Genesis Báez

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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Jan Mun

Artist Statement

As an artist working with digital and living media, I create social sculptures. The landscape has become the framework through which I unfold stories about others and myself using a combination of artistic and scientific processes that manifest as social engagements, interactive installations, photography, and bio-art. I create interfaces to elicit participation as a reflection and critique of our political and social systems. Working with communities, I innovate ideas to be realized through research, chance, and collaboration. My long-term projects include: -ProfileUS: Invasive Species examines the interconnections made by humans and other species that have migrated to the US and are adapting to their new or established environments through the lens of art, technology, and biopolitics. -The Fairy Rings is a series that uses mycoremediation and art to develop and innovate bioremediation practices for residents in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and elsewhere.

Jan Mun_The Fairy Rings: Mycoremediation @ ExxonMobil Petroleum Remediation Site, 2013_(Documentation-Installation detail of pink mushroom jump starting ecology and mycoremediation bags around monitoring well) In Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the ExxonMobil Petroleum Remediation Site, the epicenter of one of the largest oil spills in the US. Mycoremediation bags are installed in a maze of "fairy rings" around the monitor wells that tack the size of the oil plume.

Bio

Jan Mun creates social sculptures with digital and living media. Mun received a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BFA from SUNY New Paltz. Her work has been in exhibitions at the Queens Museum, City Museum of New York, The Cathedral at Saint John the Divine, Battery Park, NY; Wave Hill, Bronx; as well as at the ExxonMobil Greenpoint Remediation Project, Brooklyn. She has had residencies at Headland Center for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York Hall of Science, and Newtown Creek Alliance. She is the recipient of awards and grants from Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art, the Harpo Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, A Blade of Grass, and the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. Mun is on the Newtown Creek EPA Superfund Community Advisory Group, a board member at Newtown Creek Alliance, and a honey beekeeper at the Central Park Zoo.

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