SAXON BAIRD
lives and works in Berlin, DE.
Exhibitions
2024 Les Boutographies #24 - Montpellier, FR
2023 This Will Not End Well - Redah. Berlin, DE
2022 Show + Tell #35 - Fototreff. Berlin, DE
2022 Ouroboros - Essex Flowers. New York NY
2022. Poetic Thinking - Handwerker Gallery. Ithaca, NY
2021 Late/Refusals - Oranbeg. Boston, MA
2021 Face to Face - Site: Brooklyn. Brooklyn, NY
2021 The Unwritten - Stelio Crise. Trieste, Italy.
2021 FL/NY - Gander. Brooklyn, NY.
2020 At that time we didn’t know how to buy an RV. Blue Arrangements. Salem, MA
2020 Xerox Party - Sad Songs NYC. Brooklyn NY
2019 I don’t want to die in a nuclear war - Java Studios. Brooklyn, NY.
2019 Stranger than Fiction - Millepiani. Rome, Italy.
2016 California - Fullerton Museum Center. Fullerton, CA.
2015. Drifting in Daylight - Creative Time. New York. NY
2014 Sweet Show - PNCA Gallery. Portland, OR
Publications Features
2023 Monopol. “Saxon Baird: Bei den weißen Männern ist etwas besonders kaputt”
2023 Der Greif. Guest Room: “Happy accidents” (Editor: Simon Baker & Aden Vincendeau)
2023 - Der Greif . Guest Room:“Balance Belonging” (Editor: Marina Paulenka)
2022 - How to Build a Paper Clock - ITI Press (broadsheet featured at NYABF)
2022 - Foam. “Glyphs: The Image + Text Issue”
2022- Ouroboros - ITI Press
2021 - The Shoutflower. “Two Photos” Vol. 2. (print)
2019 - F-Stop Magazine. "Animals.” April 2019 issue.
Residencies, Awards, Grants, Etc.
2024 Münchner Kammerspiele “Auf nach Woanders” Selected Artist
2024 Rich & Famous 2024 Selection, fhochdrei | freiraum für fotografie, Berlin, DE
2023 Pilotkueche Residency, Leipzig, DE
2023 Laimun Residency, Ahorn Books, Berlin, DE
2020 Communications Literary Scholar, Ithaca College
2020 Communications Literary Scholar, Ithaca College
2016 Residency, Picture Berlin, Berlin, DE.
2015 Artist-in-Residence, John Day National Monument
2015 “Best of Gothamist” End of Year Award
2014 Peabody Award (Afropop Worldwide), University of Georgia
2013 Media Makers Grant, (Co-Writer), National Endowment for the Humanities
2012 Kawase Scholarship, Portland State University
Fiction / Poetry
2021 - California Dreamin’ - Rejection Letters
2021 - To Richard, 30 Years After His Heart Exploded - Twin Pies Literary
2020 - Re: The Town’s Business - Collaborative Novel, Editor Lucy Ives
2020 - The Party Never Ends - Daily Drunk
2020 - Hannah - Connecticut River Review (print)
2020 - The Diver - Juked
2020 - Travel+Leisure Has Said that Avocado On Toast Comes from Australia - Maudlin House
2019 - “Miami/Dade” - self-published image-text zine
2019 - “the song said to have faith in wordless knowledge” - self-published image-text zine
2017 - Ed’s Ashes - Queen Mob’s Teahouse
2016 - The Knife - The Fanzine
Selected Articles
2024 - "The San Francisco album about redwoods started a new age of music” - SF Gate
2024 - Inside Atlanta’s New Class of Indie Rock - Bandcamp (forthcoming)
2023 - Inside the Reggaeton lawsuit that could shake the pop world - The Guardian
2021 - Dreams of Being: Write or Die Trying - 3AM
2020 - MLS Unwritten Culture of Censorship is Alienating Fans and Player Alike - Guernica
2019 - Inside the Elaborate Schemes Restaurants Use to Survive Health Inspections - Eater
2019 - Why Female Surfers Are Finally Getting Paid Like Their Male Peers - The Atlantic
2018 - Brooklyn Raga Massive Revives India’s Classical Sound - Bandcamp
2018 - N.C. Raga Revival Holds a Space for Indian Classical Music in the Triangle - Indy Week
2018 - A Guide to the Diverse Cassette Scene of Santiago, Chile - Bandcamp
2018 - Amen Dunes has always written pop songs. Now he wants people to actually hear them - The FADER
2017 - The Weird One: Devadip Carlos Santana and Turiya Alice Coltrane’s “Illuminations - RBMA Daily
2017 - The Weird One: Sublime “Robbin’ The Hood” - RBMA Daily
2017 - The Punk Practices of Jim Jarmusch - RBMA Daily
2016 - The Luxury of Quitting - Eater
2016 - Like it or not, the Brazilian Storm Has Taken Over Pro Surfing - Vice
2016 - Remembering The King of Ska: Essential Tracks From Prince Buster, 1938-2016 - Large Up
2016 - R.I.P. Philip Smart: 13 Classics From His HC&F Studio - Large Up
2015-2016 - All contributions to Large Up
2016 - B-Roll Weekends - Blunderbuss
2016 - Patricide: An American Mess - 3AM
2015 - Babylon Backs Down: What will the decriminalization of marijuana mean for Rastafarians? - Slate
2015 - The Curious Bond Between Surfers and Burritos - Extra Crispy
2014 - The Dying Days of Vinyl in Reggae’s Capital - Guernica
2014- What's The Deal With All These Australians In NYC? - Gothamist
2013 - What Happens to Dancehall without Vybz Kartel? - MTV
2013 - Popcaan Makes Everything Nice in Dancehall Again - MTV
2013 - Bachata Worldwide: Why the Dominican Sound is Everywhere - MTV
2012 - Kingdom on Making Eerie Club Music - Prefix Mag
2012 - 10 Great Punk Songs About New York City - Prefix Mag
2012- All Contributions to Potholes in My Blog
2011 - How Many Mics? Revisiting the Fugees ‘The Score’ 15 Years Later - Prefix Mag
2010 - Interview with The Clientele - Willamette Week
2010 - Rick Ross: Teflon Don - Pop Matters
2009 - Interview with Laura Veirs - The AV Club
2009 - Fame Fortune, and a Fat Queer Icon: Interview with The Gossip - Popmatters
2009 - Take it From An Honest Man: Interview w A.A. Bondy - Popmatters
2009-2010 - All contributions to Pop Matters
2009 - One on One with M83 - Teen Vogue
Production - Radio, Podcasts
2020-2024 - Money 4 Nothing - Host / Producer
2023 - RTE - Documentary on One: #JusticeforNoor - Recordist, Researcher
2019-2022 - The Burden - Orbit Media - Producer, Recordist, Researcher
2018 - The Fader Explains Podcast: Songs of the Summer (10 episodes) - Producer
2017-2018 - Red Bull Radio - Producer, Interviewer
2017 - 2018 Peak Time (170+ live episodes)
2018 - Fireside Chat (Selected)
Eartheater
Geneva Jacuzzi
Bedouine
2012-2017 - PRI’s Afropop Worldwide - Producer
Production, reporting, research and interviews for the following hour-long radio documentaries:
2014 - The Mighty Amazon
2014- Jamaica In New York: The History of Reggae and Dancehall in the Big Apple
2013 - Crate Diggers & Remixers
Readings/Talks:
2023 - Sound Studies Reading Series, Athens, GA
2023 - Water and Music Tech & Music Summit (Money 4 Nothing live recording)
2022 - “Music, NFTs and Other Emerging Digital Markets,” Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
2017: Sundays at Ervs Reading Series
2016 - Catapult Reading Series
2016- Manhattanville Reading Series
2015 - Reggae Conference University of West Indies, Jamaica
TV Appearances
2019 - NYC DOH Grading System - Fox News 5
2014 - The Australian Advantage - Cuny TV
2014 - Australians in New York City - ABC Australia
Bibliography
2017 - Walking Through Social Research - Charlotte Bates, Alex Rhys-Taylor
2015 - Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Guide to NYC - ed. Andrew F. Smith