Justin Baker grew up in Greenwich, NY. He attended Sage Jr. College of Albany for two years and studied photography. The next two years were spent playing music and writing songs with his friends. Purchase College came next, where his artistic strides led him to printmaking and, again photography. In 2007 Justin received his MFA with a concentration in combined media at SUNY Albany. Justin teaches digital imaging and web art and design at Hudson Valley Community College, he is also the host and creator of the arts focused podcast, Art Town. He currently lives in Wynantskill, NY with his wife Kyra, daughters Lola and Rona, cats Lulu and Lilly and dog Luna.
To contact Justin Baker: baker.garrigue@gmail.com
EDUCATION
- 1995 – 1997 Sage Junior College of Albany, Albany, NY
Associates In Applied Science concentration in photography
- 1998 – 2001 Purchase College, SUNY Purchase, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts concentration in printmaking
- 2004 – 2007 SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
Master of Fine Arts concentration in combined media
PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
- 2021 Mohawk Hudson Regional, Purchase Award, Albany, NY
- 2021 Construction/Structures, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
- 2020 In a blue time, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
- 2019 41th Photo Regional, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
- 2018 Faculty Exhibit, Teaching Gallery, Troy, NY
- 2018 Mohawk Hudson Regional, Jurors Award, Albany, NY
- 2016 Selected Works, BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 2015 Means, Motive, Opportunity, The Front, New Orleans, LA
- 2015 Howdy Doody, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
- 2015 Selected Works, BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY
- 2014 Abstracted Reality, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, NY
- 2014 In a Country Without Maps, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
- 2013 Photographic Being, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, NY
- 2013 Family Blood, Yates Gallery, Siena College, Loudonville, NY
- 2013 VOX IX, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
- 2013 Trust In Me, Field Projects Gallery, NYC, NY
- 2012 Faculty Exhibit, Teaching Gallery @ HVCC, Troy, NY
- 2012 34th Photo Regional, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
- 2012 Historical Past, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
- 2012 34th Photo Regional, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
- 2011 After School Special, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
- 2010 Eyeless in Gaza, Selected works from 2008-2009, McGreevy ProLab, Albany, NY
- 2010 Mohawk Hudson Regional, Glens Falls, NY
- 2009 Mohawk Hudson Regional, Jurors Award, Albany, NY
- 2009 31st Photo Regional, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
- 2008 Gallery Saintonge, "New Peoples", Missoula, MT
- 2008 30th Photo Regional, Albany Center Gallery, NY
- 2008 Arts Center of the Capital Region, "Fresh Picked", group show of
recent MFA graduates.
- 2007 CDFI Gallery, curator for the group show "In The Room"
- 2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Award of Excellence, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
- 2005 Mohawk Hudson Regional, Juror's Award, Albany, NY
- 2004 Mohawk Hudson Regional, Schenectady, NY
- 2004 Sage College, selected drawings, Albany, NY
- 2003 Mohawk Hudson Regional, Juror's Award, Albany, NY
- 2002 – 2003, Studio Gallery 425, new work exhibit, Hollywood, FL
- 2002 Art Without Walls, sculptural exhibit for works on the beach in conjunction with Basel Miami, Miami Beach, FL