Benjamin J Baker
Personal Profile:
Exhibiting and practicing multi-disciplinary Artist and Arts Worker from Melbourne.
Experienced with curatorial practices, installation, gallery practices and arts administration
Education
Mount Eliza Secondary College: Graduated 2008
Diploma of Visual Art, Chisholm TAFE 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art), Victorian College of the Arts, 2017
Cert IV in Training and Education (TAE400116), Melbourne Polytechnic, 2021
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, 2022
Solo Exhibitions
Kinetics of ... Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germany 2013
Warm movements in Sunshine Brunswick Arts Space 2014
Semester One Ovens St Factory Space, 2015
The Things I Do Not Say Site Specific installation 2016
Until I share common things & a common sun Chamber Gallery 2017
Velvet Dissonance Lupine Studios 2018
fogged TCB Gallery 2019
Desire Lines AN.ARI 2023
Group Exhibitions
2013
Explorations, Chiasma Schweller 7, Berlin
KONKORDIA. DAUERPERFORMANCE #1 Schaustelle, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2014
Iconoclast Exit Strategy Studio, Brunswick
Creative Moreland Brunswick Arts Space
2015
Field of Thought VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts
WOR(L)DS VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts
Remedy Performance, Curated by Jon Campbell
Proud 2015 Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2016
Worlding VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts
Winter 1706 Off Site Art Exhibition, Abandoned Apartment Suites, South Melbourne
So Fresh VCA Art Space, Victorian College of the Arts
Proud 2016 Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2017
The List Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Annual Fundraiser Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
Became; Become; Becoming; Studio 18, Gertrude Contemporary
An Act of Showing, "Re-thinking Artists Initiatives Through Space" Testing Grounds
Proud 2017 Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Turbulent Exposure Junior Space Gallery
Closing Salon Junior Space Gallery
Graduate Exhibition Victorian College of the Arts
2018
Newer18 Trocadero Arts Space
Coming Soon 2 West Space Gallery
I Can Breed No More Chamber Gallery
Idolatry SOMA Gallery
Glimmer Red Gallery
No Play The Band Presents, Docklands Art Precinct
Annual Fundraiser, Trocadero Art Space
2019
Annual Fundraiser, Seventh Gallery
The Process of Making, West Space Gallery
2020
Bodies Apperceived, Gallery Boot
2021
Soft (Yours, Queerly) , Sawtooth ARI, Launceston
2022
A Space is Held (Curator) Trocadero Projects, Bluestone Church, Footscray
Queer My Head, The DAX Centre, Parkville, Melbourne
Text Tile, Caves Gallery, Melbourne
DAS BOOT: Artist Car Boot Fair, ACCA Forecourt, Melbourne
Don't Be A Stranger, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
Graduate Exhibition (Honours) The VCA, 2022
2023
West Space Fundraiser
AN.ARI Fundraiser
Bus Fundraiser
Published
Cluster Magazine Issue 2, 2016
An Act of Showing, "Re-thinking Artists Initiatives Through Space", Testing Grounds, 2017
Currently:
West Space Gallery, CBD: 2019 - Present
Gallery Assistant
Volunteer Positions:
Trocadero Art Space, Footscray: 2018
Install Co-Ordinator
Committee Member