Jill Baker is an award-winning painter who has taught art on the university level. The artist attended the Academia di Belle Arti, later earning a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Pratt in NY. She belongs to several prestigious art organizations and has exhibited her oils in Europe, the U.S. and Orient.
“I was raised as the oldest child of a photographer who was also an atomic engineer who first worked on the atomic bomb. His family accompanied him everywhere, throughout all the states in the United States, and around the world, as we moved frequently. My travel experiences taught me the universality of experience and this is what I depict: the beauty that I see in this world. I try to show everyone the incredible depth of reality, with its humor and irony, the poignant and the complex in the world that I see, shown how I see it, through my eyes.” 
Jill Baker travels the world and has studied under the masters. She graduated with a B.A. from Baylor University, attended the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy and earned a M.F.A. from Pratt Institute. She also did graduate work at Florida State University, University of Southern California and Columbia University. She is a member and officer in art organizations, having been President of the 500-member Los Angeles Artists Equity Association, and has received awards, fellowships and grants. She has worked doing art with Institutional Investor, Golden Books, Vanderbilt University and taught art at colleges, including the University of Southern Indiana.
She has exhibited her photography, oil paintings and graphic art throughout the world, in venues such as the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea; Goethe Haus in New York City, the Parthenon in Nashville, the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy, and in the “American Artists” Exhibition in Paris at the Palais de Congres. She has shown her paintings and photographs in venues throughout the U.S., winning prizes in Los Angeles, New York, Tennessee, Kentucky and elsewhere.