Together, he and his sister Rebecca, share a concern for reclaiming Aboriginal North American history, and an understated critique of colonialism, evinced in large-scale installations which exploit Baird's skill in set design. Baird has received several Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council awards, a residency scholarship to the Banff Centre for the Arts curated by Sarah Diamond, in addition to a Juno award and nominations for several MuchMusic and MTV art direction awards.
In September 2004, exhibited a new large scale work, Murder of Crows for the Tecumseh Arts Festival month long visual art exhibition, Witness at Fort York in Toronto.
EXHIBITIONS
2015
- Tributaries: midway ‘twixt earth and heaven, The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo
2006
- Basic Instinct, Spin Gallery, Toronto
- SNAP, A Photographic Fundraiser for the AIDS Committee of Toronto, Spin Gallery
- Selected Works, Oh My Gallery, Toronto
2005
- Sex Show, Spin Gallery
2004
- Witness, Tecumseh Arts Festival, Fort York, Toronto
2000
- Vitrine, Lobby of The Standard Hotel, West Hollywood, California
1999
- The New Republics, Trafalgar Art Gallery, London, England (Also toured Australia, South Africa and Canada)
1996
- Altered States: Rituals of Exchange, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
1993
- The Memorial Project, A Space Gallery, Toronto
1992 - New Territories- 350/500 Years After, Les Maison de la Cultures, Montréal
- INDIGENA, Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
- Canada’s First People: A Celebration of Contemporary Native Visual Arts, Syracude Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Québec (also in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Vancouver and Tokyo, Japan)
1991
- First Nations Art ’91, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford Thirst (with Rebecca Baird), Garnet Press, Toronto
Mixed, Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury (with Rebecca Baird)
1990
- First Nations Art ’90, Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford
1989
- Mixed, Garnet Press, Toronto (with Rebecca Baird)
1988
- Don Quixote, Garnet Press, Toronto ((with Rebecca Baird))