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R.C. Baker is a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellow whose work has been exhibited at Jennifer Baahng Gallery, the Drawing Center, White Columns, the Center for Book Arts, and other venues in New York City, as well as internationally. Baker is an adjunct professor at New York University in the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program, and is the New York News and Culture Editor for the Village Voice. He has written hundreds of reviews and numerous features and cover stories on art, popular culture, and politics, and spoken on these topics in New York City and internationally, including a recent keynote speech on Kazimir Malevich at NYC’s Ukrainian Museum, an overview of the alternative press at the Vienna Contemporary art fair, and “Cold War Gray,” at Bulgaria's National Gallery of Art, in Sofia. His essays have appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times and in Performing Arts Journal, exhibition catalogues, and other publications, and he is the recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation grant for Short-Form Writing. He lives and works in the Bronx, New York.