Marty Baird
Marty Baird received her B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, and her M.F.A. in Painting from Catholic University in Washington DC. She has been an Artist-In-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and grants from NC Arts Council, United Arts, and the City of Raleigh Arts Commission. She had a solo exhibition at Paço Imperial Center for Contemporary Art in Rio de Janeiro, and her paintings and works on paper have been in group exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, at SECCA, at Kunstforum Munchen in Munich, and at LongView Gallery. She had a numerous solo shows at Raleigh Contemporary Gallery, and with Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston. In 2009 Baird was a collaborator on the Bain Project. Her work is in private collections on three continents and in public and corporate collections in the U.S. She has taught art and design classes at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, DC, at NCSU, Meredith, and Peace College in North Carolina. Her work is represented by The Mahler Gallery, Raleigh, NC and Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX.