Together, Kenny 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))

PUBLIC ART

2023

  • The First Treaty was Between the Earth and the Sky, collaborative Design with Rebecca Baird & Amy Thompson, Centennial College, Scarborough, ON

2022

  • North Star, collaborative Design with Rebecca Baird and Mike Mansor, Woodbine Casino Expansion Project, Toronto, ON

2020

  • All My Relations, collaborative Design with Rebecca Baird, CAMH, Toronto, ON

AWARDS

  • Hnatyshyn Foundation Indigenous Award, Visual Art and Fine Craft, Winnipeg, SK

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bronson, AA, Frédéric Bonnet, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal. General Idea: A Retrospective 1969–1994 Hardcover. Zürich: JRP|Ringier. 2011

Garnet, Eldon. Impulse Achaeology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005

Tétrault, Pierre Léon, Dana Alan Williams, Guy Sioui Durand, Alfred Young Man, et al. New Territories: 350/500 Years After: An Exhibition of Contemporary Aboriginal Art of Canada. Prefaces by Robert Houle, Tom Hill. Montréal, Québec: Ateliers Vi- sion Planétaire, 1992

Goode, Eric, Jennifer Goode. Area: 1983–1987. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1 edition (November 12, 2013)

“Dark Visions: Kenny Baird Conjures World of Decay.” Aboriginal Voices 4, No. 2 (Apr/May/Jun 1997): 20–21