occupation
1996-present    Professional Photographer
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

group exhibitions
2024     Duncan Miller Gallery, The Art of Gum Bichromate, Los Angeles, CA
               East Bay Photo Collective, The Spectrum of Intent, Oakland, CA
               Startup 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

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

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

education
1990 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Bachelor of Science - Physics

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