Artist Statement
Genesis Baez makes photographs that consider the fluidity of place, the effects of diaspora, and the intersections of personal and collective histories. Made in both Puerto Rico and the Northeast US, Baez photographs the transitory; light, gestures, and landscapes give shape to fragmented and temporal experiences of existing between worlds.
Genesis Baez, Crossing Time, Archival Pigment Print, 2022, 24"x32"
Bio
Genesis Báez is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Massachusetts, Baez grew up in both the Northeast US and Puerto Rico. She has exhibited her work internationally, most recently at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ballroom Marfa, the Yale University Art Gallery, Huxley Parlour in London, ARCO Madrid, amongst others. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the Detroit Institute of Arts, amongst others. Báez is the recipient of a 2022 NYFA/NYSCA Photography Fellowship, the 2022 Capricious Photo Award, and a 2023 Lighthouse Works Fellowship. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and is an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Báez currently teaches at Williams College
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