Richard Baker Painting

Richard Baker (b. 1971, Hull, UK) lives and works in Leeds. He holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University (2003) and a Masters Degree in Creative Practice from Leeds Arts University (2018). His quiet, unpeopled and modestly scaled paintings depicting objects of mid-century furniture have been exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Including at museums across China, The San Francisco Arts Institute, the National Museum of Poland in Gdansk, the Mall Galleries, London, The Walker Gallery, Liverpool and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 2024 he was awarded the Discerning Eye Regional Prize for the North of England. He won the Wells Art Contemporary Patron’s Prize in 2020 and the Hix Award in 2019. He was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize, 2020, and was runner up in the London Contemporary Art Prize, 2019. He was selected to exhibit at the Marmite Prize for painting, 2016 and the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition, 2018. His work is included in the Priseman-Seabrook collection of 21st Century British painting.