BRIDGET BAKER

Born in 1971 in East London, South Africa. Based in London and . www.bridgetbaker.co.za

BUREAU DE CINÉMA AFRICAIN (collaboration with Bianca Baldi)

2013 Aerolithe Illusion, at Goethe on Main, , ZA.

ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITION

2012 The Remains of the Father - Fragments of a Trilogy (Transhumance), MAMbo, Bologna, Italy. Curated by Elisa del Prete. 2012 Steglitz House, Galerie GUM, Bielefeld, Germany. Curated by Gabriele Undine Meyer. 2011 Wrecking at Private Siding 661, Christian Ferreira at the Wapping Project, London, UK. 2009 Bridget Baker, Centro des Artes Contemporanea, Burgos, Spain. 2008 But we look so good in our uniforms. Diet Gallery, Miami, USA. 2007 Bridget Bæker , Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. 2006 But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again. Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. 2001 Official BB Project. University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery, Stellenbosch, ZA. 2000 As if you've never seen it before. Artists Unlimited Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany. 1997 Bridget Baker BAFA(Stell.), BA. Hons.(FA)(Stell.), MFA (UCT) cand. The Hänel Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. 1996 The Shrill sound of a telephone at 3 a.m. The Planet Contemporary Art Site, Cape Town, ZA.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Subject as Matter, The New Church, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Penny Siopis. Works included are by Robin Rhode, Wim Botha, Lynette Yiadom-Boabye, Georgina Gatrix, Walter Battiss and Willem Boshoff. Dak’Art 2012, Dakar, Senegal. Mine, DUCTAC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates and University of Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa. A selection of films by South African artists including Dineo Seshee Bopape, Jacques Coetzer, Teboho Edkins, Simon Gush and Dorothee Kreutzfelt, William Kentridge, Donna Kukama, Nandipha Mntambo, Robin Rhode, Berni Searle, Lerato Shadi, Penny Siopis, Gregg Smith, Johan Thom and Michael McGarry. Curated by Abrie Fourie. Found Footage Festival curated by Monica Dell’Asta, Bologna, Italy. Including films by Matthias Muller, Joseph Cornell, Cecile Fontaine, Abigail Child, Lana Lin, Barbara Hammer. 2011 A Natural Selection: 1991-2011. Part 2 at the Association for the Visual Arts, Cape Town. 40 year retrospective exhibitions. Curated by Clare Butcher. International Competition of the 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. Curated by Lars Henrik Gass and Hilke Doering. Lens: fractions of contemporary photography and video in South Africa, Sasol Art Museum, South Africa. Including work by Andrew Putter, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Husain and Hasan Essop, Jo Ractliffe, Kathryn Smith, Pieter Hugo, Stephen Hobbs, Steven Cohen, and . Curated by Ulrich Wolff and Corlia Harmsen. Glasgow Short Film Festival with the The Magic Lantern, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Mine, Iwalewa-House, Afrikazentrum der Universität Bayreuth, Germany. A selection of films by South African artists including Dineo Seshee Bopape, Jacques Coetzer, Teboho Edkins, Simon Gush and Dorothee Kreutzfelt, William Kentridge, Donna Kukama, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi, Robin Rhode, Berni Searle, Lerato Shadi, Penny Siopis, Gregg Smith, and Johan Thom. Curated by Abrie Fourie and Dr. Anna Schrade. 2010 US at The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Bettina Malcomess and Simon Nijami. Home Sweet Home, Homebase Project, Berlin, Germany. A screening of international video art including Maurice Bogaert, Félix Fernández & Andrés Senra, Katherine Rojas, Maxim & Romy Northover, Ane Lan, and David Theobald. Curated by Johnny Amore (GlogauAIR). Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, the Bow Arts Trust, London, UK. Screening of recent moving image work including Michael Mazière, Rosie Pedlow and Joe King, Reynold Reynolds, and Jeremy Evans. Curated by Cinzia Cremona and Tessa Garland. Berwick Film and Media Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK. Curated by Professor Huw Davies. Shifting Realities, Halle Zehn, CAP Cologne, Cologne, Germany. A photography-based show including the work of Seung Woo, Ute Bartel, Michael Baumgarten, Boris Becker, Martina Geccelli, Susa Templin, Won Seoung Won. Curated by Barbara Hofmann-Johnson. Home Sweet Home, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany. A screening of international video art including David Blandy, Duro Toomato, Wayne Horse, Nina Lehtonen-Braun, Zefrey Throwell, Ane Lan. Curated by Johnny Amore (GlogauAIR). South Africa 2010 - Video Screening shown at the following venues: Gallery 3,14 Bergen, Norway ISIS ARTS, Newcastle on Tyne, UK. Curated by Mei Szetu and Sharon Bailey (ISIS Arts, UK and Maur Prosjekter, Gallery 3,14 and BEK Norway). 2009 Dada South? The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith. US, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA. Curated by Bettina Malcomess and Simon Nijami. Intimate Distance, The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Nadja Daehnke. Sing into my Mouth, What if the World Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Julia Clark. 2008 za. Giovane arte dal Sud Africa. Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Fusi. 2007 Uniform. The Spanierman Contemporary, New York, USA. Curated by Claire Breukel. 2007 Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Sudafrika / Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa Neue Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin, DE), Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Chemnitz, DE), Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen (Sindelfingen, DE), Museum Bochum (Bochum, DE) Germany and The South African National Gallery (Cape Town, ZA). Curated by Pam Warne. 2006 Women: Photography and New Media. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA. Curated by Jeanine Howse and Amy Watson. Tour. Galerie Hilger Contemporarie, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Claire Breukel. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep a again. KZNSA Gallery, Durban, ZA. Second to None. The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Gabi Ncobo and Virginia McKenny. Nie Meer. De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium. Curated by Ives Maes and Steven Op de Beeck. 2005 Official BB Mittens Project. Artists Unlimited Gallery, Hochbunker, Bielefeld, Germany. Official BB Project in absentia MMV. Klein Karoo Kunstefees / Little Karoo Art Festival, Oudstoorn, ZA. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht. GNO (Girls Night Out), Joao Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Tracy Gander. 2004 Contra Mundi. The Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht. Decade of Democracy. The National Art Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Emma Bedford. 2003 Official BB Mittens Project. Gallery Puta, Greenpoint, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Andrew Lamprecht, Cameron Platter and Ed Young. 2002 Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa. The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Curated by Frank Herreman. Buzzards. Klein Karoo Kunstefees / Little Karoo Art Festival, Oudstoorn, ZA. 2001 Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa. The Iris & B.Gerald Cantor Centre for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California, USA. Curated by Frank Herreman. 2000 Holland South Africa Line. The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Andrea Rolfes and Arend-Jan Weysters. Holland South Africa Line. Baggagehal, Loods 6,Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Curated by Andrea Rolfes and Arend-Jan Weysters. Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa. The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA. Curated by Frank Herreman. Total Global. Contemporary Art Museum, Basel, Switzerland. 1999 Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa. The Museum for African Art, New York, USA. Curated by Frank Herreman. Softserve. The National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Public Eye. Oos Wes, Tuis Bes. Klein Karoo Kunstefees / Little Karoo Arts Festival, Oudsthoorn, ZA. Curated by Mark Coetzee and Lize Hugo. Channel. The Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Robert Weinek and Gregg Smith. Unplugged IV. The Rembrandt Van Rijn Gallery, Newtown Precinct, Johannesburg, ZA. 1998 Graft. The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. Curated by Colin Richards. (2nd Johannesburg Biennale - Trade Routes: History and Geography. Curated by Okwui Enwezor). 1997 Unplugged II. The Rembrandt Van Rijn Gallery, Newtown Precinct, Johannesburg, ZA. Lifetimes: Art from Southern Africa. Aktionsforum, Paterinsel, Munich, Germany. Curated by Ruth Sack. 1996 3x10. The Hänel Gallery, Shortmarket Street, Cape Town, ZA- 3x10. Curated by Robert Weinek.

PROJECTS / FAIRS / PERFORMANCES

2012 10th edition of the Gender Bender Festival, Bologna, Italy. (27 October - 3 November 2012). FNB Johannesburg Art Fair, an expanded cinema project Only Half Taken presented in collaboration with curator Amy Watson. 2010 ArtSantander, in association with Galerie Siboney, Santander, Spain. ARCO, Madrid. In association with Galerie Siboney. 2007 Scope Hamptons Art Fair, Long Island, New York, a gallery exhibition in association with Spanierman Modern, New York, USA. 2006 Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy, a gallery exhibition in association with Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Liste ’06, Basel, Switzerland, a gallery exhibition in association with Joao Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. 2004 Vooruit Art Centre, Gent, Belgium, - South Africa: Ten years after Apartheid. A Flanders Film Festival curated by Barbara Raes. The Blue Collar Girl (Gent) performed at the, The Vooruit Art Centre, Gent, Belgium. Realisation in association with Vooruit Art Centre, Belgium. 2003 Very Real Time, a public art project initiated and produced by Gregg Smith. A RAIN initiative taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. 2001 Homeport, an international harbour city public art project taking place in Havana, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Mumbai, Jarkata and Cape Town. This component of the project takes place at the V&A Waterfront and Cape Town Harbour, South Africa. 1997 Art Cologne, Germany, a gallery exhibition in association with The Hänel Gallery, Frankfurt. The District Six Public Sculpture Project, District Six, Cape Town.

RESIDENCIES

2011/12 Nosadella.due, Bologna, Italy. Willums Art Foundation and Myriam Blundell Projects, Mas des Graviers, Pourrieres, France. 2008 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, USA. 2006 CRIC (Centre de reflexion sur l’image et ses contextes), Sierre, Switzerland. 2004 Vooruit Art Centre, Belgium. 2003 Very Real Time, Cape Town, South Africa. 2000 Holland South Africa Line, Cape Town, South Africa. 2000 Holland South Africa Line, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2000 Artists Unlimited Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany.

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Artlogic, Johannesburg, ZA. Billiton Board, Johannesburg, ZA. Vanessa Branson, London, UK. CAB, Centro de Artes Contemporanea de Burgos, Spain. Charles Bothner and Marianne Fassler, ZA. Ellerman House, ZA. Graaff, Cape Town, ZA. Wendy Fisher. Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria. Inhouse Brand, Cape Town, ZA. Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA. Ketterer, London, UK. Lötschentaler Museum, Kippel, Valais, Switzerland. MAMbo, Bologna, Italy. Old Mutual, Cape Town, ZA. Hans Porer, Switzerland. Rand Merchant Bank, Johannesburg, Za. Richard and Ruth Shack, Miami, USA. Maria Ramos and Trevor Manuel, Cape Town, ZA. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA. Spanierman, New York, USA. Standard Bank of South Africa, Johannesburg, ZA. Starkmann, London, UK. Suburban Films, Johannesburg, ZA. Piet Viljoen, Cape Town, ZA. UNISA, University of South Africa, Pretoria, ZA. Whitman, Dallas, USA.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS

. Developing Images of Self: Childhood, Youth and Family Photographs in Works by Three South African Women article by Brenda Schmahmann, African Arts, vol. 45, no. 4 Winter 2012. . Art South Africa Vol10.2, review by Alexander Dodd, edited by Bronwyn-Law Vijoen. . South African Art Now, by Sue Williamson, Harper Collins. . Bridget Baker, an exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the solo show at CAB (Centro de Arte Contemporanea), Burgos, Spain. . .ZA Giovane Arte Dal Sudafrica, exhibition catalogue. Edited by Lorenzo Fusi, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena. . “Do South Africans Really Exist?”, an article by Kathryn Smith for Artists Profile, 2007. . Zeitgenössische Fotokunst Aus Sudafrika Alexander Tolnay (ed). 2007. . Neuer Berliner Kunstverein und Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg. . Liste 2006, a review by Sidonio Costa in Arte Aldia (International Magazine of Contemporary Latin American Art), issue 115, 2006. . Wish You Were Here an article written by Ernst Beck, edited by Luna Shyr, Art & Auction . June 2006, volume XXIX no.10. Art South Africa Vol4.4, June 2006. Edited by Sean O’Toole. . But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again. An exhibition catalogue Text by Kathryn Smith. . Very Real Time, edited by Gregg Smith and Sara De Bondt. . 10 years 100 artists: art in a democratic South Africa, edited by Sophie Perryer. . KKNK 2002 edited by Clive van den Berg, Kathryn Smith and Lucia Burger. . The Weave of Memory: Siemon Allen’s ‘Screen’ in Postapartheid South Africa, an article written by Andrés Mario Zervigón for Art Journal – Spring 2001. . The Newest Avant-Garde, an article written by Barbara Pollack for ARTnews, April 2001. . Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art from South Africa, edited by Frank Herreman, assisted by Mark D'Amato. . The District Six Public Sculpture Project edited by Crain Soudien and Renate Meyer. . Trade Routes: History and Geography by Okwui Enwezor. . Art in South Africa: Future Present by Sue Williamson and Ashraf Jamal.

AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS 1995 Maggie Laubser Bursary from Stellenbosch University. Research Bursary from Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). 1996-7 Irma Stern Scholarship from . Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) bursary. 1999 Department of Trade and Industry grant. 2011 National Arts Council, South Africa.

EDUCATION B.A and Honours in Fine Art at the University of Stellenbosch. 1990 – 1993 / 1995