Cindy Baker
Leduc-born interdisciplinary and performance artist Cindy Baker embraces ethical community engagement and critical social inquiry, employing a range of modes from latch-hooking to digital fabrication. Her artistic work arises from her research in fat activism, gender culture, and queer theory, and seeks to provoke and engage its audiences into consideration of their own logical and illogical responses, through her artworks such as the agit-prop series Door Dose [sic] Not Lock.
After earning her BFA with Distinction in Painting, Printmaking, Industrial Design, and Visual Communication Design from the University of Alberta (1997), Baker took a seminar at the Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery (2003 – 2004), and earned her MFA at the University of Lethbridge (2014).
As an active supporter of the arts community, Baker has served numerous organisations, including as a board member of the gay and lesbian festival Metamorphosis, a Prairie Celebration (during its 2000 – 2004 resurgence) and Paved Art + New Media non-profit community arts organisation (2002 - ), both in Saskatoon. She was the founding director and president of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference (2004 – 2006) in Ottawa, which currently represents more than 170 artist-run centres and collectives across Canada.
Baker has undertaken several solo exhibitions, including Feminine Wiles at Edmonton’s Manifesto Culture (1998), No Word of a Lie at Brandon’s Gallery of Southwest Manitoba (2001), Gimmick at Moncton’s Galerie Sans Nom (2004), Lipstick and Bullets at the University of Alberta (2014), and All Things to All Men (and Women) at dc3 Art Projects in Edmonton (2016). She’s also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Dirt Sweet at the Edmonton Art Gallery (1998), Signature Appearances at Calgary’s New Gallery (2004), Artists by Artists at Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery (2008), and Cabinet of Queeriosities at CASA in Lethbridge (2015). She has staged dozens of performances and “interventions” such as Heart to Heart at Kington’s Modern Fuel (2003), The Cultural Worker at Vancouver’s Western Front (2004), and at Saskatoon’s national toll-free gallery Face Time (2007).
Several collections house her work, including those of the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works in Lethbridge.
After earning her BFA with Distinction in Painting, Printmaking, Industrial Design, and Visual Communication Design from the University of Alberta (1997), Baker took a seminar at the Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery (2003 – 2004), and earned her MFA at the University of Lethbridge (2014).
As an active supporter of the arts community, Baker has served numerous organisations, including as a board member of the gay and lesbian festival Metamorphosis, a Prairie Celebration (during its 2000 – 2004 resurgence) and Paved Art + New Media non-profit community arts organisation (2002 - ), both in Saskatoon. She was the founding director and president of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference (2004 – 2006) in Ottawa, which currently represents more than 170 artist-run centres and collectives across Canada.
Baker has undertaken several solo exhibitions, including Feminine Wiles at Edmonton’s Manifesto Culture (1998), No Word of a Lie at Brandon’s Gallery of Southwest Manitoba (2001), Gimmick at Moncton’s Galerie Sans Nom (2004), Lipstick and Bullets at the University of Alberta (2014), and All Things to All Men (and Women) at dc3 Art Projects in Edmonton (2016). She’s also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Dirt Sweet at the Edmonton Art Gallery (1998), Signature Appearances at Calgary’s New Gallery (2004), Artists by Artists at Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery (2008), and Cabinet of Queeriosities at CASA in Lethbridge (2015). She has staged dozens of performances and “interventions” such as Heart to Heart at Kington’s Modern Fuel (2003), The Cultural Worker at Vancouver’s Western Front (2004), and at Saskatoon’s national toll-free gallery Face Time (2007).
Several collections house her work, including those of the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works in Lethbridge.