Bridget Baker

1971, born East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa

1993, received B.A.F.A., Stellenbosch University

1996, received B. Hons. (FA), Stellenbosch University

Resides in Cape Town, South Africa

Selected solo exhibitions

The Planet Contemporary Art Site, Observatory, Cape Town, The Shrill Sound of a Telephone at 3 a.m., 1996.

The Hänel Gallery, Cape Town, Bridget Baker—BAFA(Stell.) BA. Hons. (FA)(Stell.), MFA (UCT) cand., 1997.

The Artists Unlimited Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany, As if you’ve never seen if before, 2000.

The University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Official BB Project, 2001.

Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again, 2006.

KZNSA Gallery, Durban, But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again, 2006.

Selected Group Exhibitions / Projects / Performances

Fringe Show at the First Johannesburg Biennale, 1995.

The Hänel Gallery, Cape Town, 1996.

The Twinkly Sea Project (Mother City Queer Projects), The River Club, Observatory, Cape Town, installation, 1996.
Newtown Galleries, Johannesburg, Future Prospects, 1996.

The Planet Contemporary Art Site, Observatory, Cape Town, Portraits, 1996.

Art Cologne, Germany, Bridget Baker—BAFA(Stell.) BA. Hons. (FA)(Stell.), MFA (UCT) cand. (in association with The Hänel Gallery. Frankfurt), 1997.
South African Art Festival, Munich, Germany, SA Lifetimes, 1997.

District Six, Cape Town, The District Six Public Sculpture Project, 1997.

The Rembrandt Van Rijn Gallery, Johannesburg, Unplugged II, 1997.

The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Second Johannesburg Biennale, October 1997-January 1998).

Sandton Civic Gallery, Johannesburg, PGSI Project: Family Ties, 1998.

Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town, Club, an interactive club-culture event, March 20, 1998.The Museum for African Art, New York, Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, 1999.

The National Gallery, Cape Town, Softserve, a multi-media evening, 1999.

Oudsthoorn Arts Festival, Oos Wes, Tuis Best, March 25-31, 1999.

The Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, Channel, a video-art exhibition, 1999.

The Rembrandt Van Rijn Gallery, Newton Precient, Johannesburg, 1999.

The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, Holland South Africa Line, 2000.

Baggagehal, Loods 6, Amsterdam, Holland South Africa Line, 2000.

Austin Museum of Art, Texas, Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, 2000.

Victoria & Alfred Waterfront and Cape Town Harbour, Cape Town, Homeport, an international harbour city public art project; traveled to Havana, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Jarkata, 2001-2.

The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Cente for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, 2001.

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, 2002.

Klein Karoo Art Festival, Oudsthoorn, South Africa, Buzzards, a collaborative performance piece with Marlaine Tosoni and Mara Verna, 2002.

Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, Picnic, 2003.

Cape Town Residency, a one-month international public art project, Very Real Time (dvd of Extra Soles produced during this residency), 2003.
Gallery Puta, Cape Town, Official BB Mittens Project, 2003.
Flanders Film Festival, The Vooruit Art Centre, Gent, Belgium, The Blue Collar Girl (Gent), 2004. Performed in the City of Cape Town at the Old Mutual Building, 2004.
The Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, Extra Souls, 2004.
The National Art Gallery, Cape Town, Decade of Democracy, 2004.
Sasol Museum of Art, Stellenbosch, 40, 2004.
Old and New Delhi, India, The Blue Collar Girl (Delhi), 2005.
20 Years of Artists Unlimited, Hochbunker, Bielefeld, Germany, Official BB Mittens Project, 2005. Maputo Harbour, Maputo, Mozambique, The Blue Collar Girl (Maputo), 2005.
Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, Official BB Mittens Project, 2005.
Klein Karoo Kunstefees, Oudstoorn, Official BB Project in absenthia MMV, 2005.
Joao Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town, GNO, 2005.
Joao Ferreira, Turin, Italy, Artissima, 2006.
Galerie Hilger Contemporarie, Vienna, Tour, 2006.
Durban City Hall and Davinscot Manufacturers, Tongaat, 2006.
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Second to None, 2006.
Joao Ferreira Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, Liste ’06, 2006.
De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium, Nie Meer, 2006.
Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Emergence and Emergency, January-February 2007; will travel to the following venues in Germany: Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, and Museum Bochum.
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Selected References

Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal, “Art in South Africa: Future Present.”

Okwui Enwezor, “Trade Routes: History and Geography.”

Crain Soudien and Renate Meyer (ed), “The District Six Public Sculpture Project.”

Frank Herreman and Mark D’Amato, “Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa.”

Barbara Pollack, “The Newest Avant-Garde,” ARTnews (April 2001).

Andrés Mario Zervigón, “The Weave of Memory: Siemon Allen’s ‘Screen’ in Postapartheid South Africa,” Art Journal (Spring 2001).

Clive van den Berg, Kathryn Smith and Lucia Burger, “KKNK 2002.”

Sophie Perryer (ed), “10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa.”

Gregg Smith and Sara De Bondt (ed), “Very Real Time.”

Kathryn Smith, “But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.”

Sean O’Toole (ed), Art South Africa 4 (June 2006).

Ernst Beck, “Wish You Were Here,” Art and Auction 24 (June 2006).


Awards

1993 Artist of the Year Award, University of Stellenbosch

1995 Maggie Laubser Bursary from Stellenbosch University. Research Bursary from Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

1996-97 Irma Stern Scholarship from University of Cape Town. Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) bursary
1999 Department of Trade and Industry bursary

Selected Collections

Billiton Board

Johannesburg Art Gallery

Old Mutual

South African National Gallery, Cape Town

University of South Africa