Yevgeniya Baras: Artist Lecture
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Both paintings: Untitled (2023), 20" x 16", mixed media and oil on canvas. image / provided
Abstract
Yevgeniya Baras will be discussing her work and her trajectory as an artist.
Biography
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist based in New York City. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns (New York City); Nicelle Beauchene (New York City); Reyes Finn Gallery (Detroit, Michigan); Gavin Brown Enterprise (New York City); Inman Gallery (Houston, Texas); Mother Gallery (New York City); Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York City); Thomas Erben Gallery (New York City) The Pit (Los Angeles); as well as internationally including NBB Gallery (Berlin); Julien Cadet Gallery (Paris); and Station Gallery (Sydney). She is represented by The Landing (Los Angeles) and Sargent's Daughters (New York City).
Baras was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018 and was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Baras was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014, she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation's Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America.
Baras cofounded and cocurated Regina Rex Gallery on New York's Lower East Side (2010–2018).
She holds a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an M.F.A. from SAIC (2007).
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