Yevgeniya Baras
Yevgeniya Baras
Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, former Soviet Union) is an artist in New York. 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).
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' 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.
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 (2010-2018).
Body Full of Stars , New York
June 21 - July 28, 2023
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Solo Exhibition, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition, Soco Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2022
Labor,Mystery,Labor,Dream, The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
Change of Heart, NBB Gallery, Berlin, Germany Still Moving To Me, Station Gallery, Melbourne,Australia
2021
Invisible Line, Station Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2020
I Sit By The Window, The Landing, Los Angeles, LA
2019
Skirting Legibility, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit, MI Seam, Scar, Sign, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Towards Something Standing Open, The Landing, Los Angeles, LA (Reviewed in Artforum and LA Times)
Clocks Within, 68Projects, Berlin The Day Is Long, The Locker Plant, Marfa, TX
2016
All Inside of Itself, Close, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY (Reviewed by Karen Rosenberg in the New York Times)
2015
Of Things Soothsaid and Spoken, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, NY (Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times)
TWO AND THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
Wild Chambers, Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Kunin, Mother Gallery, NY (Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times)
Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte, Gallery at Heimbold, Dodd Galleries, and Sarah Moody Gallery , NY, GA, AL
2020
Parts of Speech: Yevgeniya Baras and Julia Haft Candell, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2018
Yevgeniya Baras, Matt Phillips, and John Dilg, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
Yevgeniya Baras, Lauren McKeon, Sahar Khoury, Interface Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Yevgeniya Baras, Erin Lee Jones, Nickola Pottinger, Mild Climate, Nashville, TN
2017
Triad: Yevgeniya Baras, Mike Cloud, Zachary Wollard, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Yevgeniya Baras and Teresa Baker, The Alice, Seattle, WA
Yevgeniya Baras, Carolin Eidner and Adelhyd van Bender, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Materiality: Yevgeniya Baras, Thornton Dial, Joey Archuleta, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY 2011
Hide: Yevgeniya Baras and Leeza Meksin, Adds Donna, Chicago, IL 2007
Yevgeniya Baras and Harold Mendez, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Touchstones, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
The Ways of Magic, Troost Gardens, Kansas City, MO
2022 Given Time, Milton Resnick Foundation
To Make Me Forget About Now, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, France
The Fire and the Cow, Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, Italy
Forward Ground , Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
Cosmic Geometries, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2021
Use Your Words, Studio Archive Project, New York, NY
Convergent Acts, Bubble'n Squeak, Brussels, Belgium
A New Art World, Guts Gallery, London, UK
Proximity, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fredy, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Glyphadelphia, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2020
Painted Pidgin, St. Charles, Baltimore, MD
2019
Material Properties, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
By Our Own Hands, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA
Summer Gang, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
Notebook, 56 HENRY, New York, NY 2018
Setting Forth by Signs, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
Gardening the Moon, George Lawson Gallery, Emeryville, CA
Cupping the Counter, Motel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gangs of NY, Adds Donna, Chicago, IL
If Field Could Become Some Dream, No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH
Cruelest Month, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
Isness, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Summer Trip, Tripoli Gallery, Southhampton, NY
Pictography, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Shampoo Effect, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
We Might Not Have a Planet Left Soon, 68Projects, Berlin, Germany
Say Yes, Wayne State University, MI
Quorum, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA 2016
Good Old New Place, Cuevas Tilleard, New York, NY
SummerZCool , David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
Goulding the Lolly, Gavin Brown Enterprise , New York, NY
The Faraway Inside, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY
Lost For Words, In Collaboration with Matthew Higgs, Murray Guy, New York, NY
Looking Back, Curated By Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY
Physical Painting, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
2015
Hot Slice, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL Muscular, Curated by John McAllister, Kansas Gallery, New York, NY
Cold Cups of Boiling Water, Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Thinking &Touching Time, Curated by Zahar Vaks. Ortega Y Gasset Projects, New York, NY
2014
Four Who Paint, Valentine Gallery, Ridgewood, NY
Portraits in Convex Mirrors, Curated by Em Rooney Bannerette, Brooklyn,NY
Heart’s Gymnastics, Outpost Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
By Invitation Only 3, Curated by Renee Riccardo, Kinz +Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Last Brucennial, New York, NY
New Threads, Lamar Dodd Gallery, Athens, GA
2013
Caving, Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY
See with Fingers, Curated by Laurel Sparxx, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Split 7, Curated by Matt Phillips, Folwer Arts, New York, NY
Encounter, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Centaurs and Satyrs, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY.
Foreign Bodies, Set Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2011
Rich-oo-uhl, Rich-oo-uhl, Jolie Laide, Philadephia, PA
New Year, New Work, New Faces, Storefront, New York, NY
2022
Smith, Roberta, New York Times Review, “ What to See in NYC Galleries Right Now”, September 28
2020
Marisa Mazria Katz, The New York Review of Books, “Painting a Knotty Landscape”, May 30
2018
Gerwin, Daniel, Artforum, Critics’ Picks, February 19
Pagel, David, LA Times, “Internal Murmurs Amplified”, February 18
2016
Griffin, Nora, Art In America, “Yevgeniya Baras at Nicelle Beauchene” December 1
Rosenberg, Karen, New York Times, “What to See In New York Art Galleries This Week”, September 23
Saltz, Jerry, NY Magazine, “ Twenty-five things to hear, watch, and read”, September 18
Saltz, Jerry, Vulture, “Never Has My Breath Been Taken Away Like It Was at Knockdown Center”, June 16, 2016
IAP Interview: Yevgeniya Baras, NYFA Current, January 26, 2016
2015
Elisabeth Kley, ArtNews, “Yevgeniya Baras, June Smith, Roberta, New York Times Review, “Yevgeniya Baras: Of Things Soothsaid and Spoken”, March 26
William Eckhardt Kohler, Huffington Post, "Of Things Soothsaid and Spoken: Paintings by Yevgeniya Baras”, November 22
2013
Profile in Art in America, April 1