Christine Baeumler
Christine Baeumler grew up in Buffalo, New York. She received her BA from Yale University, and her M.F.A. from Indiana University in Bloomington. Christine is an assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Baeumler’s travels to the World Heritage sites such as the Northern Australian Rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos have inspired artwork which explores the connections between ecology and evolution. Baeumler’s concern lies not only with the diminishment of ecosystems and species, but the very extinction of human experience of these environments. She has been also involved locally with ecological remediation efforts in Swede Hollow Park and the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in St. Paul.
She has exhibited her work in shows nationally, including in “Eye Witness,” 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City; “ Zoologia Fantastica” at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and has also been included in exhibitions at Synchronicity Space and Bowery Gallery in New York City, as well as at Richard Green Gallery, The Mission Cultural Center and Spectrum Gallery, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in California. She has recently exhibited work in Germany and Korea in 2007.
In addition, Baeumler’s work is also held in the collections of Ecolab, Ceridian Corporation, Mayo Clinic and the Minnesota University Foundation. The artist has been involved in numerous environmental art projects and has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Charles and Anne Morrow Lindberg Foundation, and the Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment. Her collaborative public art commissions include those from the Seattle Arts Commission and the Henry Lay Sculpture Park, Missouri.
She is an assistant professor of art at the University of Minnesota.