Education
Yale University, M.F.A., Painting/ Printmaking 2012
Cooper Union, B.F.A., 2009
Awards
Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC) Community Grant (2021)
Jack Stewart Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting (Cooper Union, 2009)
Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award for outstanding achievement in drawing or painting from nature (Yale University, 2012)
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Rush Baker IV, Keijsers Koning, Dallas, TX
2022
Rush Baker IV: American Sunset, HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2019
Post-World, HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2015
Under Pressure, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
2014
Immutable Fires, Scaramouche, New York, NY
2009
Armchair Revolutionary, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Open on K, HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Stretched, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
10 x 10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Hyattsville, MD
2020
Group Show: Rushern Baker IV, Michael Ray Charles, David Leggett and Kathia St. Hilaire, Zidoun Bossuyt, Luxembourg
2019
Painting is its Own Country, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
Summer Show, HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2018
MORE or LESS, HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2017
Painting Not Painting, sindikit, Baltimore, MD
A Fast Moving Sky, The Third Line Gallery Dubai, Dubai, U.A.E.
The Future is Abstract, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
2015
4 x 4: Painting, Limited Ink Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Under Pressure, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Solo Show)
2014
Immutable Fires, Scaramouche, New York, NY (Solo Show)
Do the Yale Thing, curated by Dexter Wimberly, N’Namdi Center, Detroit, MI (Group Show)
2013
The Straight, curated by Gail Vollrath and Zofie Lang, Catalyst Projects Washington, D.C. (Group Show)
Pattern Recognition, curated by Dexter Wimberly, MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts), Brooklyn, NY (Group Show)
We Have Never Been Modern, New Work by Sam Vernon and Rushern Baker IV, Reginald Ingraham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Momentum, curated by Sam Vernon, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD (Group Show)
Eye Off the Flag, curated by Mark Thomas Gibson, Koki Arts and Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan (Group Show)
The Virgins 5: Its a small, small world, curated by Tommy Coleman and Jayson Scott Musson, Family Business, New York, NY (Group Show)
Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (Group Show)
Scatology-eschatology Show,Yale University, New Haven, CT (Group Show)
Thesis Exhibition,Yale University, New Haven, CT (Group Show)
2011
Second Year Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Group Show)
2010
CAA Show, Hunter College, New York, NY
(Group Show)
First Year Show, Yale University, New Haven, CT (Group Show)
Rites of Passage, curated by Thomas Micchelli, 41 Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (Group Show)
2009
No Consequences, L’Enfant Moderne, Washington D.C.
Armchair Revolutionary, Cooper Union, New York, NY (Solo Thesis Show)