Hayley Millar Baker is a First Nations woman and research-based artist who uses photography and film to abstract and interrogate the way memories are made through acts of remembering and misremembering. She reflects upon the potential for personal recollections and historical accounts to become improvised and embellished. Millar Baker explores human experiences through a lens that is non-exclusive and non-linear. Her perspective is connected within memory and contemporary storytelling.
Millar Baker holds a Master of Fine Arts at RMIT (2017) and has been a finalist in National and International exhibitions including Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2021), Ramsay Art Prize (2021, 2019); the John Fries Award(2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art Primavera (2018); The Josephine Ulrick and Win Shubert Photography Award (2018). She has won the John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for the National Photography Prize (2020), the Darebin Art Prize (2019), and the Special Commendation Award in The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize (2017).
Her work has been exhibited nationally including an early career-survey There we were all in one place at UTS Gallery (2021), The 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial at The National Gallery of Australia (2021), PHOTO2021: International Festival of Photography (2021), and the Ballarat International Foto Biennale(2017).
Millar Baker’s work is held in significant collections across Australia: Australian War Memorial, Canberra; Melbourne Museum, Melbourne; Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne; Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne; Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), Albury; State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; University of Technology Sydney, Sydney; University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney; Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool; Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), Shepparton; Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne; Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham; City of Melbourne, Melbourne.
Hayley Millar-Baker is represented by Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.