Emerita Baik
Contact
@metal.princesss
emeritabaik@gmail.com
Education
Masters of Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York City, 2025
BFA (Hons), Massey University, Wellington, 2018
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Inside my necklace, Robert Heald Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2023
Great Hunger, Robert Heald Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2022
O, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth
2021
The softest place on earth, Robert Heald Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2020
The fairy and the woodcutter, Robert Heald Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
꿈 / ɯnʞʞ., Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2019
I love more than two loves, RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
EOmma, Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Group Exhibitions
2025
Visual Arts + Sound Art Class of 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2024
Untitled, Low Library, Columbia University, New York
Currents, SK Gallery, New York
Class of 2025 First Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Feminine Abstract, Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North
Aotearoa Contemporary, Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
2023
Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Folded Memory, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2021
The Inner Lives of Islands, Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Bedrock, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2019
PLAY_STATIONS NEXT TOP MODEL, play_station, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Softly Spoken: An exhibition of contemporary textiles, Hastings City Art Gallery
2018
AAAhui2018 @the Engine Room, The Engine Room, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Public Collections
Christchurch Art Gallery
Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa
Wellington City Council
Awards
2024
International Peace Scholarship
Shop Fellowship
2023
Fulbright Graduate Award
Creative New Zealand
Dean Carol Becker Fellowship
Visual Arts Fellowship
Creative New Zealand
Bibliography
Gallagher, Jasmine ‘Spring Break: Contemporary Art at Christchurch Art Gallery,’ Art New Zealand, Issue 189, Autumn 2024
Handcock, Robbie, The Inner Lives of Islands (exhibition text), Te Tuhi, May 2021
Hemus, Becky, '"Mapping objects within a space”: Bedrock at The Physics Room,' The Art Paper, 6 July, 2021
Lu, Rose, ‘Dreaming in and out of language,’ Enjoy Public Art Gallery, January 2020
Porter, Gwynneth, ‘Reality has an Ephemeral Quality,’ ArtNow, 27 March, 2024