Cindy Baker

Based out of Lethbridge and Edmonton, Cindy Baker’s work is informed by a fierce commitment to ethical community engagement and critical social inquiry, drawing from queer, gender, race, disability, fat, and art theories. Baker’s interdisciplinary research-based practice moves fluently between the arts, humanities, and social sciences; she works with diverse materials and techniques from the low-craft to digital fabrication and performance, emphasizing the theoretical, conceptual and ephemeral aspects of her work. Baker’s practice draws from two decades of experience working and participating in art, queer, and fat communities; she has worked in non-profits throughout Western Canada. Currently, she is a sessional instructor at the University of Alberta, an independent facility development consultant, and contract art technician.  

Baker holds an MFA from the University of Lethbridge where she received a SSHRC grant for her research in performance in the absence of the artist’s body. She is represented by dc3 Art Projects in Edmonton.