Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally exhibiting artist whose surreal oil paintings are rich with allegorical meta-narratives inspired by literature and art history.(b. 1974, Louisiana) Baade received her MFA from University of Delaware in 2003 and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997, during which she studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy in 1995-96. Her awards include the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist in Painting (2005–2006) and the Florida State Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship (2009–2010). She was nominated for the United States Art Award (2007) and for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2012). Over the past 20 years, she has shown in over 200 exhibitions and 20 solo exhibitions. Her work has been included in exhibits at the the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Museum of Art, the Pensacola Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, the Delaware Contemporary, the Harwood Museum in Taos, the Warsaw Cultural Center, the Instituto de America de Santa Fe in Granada, Spain; and the Ningbo Art Museum in China. Raised on the front range in Colorado, she lives and works in Northern Florida, where she is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University.