Nicolas Baird is a paleobiologist and artist whose work frames the world as a network of strange kin. In their scientific research, they look back in time to understand how bodies, landscapes, and climate influence each other. In their artistic practice, they explore mutability, relationality, and adaptation through photography, poetry, and performance.

Alongside their scientific research and artistic practice, Baird co-directs the Institute of Queer Ecology, a continuously evolving collaboration that creates and commissions projects for a more beautiful, strange, (bio)diverse world.

Baird is currently a Graduate Fellow of the American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Graduate School and a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

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Photo by Juan Luis Matos.