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Yevgeniya Baras has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns (New York, NY); Nicelle Beauchene (New York, NY); Reyes Finn Gallery (Detroit, MI); Gavin Brown Enterprise (New York, NY); Inman Gallery (Houston, TX); Mother Gallery (New York, NY); Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York, NY); Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, NY) The Pit (Los Angeles, CA); as well as internationally including NBB Gallery (Berlin, Germany); Julien Cadet Gallery (Paris, France); Station Gallery (Sydney, Australia). She is
represented by The Landing (Los Angeles, CA)
and Sargent's Daughters (New York, NY).
Baras's paintings take shape through a process
of layering and accumulation, combining oil
media with various found and unconventional
materials. The resulting objects hover between
painting and sculptural relief, with layers that
frequently extend onto the sides and supports
of the canvas, refusing any definitive
boundary. Within these stratified
compositions, Baras creates symbolic
topographies which address ideas of language,
migration, and translation. The material
richness of the work serves to generate
abstractions that are encoded and deeply
personal.
Baras is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant
in 2023 and 2018. Baras was named Senior
Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a
recipient of the New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellowship in 2021, 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, The
Los Angeles Times, ArtForum, The New York Review
of Books, and Art in America.
Baras co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex
Gallery in New York's Lower East Side (2010-
2018).
Baras holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts
and an MA in Education from the University of
Pennsylvania (2003), and an MFA in Painting
and Drawing from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago (2007).
About the author
Yevgeniya Baras is a two-time Pollock-Krasner grant recipient (2018, 2023) and was named Senior Fulbright Scholar
for 2022/23. 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, LA
Times, Artforum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America, amongst others.
She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns (New York, NY); Nicelle Beauchene
(New York, NY); Reyes Finn Gallery (Detroit, MI); Gavin Brown Enterprise (New York, NY); Inman
Gallery (Houston, TX); Mother Gallery (New York, NY); Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York, NY);
Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, NY) The Pit (Los Angeles, CA); as well as internationally including
NBB Gallery (Berlin, Germany); Julien Cadet Gallery (Paris, France); Station Gallery (Sydney, Australia).
She is represented by The Landing (Los Angeles, CA) and Sargent's Daughters (New York, NY) and has a
forthcoming solo exhibition with Sargent's Daughters NY this October.
