Daniel Baker

Born 1961. Lives and works in London.

Solo Exhibitions and Projects

2009 Suspect, FEINKOST, Berlin
2008 The New Gilt, FEINKOST, Berlin
2008 Interfere, five week Residency at Centre for Drawing Project Space,
Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, London
2006 lookinglass, Novas Gallery, London
2005 No Travellers, Victoria Hall, Oakham, Rutland
2003 Bodies, Corn Exchange Gallery, Newbury
2000 Romani Jivapen Jinapen, bronze medal commissioned by BAMS, British Museum

Group Exhibitions and Projects

2010 SIDESHOW, York Art Gallery, York, upcoming
2009 (as yet untitled) Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria - Gasteiz

2009 Reality sandwiches, artnews projects, Berlin

2009 Ventriloquist, curated by Emma Dexter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

2009 Lo sguardo di Giano, curated by Francesco Stocchi, American Academy in Rome

2009 The Forgotten Europeans, Museum of the City of Cologne, Cologne
2008 Volta 4, Basel, FEINKOST, Berlin
2008 Volta 4, Basel, Steinle Contemporary, Munich
2008 Paint Lab, Royal College of Art, London
2008 Paradise Lost, Kampa Museum, Prague
2008 Paradise Lost, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Brussels
2008 Acts & Actions, Café Gallery, London
2008 Viennafair, Vienna, FEINKOST, Berlin
2008 Kairos, Aflred Topfer Foundation FVS, Hamburg
2007 Travellers, Gallery Steinle, Munich
2007 Artissima, Turin, FEINKOST, Berlin
2007 CHAVI, Novas Gallery, London
2007 Nature and Society, Ethnographic Museum, Dubrovnik and Glyptotheque, Croation Academy of Science and Art, Zagreb
2007 Venice Biennale, contributor and consultant to Roma Pavilion Paradise Lost, www.romapavilion.org
2007 Prague Biennale, Refusing Exclusion, http://praguebiennale.org/3/eng/
2007 Productive Matter, Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London
2007 No Gorgios, co-curator at Novas Gallery, London
2007 Paranoia, Freud Museum, London. www.aionarap.org
2007 What are Feelings for?, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2006 Contemporary Gypsy, group show, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent
2006 Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery & Focal Point Southend Kent
2006 Second Site, Stephen Lawrence Gallery London, Appleby and Stowmarket
2005 When in Rome V, Third Floor Gallery, Southampton
2005 When in Rome IV, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
2004 When in Rome III, Castlefields Art Gallery, Manchester
2004 When in Rome III at Homeland, Spacex Gallery and concurrent venues around Exeter
2004 Passing Places, exhibition of Gypsy and Traveller Culture, Hertford Museum
2003 When in Rome I, Art House Gallery, London
1999 Paintings at Beardsmore gallery, London.
1997 Oriel Mostyn open exhibition, Llandudno, Wales.
1997 Royal Over-Seas League open exhibition, London and Edinburgh.
1996 DROM, a multimedia collaboration exploring Gay Romani identity, funded by the London Arts Board, performed at The Place Theatre, London.
1995 Toynbee Hall, London.

Papers and talks

2007 Artist’s talk, Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstrasse 1, 80538 Munich
2007 ‘Roma visuality and the significance of the Roma Pavilion’, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice
2007 ‘Roma art, Fiction or Function?’ (dis)located subjects, (re)defined communities:
Politics of representation and the role of the art in the age of global mobility,
Roma Pavilion, Venice
2003 ’Silenced Voices’ – Delivered paper on Gypsy identity at PEN event, Royal Festival Hall, London

Press & Bibliography

Breaking beyond the local; the function of an exhibition, Third Text, Picturing Gypsies; an interdisciplinary approach to Roma representation. Vol. 22, issue 3, No 92, May 2008
Fiona MacDonald, All Roads Lead to Roma, Metro, 5.9.07
Agnes Bihari, A szabadsag letelepitett vandorai, Nepszabadsag, 8.8.07
Aaron Moulton, Some Black Sea Pavilions, Flash Art, July 2007, Vol. XL No.255
Sandra Kemp, research rca, the Royal College of Art, London, 2007
Victor Misiano, Paradise Lost, Domus, May 2007, issue 903,
Timea Junghaus, Paradise Lost; the First Roma Pavilion, Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2007
Andrew Hunt, Paranoia, Art Monthly, Feb 2007, issue no 303
Colin Martin, Paranoid Visions, The Lancet, 3.2.2007
Peter Conrad, Paranoid? This lot really ought to be, The Observer, 28.1.2007
Andrew Graham-Dixon, Carefully Deranged, The Sunday Telegraph, 21.1.2007
Timea Junghaus, Meet Your Neighbours, Contemporary Roma Art from Europe, Directory of UK Romany Artists, for The Open Society Institute, 2006
Funny ha ha, (This essay commented on media representation of Roma, for Catalyst magazine, The Campaign for Racial Equality), 8.12.2006
http://www.catalystmagazine.org/Default.aspx.LocID-hgnew0o4.RefLocID-0hg01b001006009.Lang-EN.htm
Abigail Dunn, Catalyst Magazine, 7.7.2006
Alfred Hickling, Paranoia, The Guardian, 5.7.2006
Sarah Vine, Second Site – the Caravans roll into town, The Times, Section 2, 27.2.2006

Education

2006-10 PhD Royal College of Art, London - ‘Site Unseen: The role of Gypsy Aesthetics in the transmission of Cultural Agency’

2002 MA Gender and Ethnic Studies