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Chenoa Baker

Chenoa Baker

Chenoa Baker is an executive, community builder, and arts leader whose work bridges the non-profit, public, and private sectors and academia. She brings rigor and cultural richness to programming, editorial content, and exhibitions. Baker has worked on major exhibitions, including Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Peabody Essex Museum; Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Simone Leigh at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Her writing appears in Hyperallergic, The Observer, The Brooklyn Rail, Material Intelligence, other outlets, and several print catalogues. As the new Executive Director and Editor of Studio Potter, Baker continues to build connections across the field while advancing her curatorial and editorial practice. Her current projects include co-curating a temporary public art project in Calgary (2028) and Ifé Franklin: Orun/Portal at the Fuller Craft Museum (March 6, 2027). Her practice has garnered Art Critics International, WBUR, and Rabkin Foundation awards.

A performer in a blue tulle costume looking upward with one hand on their forehead.

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Asks What It Means to Sustain an Artistic Life

By Chenoa Baker
A photograph of a person wearing an intricate gold and silver facial adornment with pearls, holding the adornment near their chest.

What the Reykjavík Arts Festival Can Tell Us About the Future of the Interdisciplinary Biennial

By Chenoa Baker
An art-filled kitchenette shows framed works, small paintings, yellow ceramic objects, plants, cups and a yellow hand sculpture arranged around a marble counter and open shelf.

In Philadelphia, a New Art Fair Removes Scale From the Equation

By Chenoa Baker
A microphone stands in front of a purple screen projecting the word “ARTPHILLY” in large green letters.

“What Now: 2026” Puts Art at the Center of the Nation’s 250th Anniversary Celebrations

By Chenoa Baker
A group of performers in matching outfits work together around sculptural materials in a pink-lit installation space.

La Biennale de Québec: What Shifts When Ice Splits

By Chenoa Baker
An art fair scene shows visitors walking and chatting among hanging installations made of layered cutouts, surrounded by paintings and textile works on the walls.

What the Art World Can Learn from the Intersectionality and Multiculturalism of Art Toronto

By Chenoa Baker
A performer covered in clay bends forward with sculpted clay forms attached to their back, evoking themes of transformation, burden, and creation.

‘Body Vessel Clay’ Offers a Material Portal to the Ancestral Plane

By Chenoa Baker
An older Black man in a shimmering red and gold robe and head covering plays the piano onstage, turning to look at the camera through red-orange smoke and concert lighting.

BlackStar Film Festival’s 2025 Selections Unpack the Power and Pretense of Cinema as a Liberatory Tool

By Chenoa Baker
A woman in a black strapless top with a long braid stands in front of a colorful painting depicting three contemplative women in a lush, surreal interior scene with blue and orange tones.

Beatriz Amelia Whitehill, Papier-Mâché and the Fluid Cartographies of Borikén

By Chenoa Baker
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