Ever Baldwin American, b. 1978

Biography
Ever Baldwin, Muffy, 2023, Oil on canvas in charred wood frame, 38 x 40 x 4 inches_96.5 x 101.6 x 10.2 cm, Courtesy to the artist and Marinaro
Ever Baldwin, Muffy, 2023, Oil on canvas in charred wood frame, 38 x 40 x 4 inches_96.5 x 101.6 x 10.2 cm, Courtesy to the artist and Marinaro
Ever Baldwin (b. 1978, Brookline, MA. Lives and works in Catskill, NY) creates richly material paintings that explore the oscillation between observation and sensation. Baldwin’s thickly worked oil paintings, often fused to torched wooden frames, flicker between abstraction and representation, revealing and obscuring faces, bodies, and architectural forms. Empowered by marble dust and other thickening agents, each mark carries a heightened physical and emotional weight, resulting in paintings that feel excavated as much as painted. Baldwin's practice embraces transformation and ambiguity, using material processes to evoke memory, perception, and the instability of images.
 
Select solo exhibitions include Spotlight: Ever Baldwin at Vielmetter (2026); Stranger in the Echoes at Marinaro (2024); Down the Line at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (2023); and Quiet Yes at Marinaro, New York (2022). Baldwin has also been included in group exhibitions at Modern Art, London (2023); Marinaro, New York (2023, 2025); Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2023); White Columns, New York (2024); and The University of Texas at Dallas (2025). Baldwin’s work is held in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, and the Zimmerli Art Museum.
 

EDUCATION

2005 MFA in Studio Art, School of The Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA 

2000 BFA in painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

 

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2026 Tuning Ground, Cob Gallery, London

2026 Spotlight: Ever Baldwin, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA

2024 Stranger in the Echoes, Marinaro, New York, NY

2023 Down the Line, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

2022 Ever Baldwin and Wayne Fischer, LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, FR
Quiet Yes, Marinaro, New York, NY 

PLENTY, Five Car Garage/Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA 

2021 Between Observation and Sensation, JAG Projects at Hudson House Reserve, Hudson, NY

2018 An Animal Unto Itself: (Ever) Baldwin & Anna Ortiz, curated by Tom Marquet, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Labor Day, Curt’s Door Gallery, Chicago IL

2007 A Bad Bad Xmas For Cursed Earth! (Ever Baldwin and Royal Robertson), Sunday Gallery, New York, NY

Don’t Let Nobody Make You Mad, Sunday Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Two person exhibition, Mythmaking (Ever Baldwin and Ann Young), Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 UNREAL, Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL

No Point in Making Myself Comfortable, Springs Projects, New York, NY 

2025 The Horror II, The University of Texas, Dallas

Summer Spell, Marinaro, New York, NY 

The River That Flows Both Ways, RUTHANN, Catskill, NY 

Signal Intelligence, eyes never sleep, New York, NY 

The Middle Ages, Roundabouts Now, Kingston, NY 

Bride of the Far Side, Post Times, New York, NY

2024 Pluperfect: an action of continued relevance, 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, NY

Secular Gothic, eyes never sleep, New York, NY

The Return of Histoire Naturelle, Chex Max et Dorothea, Los Angeles, CA

Looking Back/The 14th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY

2023 The Triumph of Death, Marinaro, New York, NY

Perpetual Portrait, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA

The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London, UK
2022 Jung Lovers, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY

JAG projects at Foreland, Catskill, NY

Recipes for Romance, curated by Nick Payne, Hudson House, NY 

2021 Forge Collection public exhibition, Taghkanic, NY
Reservoir, curated by Elisa Soliven, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY

Group exhibition, JAG projects at Hudson House, Hudson, NY

Staff Show, Art Omi, Ghent, NY

2020 Holiday Show, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY

Eddysroom at Left Field, curated by Austin Eddy, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA

Infinite Uncertainties, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY

2019 Limbic Songs, Curated by Cotter Luppi, Real Eyes Gallery, North Adams, MA

The Endless Body, curated by Julia Klein, TSA Chicago, IL

2018 New School, Greene County Council on The Arts, Catskill, NY

Art To Go Benefit, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY

2017 Summer Exhibition, Curated by Sarah Butler, D.R. Evarts Library, Athens, NY

Act 1, September Gallery, Hudson, NY

Escape Portal, Community Room, Cairo, NY

2016 Group Exhibition at Eddy’s Room, Brooklyn, NY

Conceptualize/Realize, Marwen Foundation, Chicago, IL

Buy What You Love Benefit Auction, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY

2015 Buy What You Love Benefit Auction, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY

Person, Place or Thing: Works on Paper by 51 Artists, 68 Projects, Berlin, DE

Marwen Foundation Art Fair, Chicago, IL

2014 Buy What You Love Benefit Auction, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY

InsideOut, Atlantic Center for The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2013 Marwen Foundation Art Fair, Chicago, IL

ACRE’s Art Expo Satellite Exhibition, Susanin’s Auction House, Chicago, IL

2012 Movements and Transformations, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL

Quiet Echo on Loud Wind, With Laura Hart Newlon, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL

MDW Art Fair, ACRE Booth, Chicago, IL

2011 Hot China, Estrella Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM

Wish You Were Here, Niche Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM

Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

Restore Defaults, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2010 Black Thursday Halloween City Black Friday Fireworks Stand, Troutman Studios,  Brooklyn, NY

The Romance Show, Curated by Sasha Panyuta, New York, NY

2009 What It Is! In collaboration with Matthew Ward, Repetti Gallery, Queens, NY

Good Vibrations, curated by Jasmin Tsou at Carol Bove’s studio, New York, NY

Quizotic, Troutman Studios, Brooklyn, NY

2008 Studio Artists Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

Visiting Artist/Live sculpting event, Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON, CA 

2007 Honey Can We Take the Neighbors? Aqua Art Fair, Sunday Booth, Miami, FL

2005 Conversational Lag, Freight and Volume, New York, NY

Chuck has a fat fucking ass (MFA Thesis Exhibition), Tufts University, Medford, MA 

 

COLLECTIONS

ICA Miami, Miami, FL

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

 

RESIDENCIES, AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship: Painting

2017 Publication: Bites, an artist board book by (Ever) Baldwin, Soberscove Press, Chicago, IL 

2014 DCASE Individual Artist Program grant recipient, Chicago, IL Atlantic Center for The Arts 

Residency with Artist Dana Schutz, New Smyrna Beach, FL 

2013 Ragdale Artist Residency, Lake Forest, IL 

2012 ACRE Artist Residency, Steuben, WI 

2011 Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY 

2008 Museum of Arts and Design, Artist in Residence, New York, NY