Lorenzo Baker                                                                       

1991                           Born in Sacramento, CA., USA

                           Resides and works in Los Angeles, CA., USA

Education 

2018                           Painting & Drawing, MFA in Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2014                           BA in Arts/ Business Management, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA., the United States of America

 

Solo exhibitions

2024                           in the palaces beneath the sand, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA., the United States of America

2018                           CELEBRATE, Erica Broussard Gallery, Santa Ana, CA., the United States of America

2018                           im just playin, , Helen and Abraham Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

 

Selected group exhibitions

2024                           Untold Legacies: Rethinking the American Cowboy, Rancho Los Cerritos, Long Beach, CA., the United States of America

2024                           Ellsworth Artist Residency Alumni Group Exhibition, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2023                           Ellsworth Artist Residency Group, Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2022                           Reverberation, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2020                           Personal Contact II, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2019                           Lion’s Shadow: In Tribute to Jules Lion, Stella Jones Gallery - New Orleans, LA.,  the United States of America 

2019                           Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2019                           PØST: Kamikaze, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2018                           The New Contemporaries Vol. 1, Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2017                           no longer negotiable, nous tours, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2017                           UCLA Fall MFA Themed Exhibition: i am erica, New Wight Gallery - Los Angeles, CA., the United State of America’

Awards

2026                           Mosaic Art Award 2026 – 1st place , Ares Management, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2024                           Society for Photographic Education Award , The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA., the United States of America

2024                           98th ANNUAL International Competition (Semifinalist) The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA., the United States of America

2024                           Plum Lime Residency Program (finalist), NYC Crit Club, New York, NY., the United States of America

  

Art fairs

2022                           Felix Art Fair, represented by Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America 

2025                           TRYST Art Fair, represented by Plomo, Mexico City, the United Mexican States

Residencies

2025                           Rondo Artist Residency, Mexico City, the United Mexican States

2023                           Quinn Emanuel Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

2023                           Ellsworth Artist Residency, Artshare LA, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America Selected collections

2023                           Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Los Angeles, CA., the United States of America

Selected press

Samantha Diaz, “Ranchos Los Cerritos’ new exhibit highlights Black, Mexican and Indigenous cowboy culture” (2024) at Signal Tribune [https://sigtrib.com/ranchos-los-cerritos-exhibit-untold-legacies-cowboy/] consulted on 11 July, 2024.

“The Most unusual place I’ve installed a piece? Forty feet up in a tree’ John Quinn on his inside-out approach to art” in The Art Newspaper (2024).

Shelley Holcomb, 7 Must-See Galleries and Exhibitions to Visit in Los Angeles this Black History Month https://medium.com/@curate.LA/7-must-seegalleries-and-exhibitions-to-visit-in-los-angeles-this-black-history-month-74f465ca9712] consulted on 02,February 2024.

Kate Abbott, “Lorenzo Baker collages the past and future” in btw berkshires (2022) at [https://btwberkshires.com/arts/visual-arts/lorenzo-bakercollages-the-past-and-future/] consulted on 7 December, 2022.

SAM Issue #4 Umber Magazine (2020). 

 

Selected Professional contributions

 

2024                           Tomayko Foundation, Adaptation Screening Program, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburg, PA, the United States of America

2022                           February, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, MCLA Art Lab, North Adams, MA, the United States of America

2021                           Guest Speaker, In the Artist’s Studio, Museum of African Diaspora (MOAD)

2021                           African American Heritage Month Calendar, The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

2017                           Co-curator, blacklight, Los Angeles, CA, the United States of America.

2016                           Art Corps Fellow, Block by Block, The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.

Television and Media

2022                           Bel Air, Season 1 Episode 10: "Where To?", Peacock

2022                           Bel Air, Season 1 Episode 9: "Can't Knock The Hustle", Peacock