Yevgeniya Baras
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BIO
Yevgeniya Baras (Syzran, former Soviet Union) received a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MA in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Baras is a multidisciplinary artist who utilizes unconventional materials and oil paint to create thick impasto works exploring migration and identity.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at 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; Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY; The Landing, Los Angeles, CA; NBB Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Julien Cadet Gallery, Paris, France; Station Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Yevgeniya 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 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. Baras co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side in 2010. Baras lives and works in New York.
