GEORGE BAKER

Corsicana, Texas, 1931.

EDUCATION

A.B., Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1958.
M.F.A., University of Southern California, 1960.

TEACHING

University of Southern California, 1960-1964.
Occidental College, Professor of Sculpture, 1964-present.

INVITATIONS AND GRANTS

• Sculpture Symposium, Expo '70, Osaka, Japan.
  
• Artist in Residence, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program),
  West Berlin, 1971-1972 & Fall 1975.
  
• Artist in Residence, West Texas State University, 1978.
  
• 1994 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue, Washington

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selected)

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  
• Museum of the Twentieth Century, Vienna
  
• West Texas State University
  
• La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
  
• GTE Corporation, Westlake, California
  
• TransAmerica Corporation, Los Angeles
  
• Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Museum (prev. Hakone
  
• Open Air Museum), Japan
• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  
• Greater Los Angeles World Trade Center,Long Beach
  
• Price-Waterhouse Corporation, Los Angeles
  
• Hycor Biomedical Corporation, Irvine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

• Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
  
• Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles
  
• Galerie Springer, West Berlin
  
• Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich
  
• Landau Allen Gallery, New York
  
• Bonn Cultural Center, Bonn, Germany
  
• University of Louvain, Belgium
  
• Wenger Gallery, La Jolla & Los Angeles
  
• Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities,
  
• Sun Valley, Idaho

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

• Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
  
• GE Corporation, Schenectady, New York
  
• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
  
• Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles

COMMISSIONS (selected, last ten years)

• 1986 23' high indoor motorized sculpture, GTE Corporation, Westlake Village, California.
• 1987 8' high indoor motorized sculpture, TransAmerica Corporation, Los Angeles.
• 1988 23' high indoor suspended motorized sculpture, Princess Cruises,
  installed on new cruise liner Star Princess.
• 1989 15' high outdoor kinetic fountain, IDM Development\Kajima, installed in the main plaza,
  Greater Los Angeles World Trade Center, Long Beach, California.
• 1990 limited edition of forty table-top kinetic sculptures, commissioned for sale by
  the Art Museum Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• 1991 24' long fountain, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
• 1994 Interior cantilevered sculpture for Hycor Biomedical Inc., Irvine, California.
• 1994 Purchase prize, City of Bellevue Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition,
  Bellevue, Washington, 18' high wind sculpture.
• 1995 Interior motorized sculpture for Southern Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1996 20' high wind sculpture for the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art,
  Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

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