Teresa Baker

Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa, b. 1985, Watford City, ND, USA) is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in Western, ND and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Through a mixed media practice combining AstroTurf, buffalo hide, yarn, bark, and paint, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see and explore within them. 
 
Baker's practice engages directly with the formal language of abstraction, whereby her paintings are not transparent windows into territory, but folded spaced of inheritance and engagement; they ask how abstraction can carry weight, not only aesthetic weight, but cultural, historical, embodied weight.  What emerges is a moving and generous invitation to consider how we transport landscapes with us, not just across geography, but through time, spirit, and form.
 
Baker's work is held in numerous collections;  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; the Forge Collection, NY and The Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM. In 2023 Baker’s work was included in ‘Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living’ at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the sixth iteration of the biennial exhibition.

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