juli baker and summer is an artist, writer and traveler. Once an aspiring fashion designer, she studied Fashion and Textiles in the Creative Decoration Department at Chulalongkorn University, but later discovered that painting– that is, being an artist– is her true calling in life.

juli baker and summer’s career as a professional artist commenced in 2015. Her work is inspired by David Hockney and Henri Matisse, two European artists with colorful oeuvres that privileged emotional expression over verisimilitude, the cardinal rule of juli baker and summer’s own art-making.

Her paintings are distinguished by color palettes as vibrant and bold as the summer sun, and young women with strange– almost abstract– bodies sprawled at ease and awash with the emotions discharged through each brushstroke. Each of juli baker and summer’s paintings are grounded in her lived experiences: personal memories, everyday conversations, globetrotting, favorite books, pop culture, society and politics.

In a way, her art-making is another form of journaling, on a larger canvas. Notably, juli baker and summer’s works bear extracts of her own handwriting, which calls attention to the other registers of her identity as a storyteller and diarist. juli baker and summer has collaborated with numerous leading brands, including Nike, Vogue Thailand, Lamy and Maison Kistune. Her works have appeared in a host of solo exhibitions, “I’ll Follow the Sun” at Virus Space & Cafe (2017), “Please, Make Yourself at Home” at The Jam Factory (2017), “Nowhere Woman” at VS Gallery (2021-2022), “Coming of Age” at Spiral Tokyo (2021), “She’s too much” at River City Bangkok and currently at Art Is Gallery Tokyo.