About Gracie Baer
Gracie is an artist who works with sculpture, lens-based media, sound, and environmental installation. Her practice parallels human and non-human habits while subverting mythologies and religious iconographic histories. Investigating the domination of nature and femme-aligned bodies, she creates environments of incantation and imagery of performative mythos. She received her MFA in Sculpture & Intermedia at the University of Iowa, where she was awarded the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Summer Fellowship and the LA Tad Jenson European Sculpture Travel scholarship to study wood carving at Geisler-Moroder Woodcarving School in Elbigenalp, Austria. Baer has been an artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Kansas Field Art Forum. Her work has been published in Analog Forever Magazine and Borderline Press Common Ground Zine, among others. She was awarded 3rd place in Safekeeping: Surface Design Association exhibition with Juror Anita Fields, exhibited at 108 Contemporary in Tulsa, OK. She has also exhibited at the Vernon Filley Art Museum, and the Southeast Museum of Photography.
Contact:
baer.gracie@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
2024 Master of Fine Arts Sculpture & Intermedia, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2023 Master of Arts in Sculpture & Intermedia, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2018 Bachelor of Science in Photography, The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
RESIDENCIES
2022 Kansas Field Art Forum, Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission and M12 Studio, Inaugural Group Pratt, KS
2020 Atlantic Center for the Arts With Stetson University, New Smyrna Beach, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 reciprocity among, Richard S. & Jeanne S. Levitt Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2021 Formication, Ana Mendieta Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2019 Corporeal Worth, the Avifauna, Abraxas Books, Daytona Beach, FL
GROUP SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS
2023 Safekeeping: Surface Design Association Juried Exhibition, 108 Contemporary | Tulsa, OK
2023 Sculpture and Intermedia Open House, Faculty and Graduate Student Highlight, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2022 Kansas Field Art Forum Resident’s Exhibition, Vernon Filley Art Museum, Pratt, KS
2022 Process, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2022 We Need Fibers Now, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2022 Sculpture and Intermedia Open House, Levitt Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2021 Hang in There, Baby, Levitt Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2019 Florida Showcase 2019, Snap!, Orlando, FL
2019 Files & Film, Mize Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
2018 SO IT GOES, Canal Street, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2018 Thesis, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
2017 Arno Minkkinen Workshop & Student Exhibition, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
2016 Departures, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
AWARDS
2023 3rd Place, Safekeeping: Surface Design Association Juried Exhibition, Juror Anita Fields
2023 Paula Patton Grahme Scholarship, The University of Iowa
2023 The University of Iowa’s Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio Summer Fellowship
2023 L.A. Tadd Jensen European Sculpture Travel Scholarship, The University of Iowa
2022 Len Everitt Award for Excellence, The University of Iowa
2021 Len Everitt Award for Excellence, The University of Iowa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Surface Design Association Textile Talk, Safekeeping Awarded Artist Talk
2022 Ana Mendieta Universal Energy, Exhibition and Film Screening, Director & Curator, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2022 Ana Mendieta The Nature Inside, films of Mendeita and Raquel Cecelia Mendieta, The University of, Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2022 Sculpture and Intermedia Open House, The University of Iowa, Levitt Gallery, Eve Drewlowe Gallery, and Atriums Gallery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
Aug. 2021 - Present Instructor of Record, Introduction to Intermedia, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
June 2018- Mar. 2020 Administrative Assistant, Halifax Historical Museum, Daytona Beach, FL
May 2015 - Aug. 2016 Museum Clerk / Gallery Attendant, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
2022 Borderline Press, Common Ground Issue 1 | Selected Artist
2022 The Daily Iowan, Interview for Group exhibition, Hang in There Baby