Carrie Ann Baade

www.carrieannbaade.com

Carrie Ann Baade is a painter, storyteller, and professor whose work brings historical fragments into dialogue with contemporary questions of identity, inheritance, memory, and transformation. Drawing from Renaissance and Baroque painting, mythology, archival research, and family history, she creates intricately constructed works that combine collage with historically grounded processes including egg tempera, oil painting, gilding, and layered painting techniques. Her recent Birthplace series uses speculative portraiture to reimagine the lives of women in her family whose histories intersect with colonial Louisiana.

At Florida State University, Baade is Professor of Painting in the Department of Art, where she teaches painting and drawing and mentors undergraduate and graduate artists. Her teaching integrates historical materials and techniques with contemporary and digital approaches, encouraging students to develop technically rigorous practices grounded in research, experimentation, and personal inquiry. She received FSU’s Honors Thesis Mentor Award in 2025 and was the keynote speaker at the 2025 Florida Art Education Association Conference.

Baade’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, art fairs, and cultural institutions across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Australia, China, and Indonesia. Recent projects include the solo exhibition Birthplace at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, Mirror Worlds at the Museum of Art – DeLand, and exhibitions at the Grand Palais in Paris and the Leonora Carrington Museum in Xilitla, Mexico. Her monograph, Scissors & Tears, was published by La Luz de Jesus Press in 2022.

Her honors include the Halo Fellowship Award, a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, and significant research support from Florida State University’s Council on Research & Creativity. Her work has been featured in publications including Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, and American Art Collector.