Mowry Baden received his MA from Stanford University in 1965. He taught at the University of Victoria from 1975-1997. He has had solo exhibitions in Italy, Mexico, England, and a number of places in the USA and Canada including Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Banff, Toronto and Vancouver. Baden makes "task-oriented" sculptures that require the viewer to interact physically and conceptually with the artwork. In 1998 his work was included in the survey exhibition "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1959-1979" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. His work is in many public and private collections including the the Oakland Art Museum, the University of California, the Washington Project for the Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.