daniel.g.baird (at) gmail.com

Time imprints the world around us. Whether through the trace of a fingers gesture on a technological surface or the long displacement of organic matter in sedimentation, marks are memories and announce both an enigmatic presence and timeless absence. I am interested in how the present reckons with the deep past. My process-focused conceptual practice locates itself within collisions of cultural and geological histories, where mythologies of the intimate and objective merge.


Daniel G. Baird (b. 1984, Edison NJ) is an artist living and working in Chicago, IL. Baird earned his Master of Fine Art from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2011 and holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute (2007). Selected solo exhibitions include: murmur (2019), PATRON, Chicago IL; murmurings (2019) at Salón ACME, Mexico City,MX; of the water (2018), GRIMM, New York, NY; Field Station: Daniel G. Baird (2017),Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, MI; Thereof (2017), Granite City Arts and Design District, St. Louis, MO; When (2016), PATRON, Chicago, IL; and Has the World Already Been Made? (2011), Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, including The Last of Animal Builders (2023), Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, IL; and Heft (2022), PATRON, Chicago,IL; Unthought Environments (2018), the Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL and the Gothenburg International Biennial of Art (2017), Gothenburg, SE, among others. Recently, Baird received the Artist Fellowship Award: Illinois State Arts Council Agency and was an Artist in Residence at both the Kohler Arts and Industry Program and Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Currently, Baird teaches in the Department of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recent Press: 
Artforum
Brooklyn Rail
Sixty Inches from Center


Full CV can be found here.