occupation
1996-present Professional Photographer
1994-present Exhibiting Artist
1994-present Exhibiting Artist
solo exhibitions
2020 Werkshack, Every Passing Storm, Oakland CA
2011 James Madison University, process, Harrisonburg VA
2010 Bakersfield Museum of Art, everyday garden, Bakersfield CA
2006 New Art Project, in the Garden of the Prophet, Paris, France
Togonon Gallery, everyday garden-5 years engagement with nature, San Francisco CA
2004 Locura Gallery, Transcendental Boutique, San Francisco CA
Shooting Gallery, everyday garden, San Francisco CA
2003 66balmy, Other attachments: an investigation into consumption, San Francisco CA
2002 66balmy Gallery, Patterns upon patterns, San Francisco CA
1999 Fotocircle Gallery, Patterns, Seattle WA
2011 James Madison University, process, Harrisonburg VA
2010 Bakersfield Museum of Art, everyday garden, Bakersfield CA
2006 New Art Project, in the Garden of the Prophet, Paris, France
Togonon Gallery, everyday garden-5 years engagement with nature, San Francisco CA
2004 Locura Gallery, Transcendental Boutique, San Francisco CA
Shooting Gallery, everyday garden, San Francisco CA
2003 66balmy, Other attachments: an investigation into consumption, San Francisco CA
2002 66balmy Gallery, Patterns upon patterns, San Francisco CA
1999 Fotocircle Gallery, Patterns, Seattle WA
group exhibitions
2024 Upstart Modern, Synthetic Nature, Sausalito, CA
2023 Center for Photographic Art, International Juried Exhibition, Carmel, CA
120710 Arts, Far away is NOW, Berkeley, CA
Klompching Gallery, Fresh 23, Brooklyn, NY
Incline Gallery, Launch, San Francisco CA
Center for Photographic Arts, Member’s show, Carmel CA
2022 Plaxall Gallery, Other ways of seeing, Queens NY
The Image Flow, 6th Annual Alternative Process exhibit, Mill Valley CA
KALA, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
2021 Werkshack, Radiant Landscape, Oakland CA
Center for Photographic Art, International Juried Exhibit, Carmel CA
an.ä.log, ALT-Photo, San Francisco CA
ARC Gallery, HOME, San Francisco CA
The Image Flow, 5th Annual Alternative Process exhibit, Mill Valley CA
2020 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Justice, Novato CA
de Young Museum de Young Open, San Francisco CA
Gearbox Gallery, Sanctuary, Oakland CA
Berkeley Art Center, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
2019 KALA, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
Soho Photo Gallery, 15th international Alternative Process, NY NY
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Content Matters, Novato CA
The Greenlining Institute, Trap, Trauma, Transformation, Oakland CA
The Image Flow, Two Person AIR Exhibit, Mill Valley CA
Gray loft Gallery, Something blue, Oakland CA
2018 Mills Building, Light, Paper, Process, San Francisco CA
The Gallery at the Werkshack, homesick, Oakland CA
The Image Flow, Alternative Process Photography, Mill Valley CA
Root Division, Let me be your witness, San Francisco CA
2017 Center, Art & Oppression, Santa Fe NM
The Image Flow, Alternative Process Photography, Mill Valley CA
Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Mudras by Hand Magazine, Kansas City MO
2016 The Image Flow, Alternative Process Photography, Mill Valley CA
Art Brokers Gallery, Gravity of the Heart, San Rafael CA
Hotbed, benefitting Planet Hope, Tiburon CA
2015 Photosynthesis, What’s old is new, Manchester CT
Art for Aids, San Francisco CA
Hotbed, benefitting 10,000 degrees, Tiburon CA
2014 Hotbed, benefitting 10,000 degrees, Tiburon CA
2013 Hotbed, benefitting 10,000 degrees, Tiburon CA
2012 KALA, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
SOMARTS, I am crime, San Francisco CA
2011 Incline Gallery, Manifest 770, San Francisco CA
Gallery 454, Control, San Francisco CA
Gallery 454, Handcrafted Textures, San Francisco CA
2010 Project one, Anxiety, San Francisco CA
2009 Hous Projects, Scope, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Hous Projects, mineral, New York NY
Togonon Gallery, review/preview, San Francisco CA
2007 Art Engine, exploded view, landscapes, San Francisco CA
2005 Fahrenheit Gallery, Tetanus, Kansas City MO
Photo-eye Gallery, Paper, Forest, Trees of Our Time, Santa Fe NM
Natural World Museum, Art into Action-UN World Environment Expo,San Francisco CA
111 Minna Gallery, Urban Jungle, San Francisco CA
Lola Gallery, Spiritus Mundi, San Francisco International Arts Festival, San Francisco CA
Oakland Airport Museum, environmental art showcase, Oakland CA
2004 Shooting Gallery, Benefit for the Central City Hospitality house, San Francisco CA
Create-Fixate, the photography show, Los Angeles CA
Veneer, 30 days in June; Shooting Gallery, The Erotic Show, San Francisco CA
2003 66balmy Gallery, Shot on film, San Francisco CA
Rena Bransten, Scenery, San Francisco CA
Altruity, benefitting Localpatron, Start Soma, San Francisco CA
Urban Couture benefitting Destination Foundation, San Francisco CA
2002 Roshambo Gallery+Winery, two person exhibit, Healdsburg CA
66balmy Gallery, Of, relating to, or derived from: Organic matter, San Francisco CA
2000 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Art Span Selection exhibition, San Francisco CA
1999 Crucible Steel Gallery @ Cell Space, Gradient Forms, San Francisco CA
1995 Gallery 312, Underground Chicago, Chicago IL
1994 Art Attack, American Labor, Chicago IL
2023 Center for Photographic Art, International Juried Exhibition, Carmel, CA
120710 Arts, Far away is NOW, Berkeley, CA
Klompching Gallery, Fresh 23, Brooklyn, NY
Incline Gallery, Launch, San Francisco CA
Center for Photographic Arts, Member’s show, Carmel CA
2022 Plaxall Gallery, Other ways of seeing, Queens NY
The Image Flow, 6th Annual Alternative Process exhibit, Mill Valley CA
KALA, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
2021 Werkshack, Radiant Landscape, Oakland CA
Center for Photographic Art, International Juried Exhibit, Carmel CA
an.ä.log, ALT-Photo, San Francisco CA
ARC Gallery, HOME, San Francisco CA
The Image Flow, 5th Annual Alternative Process exhibit, Mill Valley CA
2020 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Justice, Novato CA
de Young Museum de Young Open, San Francisco CA
Gearbox Gallery, Sanctuary, Oakland CA
Berkeley Art Center, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
2019 KALA, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
Soho Photo Gallery, 15th international Alternative Process, NY NY
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Content Matters, Novato CA
The Greenlining Institute, Trap, Trauma, Transformation, Oakland CA
The Image Flow, Two Person AIR Exhibit, Mill Valley CA
Gray loft Gallery, Something blue, Oakland CA
2018 Mills Building, Light, Paper, Process, San Francisco CA
The Gallery at the Werkshack, homesick, Oakland CA
The Image Flow, Alternative Process Photography, Mill Valley CA
Root Division, Let me be your witness, San Francisco CA
2017 Center, Art & Oppression, Santa Fe NM
The Image Flow, Alternative Process Photography, Mill Valley CA
Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Mudras by Hand Magazine, Kansas City MO
2016 The Image Flow, Alternative Process Photography, Mill Valley CA
Art Brokers Gallery, Gravity of the Heart, San Rafael CA
Hotbed, benefitting Planet Hope, Tiburon CA
2015 Photosynthesis, What’s old is new, Manchester CT
Art for Aids, San Francisco CA
Hotbed, benefitting 10,000 degrees, Tiburon CA
2014 Hotbed, benefitting 10,000 degrees, Tiburon CA
2013 Hotbed, benefitting 10,000 degrees, Tiburon CA
2012 KALA, Artist’s Annual, Berkeley CA
SOMARTS, I am crime, San Francisco CA
2011 Incline Gallery, Manifest 770, San Francisco CA
Gallery 454, Control, San Francisco CA
Gallery 454, Handcrafted Textures, San Francisco CA
2010 Project one, Anxiety, San Francisco CA
2009 Hous Projects, Scope, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Hous Projects, mineral, New York NY
Togonon Gallery, review/preview, San Francisco CA
2007 Art Engine, exploded view, landscapes, San Francisco CA
2005 Fahrenheit Gallery, Tetanus, Kansas City MO
Photo-eye Gallery, Paper, Forest, Trees of Our Time, Santa Fe NM
Natural World Museum, Art into Action-UN World Environment Expo,San Francisco CA
111 Minna Gallery, Urban Jungle, San Francisco CA
Lola Gallery, Spiritus Mundi, San Francisco International Arts Festival, San Francisco CA
Oakland Airport Museum, environmental art showcase, Oakland CA
2004 Shooting Gallery, Benefit for the Central City Hospitality house, San Francisco CA
Create-Fixate, the photography show, Los Angeles CA
Veneer, 30 days in June; Shooting Gallery, The Erotic Show, San Francisco CA
2003 66balmy Gallery, Shot on film, San Francisco CA
Rena Bransten, Scenery, San Francisco CA
Altruity, benefitting Localpatron, Start Soma, San Francisco CA
Urban Couture benefitting Destination Foundation, San Francisco CA
2002 Roshambo Gallery+Winery, two person exhibit, Healdsburg CA
66balmy Gallery, Of, relating to, or derived from: Organic matter, San Francisco CA
2000 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Art Span Selection exhibition, San Francisco CA
1999 Crucible Steel Gallery @ Cell Space, Gradient Forms, San Francisco CA
1995 Gallery 312, Underground Chicago, Chicago IL
1994 Art Attack, American Labor, Chicago IL
selected bibliography
Analog Forever, Edition 8, Summer 2023, 12 page article
Feature Shoot, Solar photograms Imagine a Haunting Vision of the Future, Ellyn Kail, April 17 2023
Analog Forever, Edition 7, Winter 2022
Diffusion, Volume X, One Twelve Publishing, 2021
deYoung Fine Arts, artist profile, deYoung members magazine, Winter- Spring 2021
The Racket, The Racket Journal, volume 27, cover image, November 2020
Sara Biel and Karla Brundage, Colossus: Home Anthology, Collosus Press, 2020
contributor, Divergents Magazine, Summer 2020, full page photo
Jill Einfield, guide to Photographic Alternative Process, 2nd ed., March11 2020
contributor, full cover image, The Hand Magazine, issue 25, July 2019
contributor, Seities, winter / spring issue 18/19, February 2019
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 23, January 2019
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 21, July 2018
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 19, January 2018
Collier Brown, “Francis Baker against time”, The OD Review, v.2.12, July 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 17, July 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 16, April 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 15, January. 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 14, Oct. 2016
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 13, July 2016
Impulsion, Texworld, Messe Frankfurt, autumn/winter ©2015
Out the Door, Humans in Nature, Conduit magazine, summer 2009
Randy Rosenberg, Art in Action-nature, creativity and our collective future, Palace Press 2007
Erin Clark, Root of All Ideas, ARTWORKS Magazine, Winter 06
Malin Fabbri, Blueprint to cyanotypes-exploring historical alternative photographic process, 2006
Sharon Mizota, Strange root, cover: Books and Arts supplement - SF Weekly, 6-28-06
Theresa Bembnister, ‘Tetanus’ blurs line between beauty and spoil, Kansas City Star, 11-10-05
Lindsey Westbrook, Spiritus Mundi at Lola Gallery, Artweek Magazine, September 05
Regina Hackett, Natural meets Supernatural in exhibits of startling imagination, Seattle Post Intelligencer, 9-02-05
Lindsey Westbrook, Francis Baker at the Shooting Gallery, Artweek Magazine, May 04
Noelle Oxenhandler, “Cold hard Cash and the Middle Way”, Tricycle Magazine, Summer 04
“Art collector”, Vodka Magazine, April/May 04
Josh Greene, “Garden Variety”, 7X7 Magazine, March 04
Lindsey Westbrook, “critic’s choice”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 6-11-03
Jonathon Keats, “Art’s Hip New Mission”, San Francisco Magazine, June 03
“66balmy recharges the Mission art scene”, San Francisco Examiner, 5-30-02
Cynthia Rose, The Seattle Times, 7-08-99
Feature Shoot, Solar photograms Imagine a Haunting Vision of the Future, Ellyn Kail, April 17 2023
Analog Forever, Edition 7, Winter 2022
Diffusion, Volume X, One Twelve Publishing, 2021
deYoung Fine Arts, artist profile, deYoung members magazine, Winter- Spring 2021
The Racket, The Racket Journal, volume 27, cover image, November 2020
Sara Biel and Karla Brundage, Colossus: Home Anthology, Collosus Press, 2020
contributor, Divergents Magazine, Summer 2020, full page photo
Jill Einfield, guide to Photographic Alternative Process, 2nd ed., March11 2020
contributor, full cover image, The Hand Magazine, issue 25, July 2019
contributor, Seities, winter / spring issue 18/19, February 2019
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 23, January 2019
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 21, July 2018
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 19, January 2018
Collier Brown, “Francis Baker against time”, The OD Review, v.2.12, July 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 17, July 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 16, April 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 15, January. 2017
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 14, Oct. 2016
contributor, The Hand Magazine, issue 13, July 2016
Impulsion, Texworld, Messe Frankfurt, autumn/winter ©2015
Out the Door, Humans in Nature, Conduit magazine, summer 2009
Randy Rosenberg, Art in Action-nature, creativity and our collective future, Palace Press 2007
Erin Clark, Root of All Ideas, ARTWORKS Magazine, Winter 06
Malin Fabbri, Blueprint to cyanotypes-exploring historical alternative photographic process, 2006
Sharon Mizota, Strange root, cover: Books and Arts supplement - SF Weekly, 6-28-06
Theresa Bembnister, ‘Tetanus’ blurs line between beauty and spoil, Kansas City Star, 11-10-05
Lindsey Westbrook, Spiritus Mundi at Lola Gallery, Artweek Magazine, September 05
Regina Hackett, Natural meets Supernatural in exhibits of startling imagination, Seattle Post Intelligencer, 9-02-05
Lindsey Westbrook, Francis Baker at the Shooting Gallery, Artweek Magazine, May 04
Noelle Oxenhandler, “Cold hard Cash and the Middle Way”, Tricycle Magazine, Summer 04
“Art collector”, Vodka Magazine, April/May 04
Josh Greene, “Garden Variety”, 7X7 Magazine, March 04
Lindsey Westbrook, “critic’s choice”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 6-11-03
Jonathon Keats, “Art’s Hip New Mission”, San Francisco Magazine, June 03
“66balmy recharges the Mission art scene”, San Francisco Examiner, 5-30-02
Cynthia Rose, The Seattle Times, 7-08-99
exhibitions curated
2023 120710 Arts, Far away is NOW, Berkeley, CA
awards
Klompching- Fresh 23- exhibit award
Honorable mention- Center for Photographic Arts 2022 International Juried Exhibit
KALA Art Institute – Parent Fellowship award 2019-2020
The Image Flow – Artist In Residency 2018
KALA Art Institute – Artist In Residency 2012
Honorable mention- Center for Photographic Arts 2022 International Juried Exhibit
KALA Art Institute – Parent Fellowship award 2019-2020
The Image Flow – Artist In Residency 2018
KALA Art Institute – Artist In Residency 2012
education
1990 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Bachelor of Science - Physics