BIOGRAPHY
Natalie Baxter (b. 1985, Lexington, KY) received her MFA from the University of Kentucky in 2012 and a BA in Fine Art from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally with recent shows at Denny Dimin Gallery in both New York and Hong Kong, The New York Historical Society, The Torrance Art Museum, and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, New York State Council for the Arts grant recipient, and twice awarded the Queens Art Fund Grant. Press for Baxter’s work includes, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb Magazine.
// EDUCATION
2012 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY; SCHOOL OF ART & VISUAL STUDIES // MFA — Lexington, KY
2007 UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH; SEWANEE // BA in Studio Art — Sewanee, TN
2005 UNIVERSITY OF SYRACUSE, FLORENCE // art history abroad program — Florence, Italy
// SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 SAINT KATE, Backbone — Milwaukee, WI
2021 INTERNATIONAL GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Homefront — Anchorage, AK
2020 ELIJAH WHEAT SHOWROOM + INTERSECT SOFA CHICAGO, Spread Eagleism — Newburgh, NY
SPRING/BREAK, GUNS GUNS GUNS — New York, NY
2018 LORIMOTO, She Shed — Queens, NY
NEXT TO NOTHING GALLERY, Warm Gun — New York, NY
CUNSTHAUS, Power Play — Tampa, FL
ELIJAH WHEAT SHOWROOM, TrollLolLol — Brooklyn, NY
2017 PURDUE UNIVERSITY FOUNTAIN GALLERY, Clearly Confused — Lafayette, IN
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, CARLOS GALLERY, Fired Up — Sewanee, TN
APPALSHOP GALLERY, Warm Guns & Bloated Flags — Whitesburg, KY
2016 INSTITUTE 193, OK-47 — Lexington, KY
WILD GOOSE FARM, Gun Show — Kent, CT
// MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2024 MATTATUCK MUSEUM, (Re) Work It! Women Artists on Women's Labor — Waterbury, CT
2023 SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM, Homespun — New Paltz, NY
2021 21C MUSEUM HOTEL, Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending — Louisville, KY
TORRANCE ART MUSEUM, Social Fabric — Torrance, CA
NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, Marker, Emblem, Symbol, Signal — New York, NY
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM, Who Really Cares? — New Paltz, NY
2020 PENSACOLA MUSEUM OF ART, I Forgot To Laugh — Pensacola, FL
2019 BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART, Barbie: Dreaming of a Female Future — Birmingham, AL
2018 MUSEUM OF DESIGN, Making Change: The Art & Craft of Activism — Atlanta, GA
2017 SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES, Guns: Loaded Conversation — San Jose, CA
CORNELL ART MUSEUM, Old School Square, Fabricated — Delray Beach, FL
// SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024. WASSAIC PROJECT, I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws — Wassaic, NY
2023 BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Stuffed — Boston, MA
VSOP PROJECTS, Four Rooms — Greenport, NY
ARTS WESTCHESTER, The Social Fabric — White Plains, NY
2022 HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY, Summer in the City — New York, NY
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE, — Chautauqua, NY
SUPERMARKET FAIR, with Konstepidemin — Stockholm, SE
DENNY DIMIN GALLERY HK, Lunairan — Hong Kong
2021 TEMPUS PROJECTS, Leave Your Body and Soul at the Door — Tampa, FL
STANDARD SPACE, Country Comes to Town — Sharon, CT
SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW, Female Alchemy + Witches Get Stitches — New York, NY
WHITE ROCK CENTER FOR SCULPTURAL ARTS, Summer Invitational III — Holmes, NY
TIGER STRIKES ASTROID, Big Body Play — Greenville, SC
NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Marker, Emblem, Symbol, Signal: Artists Reflect on the Flag — New York, NY
DENNY DIMIN GALLERY, Fringe — New York, NY
CARLOW UNIVERSITY, I Forgot To Laugh — Pittsburg, PA
2020 THE WASSAIC PROJECT, All Out / All In — Wassaic, NY
UNDERCURRENT PROJECTS, The Confidence Game — Online on Artsy
AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Time Change / Change Time — Auburn, AL
ALABAMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, A Different Kind of Weapon — Mobile, AL
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, How Will They Know We Were Here? — Waltham, MA
STANDARD SPACE, Mess — Sharon, CT
VICTORI + MO, Armed Disposal — New York, NY
DOMINIQUE GALLERY + PUSH PROJECTS, Healing Feeling — Los Angeles, CA / online
KRUPIC KERSTING GALLERY, Hunter/Killer — Cologne, Germany
MATERIAL ART FAIR, with Beverly’s — Mexico City, Mexico
ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, Domestic Displays — Meadville, PA
SCHOOL FOR VISUAL ARTS, Femmephilia — New York, NY
2019 GLORIA’S PROJECT SPACE, Pocket Object — Queens, NY
DE BALIE, #TeamFemke — Amsterdam, NL
184 PROJECT SPACE, Suffer Better — Brooklyn, NY
ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Losing Control — Athens, GA
BALTIMORE ANTIQUES & ART FAIR — Baltimore, MD
GUTSTEIN GALLERY at SCAD, The Artist as Muse — Savannah, GA
THE RYMER GALLERY, Dangerously Close to Weaving — Nashville, TN
BG GALLERY, Uncommon Threads — Santa Monica, CA
LOBO GALLERY, Soft Grit — Brooklyn, NY
THE RYMER GALLERY, Disarmed — Nashville, TN
LEXINGTON ART LEAGUE, Aurora — Lexington, KY
2018 MYRNA LOY GALLERY, Voice, Being & Belonging (two woman with Christina Erives) — Helena, MT
THE ANTI ART FAIR, solo booth curated by Elijah Wheat Showroom — London, England
TROUT GALLERY at DICKINSON COLLEGE, Unloaded — Carlisle, PA
HERRON SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN, Stuff(ed) — Indianapolis, IN
FJORD GALLERY, Object Permanence — Philadelphia, PA
SMACK MELLON, Laugh Back — Brooklyn, NY
GHOST GALLERY, Bed Show — Brooklyn, NY
BYRON SCHOOL OF ART, Let Her Rip — Mullumbimby, Australia
STøRPUNKT, Post-Feminism — Munich, Germany
DESSOUS, The Armory Show — Vienna, Austria
HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY, Vexillum: Flags as Cultural & Political Objects — Reno, NV
GROUND FLOOR GALLERY, Women at Work — Brooklyn, NY
BEVERLY’S, Wendy Let Me In — New York, NY
RESONATOR GALLERY, Fire and Fury — Norman, OK
KEYSTONE ART SPACE, Trash Talk — Los Angeles, CA
SCHAUFENSTER GALLERY, Paingame — Berlin, Germany
2017 THE MIDWAY GALLERY, Bow — San Fran, CA
SEARS PEYTON GALLERY, Light in the Dark — New York, NY
YALE UNIVERSITY, Branford College Gallery, Broad Stripes & Bright Stars — New Haven, CT
ARTSWESTCHESTER, Give Us The Vote — White Plains, NY
WAYFARERS GALLERY, Woven — Brooklyn, NY
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Fired Up, Melted Down — New York, NY
HARRIS ART GALLERY, University of La Verne, Unloaded — La Verne, CA
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER GALLERY, Bitter Candy — Johnson, VT
WOSKOB FAMILY GALLERY at Penn State, Home Economics — State College, PA
ELY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Broad Stripes and Bright Stars — New Haven, CT
SHIVA GALLERY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Weapon of Choice — New York, NY
WASSAIC PROJECT MAXON MILLS GALLERY, Vagabond Time Killers — Wassaic, NY
LORIMOTO GALLERY, Particular Process — Queens, NY
SANTA CLARITA CITY HALL GALLERY, Stars and Stripes Imagined — Santa Clarita, CA
MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Unloaded — Minneapolis, MN
AA COLLECTIONS, Very Far Away From Anywhere Else — Vienna, Austria
TROUT GALLERY, Dickinson College, Unloaded — Carlisle, PA
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT MECA, Unloaded — Portland, ME
PARIS ON PONCE in partnership with DASHBOARD, Unloaded — Atlanta, GA
KNOCKDOWN CENTER, Nasty Woman Exhibition — Queens, NY
2016 ALISON MILNE GALLERY, Pretty / Peculiar — Toronto, ON
REDLINE GALLERY, Accessory (A Gun Fad) — Denver, CO
A+E STUDIOS, This is NOT a Safe Space — New York, NY
IN ERSTEN, We Gave Our Best… Now the Rest is Up to the Hope Chest — Vienna, Austria
WASSAIC PROJECT, Appetite for Destruction — Wassaic, NY
// SELECTED AWARDS + GRANTS + RESIDENCIES
2023 NYSCA, Support for Artists grant award
2023 IASPIS RESIDENCY, Swedish Arts Grant, Göteborg, Sweden
2022 STOVE WORKS RESIDENCY, Chattanooga, TN
WASSAIC ARTIST RESIDENCY, Wassaic, NY
2020 QUEENS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, New Work Grant recipient
WASSAIC ARTIST RESIDENCY, Wassaic, NY
2018 QUEENS COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, New Work Grant recipient
WASSAIC ARTIST RESIDENCY, Wassaic, NY
2017 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER residency fellowship recipient
CANAL STREET MARKET residency
2016 WASSAIC ARTIST RESIDENCY, Wassaic, NY
EMMY NOMINATION for CBS documentary, “Faith, Hope & the Burden of Addiction”
HARVARD’S PLURALISM PROJECT photography winner
2011 JAMES S. BROWN GRANT awarded for film work done in Appalachia
UK APPALACHIAN RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM winner Appalachian arts showcase
2010 KENTUCKY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN artist enrichment grant recipient
2007 CROSS CULTURAL AWARD recipient for film work done in Jamaica
// VISITING ARTIST + LECTURER
WASSAIC PROJECT, artist talk — Jan 2021
RUKUS, Big Talkers panelist: Can Art Save Us? — Dec 2020
AUBURN UNIVERSITY, artist talk — Oct 2020
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, artist talk — Oct 2020
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK, artist talk + workshop — Feb 2020
ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, artist talk + panel discussion — Jan 2020
PAINTED CLOUD, studio talk + workshop — Nov 2019
21C MUSEUM HOTEL LEXINGTON, artist talk — March 2019
SAYRE SCHOOL, artist talk + workshop — March 2019
PARADICE PALASE, artist talk + screening, Curated Artist Cinema series — Jan 2019
SMACK MELLON, artist talk in conjunction with Laugh Back exhibition — Aug 2018
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Panelist + Featured Artist, Gun Violence, Trauma, & Resiliency — Feb 2018
CREATIVE MORNINGS LEXINGTON, Guest Speaker, Channeling Anxieties — Jan 2018
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, Guest Lecturer — Oct 2017
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH; SEWANEE, Guest Lecturer — Nov 2017
// SELECTED PRESS
THE NEW YORKER, review of the exhibition Fringe at Denny Dimin Gallery — August 3, 2021
ARTNET NEWS, 15 Artist-Mothers on Balancing Work and Family After a Year Like No Other — Jan 4, 2021
BOSTON GLOBE, How to mark women’s suffrage centennial? For these artists, it’s fighting for the future — July 10, 2020
ARTEMORBIDA, Textile Arts Magazine, The Textile Sculptures of Natalie Baxter— June 15, 2020
NUMBER: INC MAGAZINE, Issue 103, Craft & the Creative South, Interview: Natalie Baxter — Summer 2020
OBSERVER, A Lack of Excess Makes Spring/Break This Season’s Best Fair — March 3, 2020
HYPERALLERGIC, Spring/Break Art Show Is a Work of Art Worth Diving Into — March 2020
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE, Always on the Look Out: Mexico City Art Week 2020 — Feb 2020
ARTNET NEWS, Editors’ Picks: 20 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week — Jan 20, 2020
A BIG IMPORTANT ARTIST: A WOMANUAL, Danielle Krysa (aka The Jealous Curator) —- Fall 2019
NASHVILLE SCENE, Dangerously Close to Weaving Is a Proud Celebration of Textile Art — June 2019
VOGUE ITALIA, Assemblage Column — Nov 2018
DOMINO MAGAZINE, Pillow Talk — Fall 2018
A VERY IMPORTANT ART BOOK: NOW WITH WOMEN!, Danielle Krysa (aka The Jealous Curator) — Fall 2018
PARADISO, Issue 4 — June 5, 2018
HISS MAG, Issue 2 — March 3, 2018
BOMB MAGAZINE, One Piece — Feb 20, 2018
GINGER ZINE, Issue 11 — Jan 12, 2018
ARTSY, 11 Artists Using Embroidery in Radical Ways — Nov 21, 2017
THE NEW YORK TIMES, What to See in New York Galleries This Week — July 9, 2017
HUFFINGTON POST, What It Means To Be An Artist In The Time Of Trump — Nov 17, 2016
THE GUARDIAN & THE LONDON OBSERVER, Gun control? Softly does it — Nov 14, 2016
HUFFINGTON POST, The Soft, 'Impotent' Gun Sculptures Taking On Toxic Masculinity — Nov 7, 2016
HYPERALLERGIC, Pillowy Gun Sculptures Take Aim at US' Culture of Violence — April 12, 2016
VICE'S THE CREATORS PROJECT, Meet the Artist Quilting Flaccid Pink AK-47s — March 23, 2016
BUSTLE, This Female Artist is Turning Guns Into Hand-Stitched Pillows — Jan 11, 2016