Bio
Anthony Baab holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Cornell University (‘09) and a BFA in Painting from The Kansas City Art Institute (’04). He is Professor of Practice in Painting and Drawing at Tulane University. Baab’s work has been exhibited at Grand Arts (Kansas City), Dan Graham (Los Angeles), and Three Walls (Chicago) and has been included in several permanent collections including: The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum and The Microsoft Collection. Recently he was awarded a Fellowship for The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown and Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing (’15). Publications include: The Pitch (cover story), NewCity Art, The Denver Post, and The Kansas City Star.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU NO LONGER KNOW WHAT GOOD IS?, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (details)
2017 Cover the Earth IV, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Cover the Earth III, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (details)
2015 Cover the Earth II, Three Walls, Chicago, IL
2015 Cover the Earth I, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014 Ummagumma, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (details)
2013 A Strenuous NonBeing, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
2009 The Yule Log, Tjaden Gallery Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2008 Growes, Cornell University’s Tjaden Hall Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2006 Zealothrone Mindfield, with Colin Leipelt, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2003 Holy Mountains and Holy Craters, Old Post Office Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Group exhibition, Newman University, Wichita, KS
2015 You People, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (details)
2015 Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2014 On Behalf of One's Obsessions, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (details)
2014 Constructing Images Post-Photography, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, CO
2014 Kansas City Collection III, Traveling exhibition, Kansas City, MO, KS
2013 Open, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO (details)
2013 Thanks For The Warning, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2013 Group Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2012 Kansas City Flat Files, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2012 I Aim Too High, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2012 XOXO Salon Show, Spray Booth Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011 Push, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011 Be Good or Be Gone, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011 Tompkins Projects West, Collaboration between Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY and Dan Graham Los Angeles, CA, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Gimme Shelter, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2010 Kansas City Flat Files, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2010 New Work, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010 Arrival/Departure, La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
2010 Of the Air, MCC-Longview Cultural Arts Center, Lee’s Summit, KS
2009 Abstraction Ain’t Dead, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2009 New Now: Building The Museum Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary, Overland Park, KS
2009 Art, Overland Park, KS
2009 Cornell Graduate Exhibition, Cornell University College of Architecture Art and Planning, New York, NY
2007 KCAI Corporate Partnership Exhibition Program, Traveling show, MO
2006 Charlotte Street Award Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2005 Kansas City Flat Files, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2005 Built Against Site, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2005 A Hairy Tale, Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2004 Boundary Creatures, Jewish Museum, Overland Park, KS
2004 Ungood, Shaw Hofstra, Kansas City, MO
2004 Kansas City Art Institute BFA Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2004 Intended Dialogue, Shawnee Gardens, Shawnee Mission, KS
2003 8th Annual Undergraduate Show, Juried exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
2002 The Beard Show, Kansas City Art Institute Printmaking Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002 Gallery on the Go, A Mobile Gallery, Kansas City Metro area organized by Kansas City Art Institute students and Adrianne Herman, Kansas City, MO