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. Baird works out of her studio in Killingworth, CT, and has created installations in public parks, galleries, and museums throughout New England including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockland, ME and the MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) in Boston, MA. She has exhibited recently at the Menino Arts Center in Boston, ArtPort Kingston in Kingston, NY, and ART06870 in Greenwich, CT. 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 Massachusetts Port Authority and the New York Film Festival.