Mowry Baden

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Mowry Baden (born in 1936 in Los Angeles) is an American sculptor who lives and works in Canada.

He taught at Stanford University and the University of British Columbia, among others, before beginning his tenure at the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 1975. He is primarily known for his outdoor public sculpture which often requires an element of bodily interaction on the part of the viewer. Baden has also been influential as a teacher. Among his past students are several important contemporary artists, including Chris Burden, Lewis Baltz, Jessica Stockholder and Kim Adams.

In 2006, he was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Baden's work has been exhibited at the Galeria Excelsior, Mexico City (1957); Galleria Pogliani, Rome (1959); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1960); Cobar Gallery, New York (1962); University of Mexico, Mexico City (1963); San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (1968); The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (1972); Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles (1975); and so on up until the present (2006). He continues to produce and place public art, including sites in Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria, where his work has generated controversy.

Baden is married to actor-director-writer Judith McDowell.

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• Mowry Baden at the Pomona College Museum of Art
• 2006 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts