Selected Solo·
Upcoming, TBA, la Maison des arts de Laval, Laval, QC
· Dec, Migration and Motherhood, MAI gallérie & Place de la création, a public space in Ville-Marie
· June, Don’t worry we won’t forget you, life performance with Azl collective, FORMA, London UK
· Dec, Performing Community Garden, Maison de la Culture Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal, QC
· Dec, Book Room, collective event at production space Concordia University, Montreal, QC
· Oct, Theme Contre la pauvreté, at La coffre, Longueil
· Sep, Community Garden, Maison de la Culture Rivière-des-Prairies, Montreal, QC
· May, Centrifugeuse, Langues pendues, Longueil
· July, The 8th wonder, the future, residency & exhibition, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, NYC, USA
· July, Recipes for living (Collective work), 3Ecologies foundation, St Anne Du Lac, QC
· Dec, Oiseaux traversant les frontiers, La salle de diffusion de Parc-Extension, Montreal
· June, Performing community garden, CAFKA – Contemporary art Biennale, Kitchener, ON
· Dec, Birds crossing borders, performative art workshop, Lethbridge University, Alberta
· Dec, Birds crossing borders, performance, Centre for Culture and Community, Lethbridge, Alberta
· Aug, Untitled, residency and presentation, Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), Manitoba
· Nov, 2017 au Janvier 2018: Centre Lethbridge, arrondissement St-Laurent, Stuart Hall, Montreal, QC
· Sep, Birds crossing borders1, installation, Montréal, arts interculturels (M.A.I), Montreal, QC
· July, In the presence of the absent, performance at Darling Foundation, Montreal, QC
· Nov, Behind Walls/Maps, (installation) Karash-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, ON
· Jan, When Spirits Awaken, (multimedia & performance), 101 Gallery, Ottawa, ON
· Sep, Sing your song map our dreams, interactive online project at LA Fabrique Culturelle, QC
· May, Don’t leave me.. I am still alive, (multimedia), OBORO, Montreal, QC
· Feb, Unravelling Empire (multimedia), ASpace gallery & FADO Performance, Toronto, ON
Selected group exhibitions:
· Racines croisées/ Intertwined Roots, Montréal, arts interculturels (M.A.I), Montreal, QC
· Oct, Rewilding, Rewilding prize, Nature National Museum, Ottawa, ON
· June, don’t worry i won’t forget you, video installation, FORMA, Lonodn, UK
· May, APOLIDIA : Performing Community Garden, Venezia, Italy
· April, Community Garden, live performance at Festival Art Souterrain, Montreal, QC
· May, Behind Walls-maps, installation, Cuisine Ta Ville, Place des Festivals, Montreal, QC
· August, TBD, Barachois In Situ, Barachois, QC
· May,'2+2=KRDSTN, Forum d'Hotel de Ville hall, Lausanne, Switzerland
· Oct, Community Garden, Musée à ciel ouvert, Drummondville, QC
· Sept, Behind Walls, Maison de la Culture, Longueil, QC
· Sept, Si le lieu-meurt, il peut naître , ViVa! Art Action, Montreal, QC
· March, Personal revolution, at Atassi Foundation, Alserkal, Dubai, UAE
· Sep, "home-less-ness", (installation), Istanbul International Triennial, Istanbul, Turkey
· Feb, Restrictions Of The Earth, Karşı Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey & Hinterland, Vienna, Austria
· Nov, I am alive, (animation), International Exile Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
· May, “My Little voice can’t lie”, DIVISION GALLERY, Montreal
· May, The State of Origion: Reel & Imagined, Maison de la culture Cote-Des-Neigs, Montreal
· Feb, I am alive, animation, Alwan gallery shortlisted for 3ed annual video competition, NYC, USA
· Nov, “Don’t leave me.. I am still alive”, 27Th Instant Video festival, Marseille, Fr
· June, Syrian Wedding, (screening), MS University, Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda & India International Art Fair (Delhi), India
· March, “My little voice Can’t lie”, (performance), Art Souterrain&Nuit Blanche, Montreal, QC
· Nov, Counter Memories, multimedia& life performance, Alwan gallery, NYC, USA (2 person show)
· July, 011+91, (video installation), Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM), ON
· May, Dislocations, (video installation), CONTACT Photo Festival, Toronto, ON
· Oct, SPLICE:“My little voice Can’t Lie”( performance), at OFTTA festival, Montréal, QC and Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
· June, All our relations: Quand vous réveillez les esprits (multimedia installation, performance), the 18th Biennale of, Sydney, Australia
Selected Bursaries and Awards:
· Canada Council for the arts (CAC), concept to realisation grant award
· David Suzuki Foundation Rewilding Arts Prize winner
· Miriam Aaron Roland Family Award, Concordia University
· Canada Council for the arts (CAC), concept to realisation grant award
· Faculty of Fine Arts fellowship, Concordia University
· Canada Council for the arts (CAC), research and creation grant award
· Canada Council for the arts travel grant award
· CALQ & Tele Quebec, project grant award
· OBORO Interval 2014 residency & production assistance at new media lab
· Special Mention for an Outstanding Artistic Production for Excellence in Oral History
· Canada Council for the arts, research-creation and travel grant award
Relevant Professional Activities:
· May, INKE Research Creation, Community Engagement conference, Acadia University in Wolfville, NS
· March, Lecture at Women studies class at York University, Toronto
· Art for Social Change Conference, Practices of the Right to Opacity – Recipes for Artfulife, online hosted by GALA an interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching and research.
· Oct, Community Garden, Alliances & Commonalities 2022, The Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
· Women Scholars' Speaker Series – Panel Honouring the late Dr. Gülden Özcan: Activist & Intellectual Legacies, University of Lethbridge, AB
· Jury member new media section, at Canada Council for the arts (CCA) and at Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
· CAFKA, virtual artist talk and screening
· Nov, art et femmes immigrantes, talk, UQAM University, Montreal, QC
· Oral history through visual art workshop, Lethbridge University, Alberta
· Panel discussion, ASpace gallery, Toronto
· Artist talk at 101 Gallery, Ottawa.
· Panel discussion, IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference, Montreal, QC
· Artist presentation, UQAM University and at MFA Open media, Concordia
· Meet the Artist, at the Middle Eastern Club& Monthly NYC-DR Roundtable Breakfast, New York
· Artist talk, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York
· Artists’ Talks, Counter Memories: The Challenge of Restorative Justice Practices, CUNY Dispute Resolution Center John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
· Teaching assistance, textile art, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
· Open Media Artist Talk, Concordia University, Montreal
· Coffin/Nest, workshop/recycled clothes at Museum Day, Stewart Hall Art Gallery Point Claire, QC
Collections & Commissions:
· Portrait, drawing with human hair, private collection, Ottawa & Toronto
· Performing Community Garden, Ville de Drummondville, public work
· Blue Beard Today’s Tale, Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne, Montreal
· Tracing Traces, 2011, video, The City collection, Dyarbakir, Turkey
· Home songs, 2011, video, private collection, Toronto
· Walls talks 2, drawing on handmade paper, 2012, private collection, Montreal
Walls talks 1, painting, 2008, private collection, Vancouver
· Sing our dreams, online project LA Fabrique Culturelle, CALQ & Tele Quebec, Montreal, QC
·visual creation and video work, 2015, for, traversée, theater project with Milena Buziak.
Education:
09/2017-12/2023
PhD Humanity and interdisciplinary studies, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
09/2009-10/2012
Master of Fine Arts in Open media, Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Selected Publications, Printed Reviews, Articles and Interviews:
· Le Musée de la nature se laisse «réensauvager»
Par Yves Bergeras, Le Droit https://www.ledroit.com/arts/arts-visuels/2024/10/11/le-musee-de-la-nature-se-laisse-reensauvager-DPVDIBYRHRE6FELRSNZ5PDGAOI/
· A conversation with Reham Kannout Alrefaie. https://www.atassifoundation.com/hiwar/khadija-baker
· The world and the University,
· Femme art review, written by Nadia Kurd, link:
https://femmeartreview.com/2020/09/16/profiles-on-practice-khadija-baker/
· Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki, and Franca Iacovetta, eds., Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2018).
· Behind Walls-maps, Exhibition Catalogue, City of Ottawa, print
· Imagining borders, Khadija Baker Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies Vol. 12, No. 1
· TV Rogers, when spirits awaken, at 101 Gallery, Ottawa
· LA Provance, don’t leave me I am alive France, print.
· Matv, colouer d’ici, with Emilie Gauthier, QC
· Oral History Forum 34 (2014), Special Issue on Human Rights and Oral History, ISSN 1923-0567
· OldWestbury TV, local, OWTV Reporter, Rebecca Alexandre, New York TV
· Counter Memories, Fulbright, Brochure 1-4
· Portrait, Aljazeera TV, interview by Nadia Zouaoui 2013
· Counter Memories: The Challenge of Restorative Justice Practices, Caroline Kunzle, Fullbright blog
· Eassy by Stuart Killer, 011+92, exhibition Catalogue, print
· All our relations, 18th biennale of Sydney, 121,236 and Moira Roths gleanings
· Unravelling Empire, essay by Rachel Gorman, A Space
Professional membership:
· RAVV, The professional association of artists Quebec.
· DAM - diversité ethnoculturelle de Montréal
· La Central-artist run centre
· Articule-artist run centre
· ELAN-The English-Language Arts Network