Occupation
1996–present Professional Photographer
1994–present Exhibiting Artist
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
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
2025 Gray Loft Gallery, The Art of Clouds, Oakland, CA
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
120710, Far Away is NOW, Berkeley, CA
Center for Photographic Art, Members 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, New York, 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
F r a n c i s B a k e r CV francis@francisbaker.com
The Gallery at the Werkshack, Home Sick, 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, SF
111 Minna Gallery, Urban Jungle, San Francisco, CA
Lola Gallery, Spiritus Mundi, SF International Arts Festival, SF
Oakland Airport Museum, Environmental Art Showcase, Oakland, CA
2004 Shooting Gallery, Benefit for the Central City Hospitality House, SF
Create:Fixate, The Photography Show, Los Angeles, CA
Veneer, 30 Days in June; Shooting Gallery, The Erotic Show, SF
2003 66balmy Gallery, Shot on Film, San Francisco, CA
Rena Bransten, Scenery, San Francisco, CA
Altruity / Start Soma, Benefitting Localpatron, San Francisco, CA
Urban Couture, Benefitting Destination Foundation, SF
2002 Roshambo Gallery + Winery, Two Person Exhibit, Healdsburg, CA
66balmy Gallery, Of, Relating To, or Derived From: Organic Matter, SF
2000 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ArtSpan Selection Exhibition, SF
1999 Crucible Steel Gallery @ Cell Space, Gradient Forms, SF
1995 Gallery 312, Underground Chicago, Chicago, IL
1994 Art Attack, American Labor, Chicago, IL
Collaborations
2025 SFMOMA Koret Education Center, The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must –
Leah Rosenberg (photographic collaboration), San Francisco, CA
2025 Gray Loft Gallery, The Art of Clouds, Oakland, CA
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
120710, Far Away is NOW, Berkeley, CA
Center for Photographic Art, Members 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, New York, 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
F r a n c i s B a k e r CV francis@francisbaker.com
The Gallery at the Werkshack, Home Sick, 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, SF
111 Minna Gallery, Urban Jungle, San Francisco, CA
Lola Gallery, Spiritus Mundi, SF International Arts Festival, SF
Oakland Airport Museum, Environmental Art Showcase, Oakland, CA
2004 Shooting Gallery, Benefit for the Central City Hospitality House, SF
Create:Fixate, The Photography Show, Los Angeles, CA
Veneer, 30 Days in June; Shooting Gallery, The Erotic Show, SF
2003 66balmy Gallery, Shot on Film, San Francisco, CA
Rena Bransten, Scenery, San Francisco, CA
Altruity / Start Soma, Benefitting Localpatron, San Francisco, CA
Urban Couture, Benefitting Destination Foundation, SF
2002 Roshambo Gallery + Winery, Two Person Exhibit, Healdsburg, CA
66balmy Gallery, Of, Relating To, or Derived From: Organic Matter, SF
2000 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ArtSpan Selection Exhibition, SF
1999 Crucible Steel Gallery @ Cell Space, Gradient Forms, SF
1995 Gallery 312, Underground Chicago, Chicago, IL
1994 Art Attack, American Labor, Chicago, IL
Collaborations
2025 SFMOMA Koret Education Center, The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must –
Leah Rosenberg (photographic collaboration), San Francisco, CA
Exhibitions curated
2023 120710 Arts, Far away is NOW, Berkeley, CA
2023 120710 Arts, Far away is NOW, Berkeley, CA
Selected bibliography
Analog Forever, Edition 8, Summer 2023, 12-page article
Analog Forever, Edition 7, Winter 2022
Diffusion, Volume X, One Twelve Publishing, 2021
Fine Arts, artist profile, Winter- Spring 2021
The Racket, The Racket Journal, volume 27, cover image, November 2020
Sara Biel and Karla Brundage, Colossus: Home Anthology, Colossus Press, 2020
contributor, Divergents Magazine, Summer 2020, full page photo
Jill Einfield, guide to Photographic Alternative Process, 2nd ed., March 11, 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
Collier Brown, “Francis Baker against time”, The OD Review, v.2.12, July 2017
Impulsion, Texworld, Messe Frankfurt, autumn/winter ©2015
Out the Door, Humans in Nature, Conduit magazine, summer 2009
Randy Rosenberg, Art in Action, Palace Press, 2007
Erin Clark, Root of All Ideas, ARTWORKS Magazine, Winter 06
Malin Fabbri, Blueprint to cyanotypes, 2006
Sharon Mizota, Strange root, cover: Books and Arts supplement - SF Weekly, 6-28-06
Theresa Bembnister, 'Tetanus' blurs the line between beauty and spoil, KC Star, 11-10-05
Lindsey Westbrook, Spiritus Mundi at Lola Gallery, Artweek Magazine, September 05
Regina Hackett, natural meets Supernatural, 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, June 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
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 Residence 2012
Analog Forever, Edition 8, Summer 2023, 12-page article
Analog Forever, Edition 7, Winter 2022
Diffusion, Volume X, One Twelve Publishing, 2021
Fine Arts, artist profile, Winter- Spring 2021
The Racket, The Racket Journal, volume 27, cover image, November 2020
Sara Biel and Karla Brundage, Colossus: Home Anthology, Colossus Press, 2020
contributor, Divergents Magazine, Summer 2020, full page photo
Jill Einfield, guide to Photographic Alternative Process, 2nd ed., March 11, 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
Collier Brown, “Francis Baker against time”, The OD Review, v.2.12, July 2017
Impulsion, Texworld, Messe Frankfurt, autumn/winter ©2015
Out the Door, Humans in Nature, Conduit magazine, summer 2009
Randy Rosenberg, Art in Action, Palace Press, 2007
Erin Clark, Root of All Ideas, ARTWORKS Magazine, Winter 06
Malin Fabbri, Blueprint to cyanotypes, 2006
Sharon Mizota, Strange root, cover: Books and Arts supplement - SF Weekly, 6-28-06
Theresa Bembnister, 'Tetanus' blurs the line between beauty and spoil, KC Star, 11-10-05
Lindsey Westbrook, Spiritus Mundi at Lola Gallery, Artweek Magazine, September 05
Regina Hackett, natural meets Supernatural, 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, June 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
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 Residence 2012
Education
1990 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Bachelor of Science - Physics
1990 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Bachelor of Science - Physics