Laura Baird SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2003         Laura Baird and Eric Cameron, Exposed/Concealed, Contemporary Art Gallery,                 LIVE Biennial of Performance Art, Vancouver 1997         Waco Bridge, FotoBase Gallery, Vancouver 1994         Details: Jonestown Carpet, Stride Gallery, Calgary 1994         Jonestown Carpet, Rosemont Gallery, Regina 1993         Jonestown Carpet and Details, La Centrale, Montreal 1991         Jonestown Carpet, Josh Baer Gallery, New York City 1991         Jonestown Carpet, grunt gallery, Vancouver 1988         Jonestown Carpet -- Jonestown Dead, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 1980         Jonestown Carpet, Work in Progress, Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax 1978         Laconic Correspondence, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 1974         Gray, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1998         Draw Stranger, Draaaw, Plug-in Gallery, Winnipeg 1994         64-94: Contemporary Decades, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver 1994         Textiles, that is to say… Or Gallery, Vancouver 1994         Textiles, that is to say… Museum for Textiles, Toronto 1993         Subversive Crafts, List Visual Arts center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 1992         Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York City 1991         Burning in Hell, Franklin Furnace, New York City 1981         Group Show, Clapp House Gallery, Portland ME. 1981         Group Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax 1981         Group Show, Emergency Measures Space, Halifax 1980         Group Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax 1979         Group Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax 1978         Group Show, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver 1978         Graduate Show, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver 1975         Group Show, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver RECENT VIDEO SCREENINGS 2003         Visiting Artist Program, Nickel Arts Museum, University of Calgary 2003         Visiting Artist program, Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre,                 Alberta College of Art and Design 1999         Fragile Electrons: Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art, Mendel Art Gallery,                 Saskatoon 1998-99    Fragile Electrons: Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia 2000         Fragile Electrons: Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art, National Gallery of                 Canada 1998         Gods, Guns and the Weather Channel, Pleasure Dome/Cinecycle, Toronto 1997         Apocalypso, Banff Centre for the Arts RECENT OPEN STUDIO PROJECTS 2001         Cats Inside the Lee Building, Lee Building, Vancouver 2001         Sanibel 9/11, The Edge, Vancouver LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS 2002         Process Panel, LIVE Biennial of Performance Art, grunt gallery, Vancouver 2003         Visiting Artist Lecture, Alberta College of Art and Design 2003         Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Calgary 1998         Exhibiting Artist's Talk, Cinecycle/PleasureDome, Toronto 1997         Jonestown Tapes Talk, Apocalypso, Banff Centre for the Arts 1994         Exhibiting Artist's Talk, Stride Gallery, Calgary 1994         Exhibiting Artist's Talk, Museum for Textiles, Toronto 1993         Exhibiting Artist's Talk, Rosemont Gallery, Regina 1993         Exhibiting Artist's Talk, La Centrale, Montreal 1993         Visiting Artist's Talk, University of Calgary 1991         Exhibiting Artist's talk, grunt gallery, Vancouver 1991         Visiting Artist Lecture, Emily Carr College of Art and Design 1988         Visiting Artist Lecture, Emily Carr College of Art and Design 1988         Exhibiting Artist's Talk, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver RESIDENCIES 1998         Artist in Residence, Charles Street Video 1997         Artist in Residence, Apocalypso, The Banff Centre for the Arts AWARDS AND GRANTS 1997         Travel Grant, The Canada Council for the Arts 1997         Project Assistance Grant, British Columbia Arts Council 1994         Travel Grant, The Canada Council for the Arts 1994         Artist’s Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts 1993         Arts Grant B, The Canada Council for the Arts 1991         Project Grant, The Canada Council for the Arts 1979         Arts Grant B, the Canada Council for the Arts 1979         British Columbia Cultural Fund Award 1978         British Columbia Cultural Fund Award 1977         Helen Pitt Scholarship 1976         Helen Pitt Scholarship COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Canada Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Private collections CATALOGS Armstrong, John and Quinton, Sarah. 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