hilary Baker) One Yellow Wall, Alias Books East, Los Angeles, CA
2010   Arvuli, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2006   Monday, Tuesday, Duende, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
2005   What Meets the Eye, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2004   Hilary Baker, southern california art projects and exhibitions, Corona del Mar, CA
2003   Look, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2002   Suburbia, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001   Appearing Nightly, POST, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Suburbia, Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France
2000   Wraith Tracks, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
1990   Hilary Baker, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019   Redux: Flora & Fauna: Hilary Baker and Anthony Pessler, Santora Gallery, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
2017   Hilary Baker and Russell Davis, Showcase #2, Matrushka Constructions, Los Angeles, CA
2006   Hilary Baker and Amir Fallah, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2005   EyeBlast: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2000   Gestural Maps: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, POST, Los Angeles, CA
1990   Hilary Baker and Mineko Grimmer, The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
1983   Hilary Baker and Kathy Hall, Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026   DegreeZero, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025   Special Collections ll, 515 at the Bendix, Los Angeles, CA
2024   Uncanvased, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
0000   Special Collections, 515 at the Bendix, Los Angeles, CA
2023   Kinship with Birds in Flight and Plight, Women Eco Artists Dialog, Kunstmatrix, online 3-D exhibition
0000   Los Angles Sees Itself, BIOLA University, La Mirada, CA
0000   Notions of Place, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2022   LASCAPE, prjctla, Los Angeles, CA
2021   Funhouse, r d f a, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Fummer Sun, r d f a, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Count Down, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
2020   FUNhouse, LSH_CoLAB, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Small is Beautiful, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
0000   The Tiny Biennale, Gallery of Art, Temple University, Rome, Italy
2019   Blind Courier, Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
0000   Flora & Fauna, 515 at the Bendix, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Dream House vs. Punk House (plus Cat House), Serious Topics, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Valley Girl, Redefined, Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
0000   Critters, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018   Lazy Susan 5: Human/Nature, LAVA Projects, Alhambra, CA
0000   The Tiny Biennale, Gallery of Art, Temple University, Rome, Italy
0000   Interplay: Music and the Escalette Collection, Argyros Forum, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2017   LA Woman, Saatchi Art, Santa Monica, CA
0000   Not Quite_Underground, Tattoo Parlor, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster, Germany
2016   In Which We Dwell, sUgAR Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK
0000   The Emblematic, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
0000   Fragments, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
0000   BIRDIE Invitational, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA
2015   Southern California Abstraction Now, Barrett Art Gallery of Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
0000   Writ Large, José Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Yes in My Backyard, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Petraphilia, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013   Bright Lights and the Void, Michaelkate Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
0000   MAS Attack, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Next to Nothing, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA
2012   Place, PS Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
0000   Painting on Edge II, d.e.n. contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Either Side of Gray, PS Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
2011   Ripe Produce, Santora Gallery, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
0000   Speak for the Trees, s.c.a.p.e., Corona del Mar, CA; House of Balsamic Academy, Irvine, CA
0000   Second Nature: Landscape Variations, PS Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
0000   Ucross Foundation Retrospective Exhibition, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Ucross, WY
2010   Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
0000   Red Dot New York, Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, CA
2009   Fourth of July One Week Only, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Project 30, Westminster Elementary School, Venice, CA
0000   Pairs, Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas, NV
2008   About Abstraction, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
0000   Some Paintings: The Third LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2007   Black Mirror, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Hausguests, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2005   Looking at Art, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2004   Big and Holy, Cartelle Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA
0000   Lotusland, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2003   Material Girls, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
0000   No Chaser, POST, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Is, Was, Will Be, L’Espace Melanie, Riec-Sur-Belon, France; traveled to Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France
0000   SoCal Locals, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002   Yo, Flat Files Rendezvous, POST, Los Angeles, CA
0000   The Group Show, R.B.Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001   Mass Appeal, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
0000   The Necessary Beauty, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, CA
0000   100 Percent Rag, POST, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Hand-painted, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2000   California Color, Institut Franco-Americain, Rennes, France
0000   Five Painters, R.B. Stevenson gallery, San Diego, CA
1999   Lantern of the East, Pyong Taek City Museum, Pyong Taek, Korea
1998   . . . a few more L.A. Artists (the distaff side), Mirren Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
0000   Illuminated Under White Light: Eight Painters, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1997   group, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
0000   Archaeology: Hilary Baker, Steve Galloway, Kevin Wixted, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
0000   Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation, 1991–1996, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1996   Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950’s – 1990’s, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
0000   Diversity of Contemporary Painting, Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Beyond Boundaries, Bank of America Concourse Gallery, San Francisco, CA
0000   Field Days, Cerulean Embankments, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
0000   Hilary Baker, Hanna Hannah, Marta Thoma, TERRAIN, San Francisco, CA
1995   Showgirl, Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
0000   L.A. Current: Works on Paper, Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Oscar Wilde: A Man of Great Importance, TERRAIN, San Francisco, CA
0000   Four By Nature, Gate Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
1994   Recent Gifts and Purchases: Twentieth Century Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Homage to the Bard, TERRAIN, San Francisco, CA
0000   The First Ten Years: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ucross Foundation Gallery, Clearmont, WY
0000   Sawtelle, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
1993   Laughing Matters, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992   A Room with a View, Ettinger Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
0000   L.A. Works on Paper, Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
0000   Hilary Baker, Jeffrey Mitchell and Paula Matello, Parker/Mark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
0000   (basically) Black & White, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1990   The Mark, Security Pacific Gallery, South Coast Metro Center, Costa Mesa, CA
0000   Vistas, John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

CATALOGS, BOOKS & BROCHURES

La Sees Itself, BIOLA University, 2023
Catamaran Literary Reader, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2022
Hilary Baker: Predators and Other LA Stories, introduction by Rory Devine, essay by Tucker Neel, interview by Constance Mallinson, 2021
Small is Beautiful, by Constance Mallinson, Irvine Fine Arts Center, 2020
Blind Courier, Brand Library & Art Center, essay by Julia Couzens, 2019
The Fox School of Business Art Collection, Temple University, introduction by Susanna W. Gold, PhD., 2019
Howard Gittis Student Center Art Collection, Temple University, introduction by Rebecca O’Leary, 2018
Interplay: Music and the Escalette Collection, Chapman University, essay by Sam Farmer, 2018
Catamaran Literary Reader, Vol.5, Issue 3, 2017
From Where I’m Standing, University of La Verne, essay by Julia Couzens, 2016
Southern California Abstraction Now, by Jack Chipman, Santa Monica College, 2015
Petraphilia: The Love of Stones, by Richard Turner, Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2015
New American Paintings, Pacific Coast, issue 109, 2013
The Chapman University Collections, Chapman University Press, introductions by Richard Turner and Maggi Owens, 2011
Ucross Foundation Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum, WY, introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, 2010
What Meets the Eye, Loyola Marymount University, essay by Josef Woodard, 2006
EyeBlast: Hilary Baker and Philippa Blair, Cypress College, essay by Alice Hutchison, 2005
Sexy: Sensual Abstraction In California, 1950’s–1990’s, Armory Center for the Arts, essays by John Fitz Gibbon and Pierre Picot, 1996
Laughing Matters, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, essay by Tyler Stallings, 1993
A Room with a View, Art Institute of Southern California, essay by Jim Reed, 1992

TEXT

Rubin, David S.; DegreeZero: Utopia/Dystopia in Contemporary Art, Visual Art Source, May 26, 2026
Meet Hilary Baker, Shoutout LA, April 16, 2025
Meet Hilary Baker, Bold Journey, June 7, 2024
Woodard, Josef; Animals on Our Brink, at Solvang’s Wildling Museum, The Santa Barbara Independent, November 17, 2022
Mallinson, Constance; review on Instagram at artartiq_cm, weekly reviews of Los Angeles art, October 16, 2022
Hilary Baker, Alumnx Spotlight Fall 2022, October 2022
Schomaker, Kristine; The Bird is the Word, Art and Cake, January 18, 2022
Black, Ezrha Jean; Hilary Baker: Predators – And Other L.A. Stories, Rory Devine Fine Art, Artillery, January 8, 2022
Power, Tim; Thoughts on “Predators and Other LA Stories” by Hilary Baker and “We Have Little Lives” by Robert Fontenot at rdfa, December 22, 2021
Meet Hilary Baker: Painter & Tap Dancer, Shoutout LA, May 14, 2020
Mallinson, Constance; The Poetics of Place: Blind Courier at the Brand Library, Art and Cake, August 4, 2019
Wood, Eve; Flora & Fauna, Artillery, April 30, 2019
Dambrot, Shana Nys; Dreamhouse vs. Punk House (plus Cat House), Artillery, April 10, 2019
Wood, Eve; Valley Girl Redefined at the Brand Library, Art and Cake, March 4, 2019
Check Out Hilary Baker's Artwork; Voyage LA, September 3, 2018
Neel, Tucker; Staring into the Eyes of an Animal Other: Hilary Baker's Faux Fauna Paintings, Peripheral Vision, Issue 6, 2017
Inside the Studio: Hilary Baker's paintings reflect her immediate surroundings, Canvas: A Blog by Saatchi Art, July 7, 2017
Couzens, Julia; From Where I’m Standing, University of La Verne, essay for the exhibition, 2016
Brown, Betty Ann; Offramp Gallery, February 4, 2016
Artweek LA, Previews, Hilary Baker: Colossalalia, Vol. 184, November 30, 2015
Kelly, Danielle; Housing New Hope, Las Vegas Weekly, March 19–25, 2009
Lee, Julie Perlin; Chapman University Highlights from the Collection, 2007-2008
Harvey, Doug; Some Paintings, LA Weekly, January 11, 2008
Pagel, David; Around the Galleries: Bridging Cool Pop, Hot Surrealism, Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2006
Frank, Peter; Go, LA Weekly, February 16, 2006
Geer, Suvan; Hilary Baker and Amir Fallah, ArtScene, January 2006
Woodard, Josef; The Eyes Have It, Santa Barbara News-Press, May 27, 2005
Pincus, Robert L.; Super, Natural, San Diego Union-Tribune, August 14, 2003
Pincus, Robert L.; Shapes of Things to Come, San Diego Union-Tribune, February 7, 2002
Frank, Peter; Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, March 2, 2001
Pincus, Robert L.; Loops, Swirls and Scrapings, San Diego Union-Tribune, December 7, 2000
Crosby, Gregory; Scope magazine, December 15, 1997
Greiger, Scott; Profile: Hilary Baker, Otis Alumni and Friends, Fall issue, 1996
Pagel, David; Hit-and-Miss Affair In ‘Sexy’ Show, Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1996
Auerback, Lisa Anne; Do Ya Think It’s Sexy?, LA Reader, February 16, 1996
Frank, Peter; At Angels Gate, Four Artists Take their Cue from Mother Nature, Long Beach Press-Telegram, May 21, 1995
Crosby, Gregory; Sexy, Scope Magazine, May, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1995
O’Brien, Draza Fratto; Do You Think It’s Sexy?, Las Vegas Weekly, April 25, 1995
Kapitanoff, Nancy; Fresh from the Garden, Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1994
Leddy, Pat; But Still No Joke, Artweek, April 18, Vol. 24, No. 7, 1993
Curtis, Cathy; Approaching Their Marks, Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1990
Racza, Tony; The Dimensions of Drawing, Artweek, December 6, Vol. 21, No. 41, 1990
Bulmer, Marge; East Meets West: Hilary Baker and Mineko Grimmer, Artweek, September 20, Vol. 21, No. 30, 1990
Geer, Suvan; Enlarging the Cultural Vocabulary, Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1990
Muchnic, Suzanne; Strange Territory, Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1990

AWARDS

2001   Artist-in-Residence, Pont-Aven School of Art, France
2000   Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1998   ART/OMI International Arts Center Residency, Ghent, NY
1997   Metro Art Bookmark Project, Los Angeles, CA
1996   MacDowell Fellow, Peterborough, NH
1989   Artist-in-Residence, The Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY

CURATED PROJECTS

2019   Blind Courier, Brand Library Art Gallery, Glendale, CA (co-curated with Lauren Kasmer)
1997   Archaeology, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV
1996   Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950’s–1990’s, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV (co-curated with Julia Couzens)
1995   Sexy: Sensual Abstraction in California, 1950’s–1990’s, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (co-curated with Julia Couzens)
1989   Open Windows Project, Los Angeles Festival’s Open Festival, Santa Monica, CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Angel and Neistat Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
ART/OMI, Ghent, NY
Bank of America Corporate Collection
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
Innovate Partners, Irvine, CA
JVC Industrial America, Inc., San Diego, CA / Mexico
Kanayama Minami Complex, Nagoya, Japan
Kauffman and Broad Corporate Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
LWL - Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Müenster, Germany
MacDowell, Peterborough, NH
MonteCedro, Altadena, CA
Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France
Savills Studley Corporation, New York City, NY
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
UCLA Medical Arts Program, Los Angeles, CA
Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2026   Artist Talk, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
0000   Guest Speaker, High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
2025   Guest Speaker, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, PA
2024   Earth Day Art Talk, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA
2023   Artists' Presentation, Women Eco Artist Dialog, Oakland, CA
2022   Artist’s Talk, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA
2005   Artist’s Talk, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
1996   Guest Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1993   Panelist, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986   Guest Lecturer, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
1985   Guest Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, CA
1983   Guest Lecturer, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 1976
Graduate Study, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy, 1972
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 1971

Born in Los Angeles, California, 1948
Lives and works in Ojai, California.