Hayley Millar Baker (b. 1990, Melbourne) is a Gunditjmara, Djab Wurrung, Nira Balluk Taungurung and Anglo-Indian artist working across photographic collage, film, moving image and installation. Grounded in storytelling, her practice tells, reauthors, and disrupts narratives across history, lived experience and the spiritual realm. Her work moves between the personal to broader histories of colonialism, survival and resistance.

Grounded in Indigenous understandings of relationality, Millar Baker’s work explores the relationships between people, land, time, spirituality, life and death. Drawing on historical records, personal and embodied experience, performance and cinematic language, she creates works in which different histories, temporalities and realities coexist.

Through concealment, obfuscation and revelation, Millar Baker considers what exists beyond visibility and who determines what can be seen, known and believed. Her work treats the image not as a neutral form of representation, but as an active encounter through which histories continue, ancestral presences endure, and other realities become possible. Her broader practice positions the image as a catalyst for deep inner reckoning and a soul journey, where viewing shifts from passive observation to an immersive, phenomenological confrontation with the structures of looking, judgment, and power. By purposefully withholding immediate legibility, Millar Baker forces audiences to confront the limits of their own gaze.

Since her inclusion in Primavera: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2018, Millar Baker's work has been presented in major exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and e-flux, New York.

Recent presentations include the 2026 Biennale de Lyon, MACLyon; Dark Mofo, Tasmania; La Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (BACA), Montréal; and No Spectacular Soul, a major institutional solo exhibition at Artspace, Sydney. In 2026, she received the Creative Australia First Nations Arts and Culture Award for Youth Achievement in the Arts, and in 2025 was shortlisted for the Australian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale with curator Erin Vink.

Her work is held in major public collections throughout Australia and internationally, including the National Gallery of Victoria, National Portrait Gallery, Australian War Memorial, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Monash University Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and MoCA Cultural Association, Venice.