Karen Baker was born in Lawton Oklahoma and lives in Honolulu Hawaiʻi. She received her BFA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her work in photography examines the impact of human intervention on the erasure of land and culture. The images are social landscapes incorporating the natural perspective; however, they are distinctly not about the natural world. Ms. Baker mixes documentarian traditions of lens-based capture with appropriated images from popular culture. In blurring the boundaries between high and low art forms, she contemplates the role of photography as a commodity in and of itself.
BIO
Exhibition History
GROUP
2020 Dab Art Co. Art In The Time of Corona, https://www.dabart.me/atc-exhibit-page.
2020 Griffin Online Exhibition, 26th Juried Show, https://www.dabart.me/atc-exhibit-page.
2020 Camera USA 2020, Naples Art, Naples, FL
2020 UHM BFA 2020, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, http://www.uhmbfa.com
2020 BFA Show 2020, stp, Serving the People, https://stp.world/pages
2016 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2015 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2013 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2012 The Perfect Exposure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Snap To Grid, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
2008 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
SOLO
2017 Family Vacation,Town, Honolulu, HI
2013 Family Vacation, Mayhem, Mag Pi, Studio City, CA
2012 Family Vacation, City Center,Fox Studios Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Family Vacation,DKRM Gallery West, Santa Monica, CA
COMISSIONS
2017 Da Babiʻi, 30, 7”x10” photographs, Surfjack Hotel, Honolulu, HI
COLLECTIONS
2017 The Waiea Grand Penthouse, Ward Village, Honolulu, HI
AWARDS
2019 Wired, Monochrome International Black & White Photography Award
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Periodicals
2020 Mary Snyder, “Karen Elizabeth Baker, Photographer”, Q&A: An Interview
Magazine, Issue #1, August 2020, page #56-57
2020 Elizabeth Collazos, “A New Normal…sort of!”, Gemma Magazine, April 5, 2020
https://www.instagram.com/gemmamagazine/?hl=en
Reviews
2009 “The Kid Stays in the Picture: Karen Bakerʻs The Baby Socks it to Us”
Peter Frank, Senior Curator, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA