Bio

As an artist, Freedom Baird creates spaces in which visitors can explore, question, reflect, and act as a way to expand awareness and cultivate agency. Baird works in multiple disciplines, including sculpture, installation, and performance, drawing from her background in the visual, performing, and media arts. Originally from New York City, she received master’s degrees from M.I.T. and from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Baird is a member of the inclusive FeministFuturist artists collective whose recent exhibitions include M/Othering Resistance at the Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA. Working out of her studio in Cambridge, MA, Baird has created installations in public parks throughout Greater Boston, and at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, ME, and the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has exhibited recently at the Menino Arts Center in Boston, The Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, MA, and ArtPort Kingston in Kingston, NY. Baird is the author of Shore Line Recall: Boston Harbor Islands, about her artist residency there. Her work is included in the Getty Museum’s 2020 book Off the Walls: Inspired Re-Creations of Iconic Artworks. Baird has received awards, grants and commissions including from the New York Film Festival and the MassArt Art Museum (MAAM).