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Felipe Baeza

1989
Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
2018
M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT
2009
B.F.A. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022
Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (forthcoming, Sept 22’)
2021
"Unruly Suspension," Maureen Paley, London, UK
2020
"Through the Flesh to Elsewhere," The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"La Emergencia de Hacer Memoria," Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2018
"FELIPE BAEZA," Maureen Paley, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances and Video Screenings

2022
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia," Venice, Italy
"Aqux," the Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Our Whole, Unruly Selves," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"RAÍZ," Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador
"Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow," New Orleans, LA
"Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection," Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
"RED," Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"The Displaced Image," Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
"Desert X," Coachella Valley, CA
"Genesis Baez, Felipe Baeza, Danielle Bowman, Jonathan Chacon, Justine Melford-Colegate, Kathryn Kerr, And Now," Dallas, TX
"De Por Vida," Company Gallery, New York, NY
"On the Other Side of Something + Walls for a Cause NYC," Orange Barrel Media and We Buy Gold, New York, NY
2020
“A Time of Monsters,” Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
“The Future is Latinx,” Eastern Connecticut State University Art Gallery, Windham, CT; traveled to Schitkamp Art Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA
“We Live! Memories of Resistance,” OXY Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
“View from Here,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection,” Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2019
“NXTHVN: First Year Fellows,” Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
“Queer Forms,” Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
“Right Behind Your Eyes,” Capsule, Shanghai, CHI
“They Gaze,” James Fuentes, New York, NY
“Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall Era,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; traveled to Center for Creativity and Arts, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA
“Nesting Habits,” LTD Los Angeles, New York, NY
“Four,” Yossi Milo, New York, NY
“Underlying Borders,” The Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC
2018
“The Least Orthodox Goddess IV,” Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY
XL Catlin Art Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; traveled to Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL; and New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
“Tails,” Next to Nothing, New York, NY
The New Contemporaries Vol. 1, Residency, Los Angeles, CA
“Four Artists,” Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
“Way Out Now,” Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, CA
“Demolition WoManhood,” Skibum MacArthur/Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
“No Longer Yours,” The Mistake Room/Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MEX
“Internalized Borders,” Presidents Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY
“Wild Seed,” MFA Thesis, Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal,” Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
“Kaleidoscope,” Kravets Wehby, New York, NY
“Le Male,” O’Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
“Proxemics,” Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
2017
“Reconstruir,” 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
“Feast,” Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Kink and Politics: The Ties That Bind,” David Nolan, New York, NY
New Prints 2017/Summer-Selected by Katherine Bradford, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2016
MFA 2018, Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015
“Acting On Dreams: The State of Immigrant Rights, Conditions, and Advocacy in the United States,” Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
“Translations,” Feldenheimer Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
2014
“Residual Impression,” Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY
“(Un)Mediated,” Kunsthalle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
“Carving Through Borders,” Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
“Queer Communities In Print,” AIRSPACE Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Carving Through Borders,” Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, CA
“Queer Communities In Print,” Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Queer Communities In Print,” SGC International, San Francisco, CA
2013
“Exuberant Politics,” Zenzic Press, Iowa City, IA
“Pulso: Arte de las Americas/Art of the Americas,” Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
“Uprisings: Images From Labor,” UWM Union Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012
New Prints 2012/Summer-Selected by Shahzia Sikander, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
“DIVERGENCE,” Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
“Know Gays Aloud,” Art for Change Gallery, New York, NY
“Postcards from the Edge,” Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2011
“KEYED,” Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
“AKT,” GALLERY 77, Kromeriz, Czech Republic
“Alternate Routes: New Work by Keyholder Artists in Residence,” Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
“The Reawakening Series,” MC Gallery, New York, NY
“QUEEROCRACY Art,” The New School, New York, NY
2010
New Prints Part II/Philagrafika, Meyerson Hall Gallery UPENN, Philadelphia, PA
New Prints 2010/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2009
“The Book as its Own Addendum,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
“End of Year Show,” The Cooper Union, New York, NY
“Alumni @ 22,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Si me Niegas Antes los Hombres, Te Negaré Ante mi Padre,” Great Hall Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2008
“Publication-Schmublication,” Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
“Alumni @ 21,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
“End Of Year Show,” The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2007
“New Work-New York,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
“Felipe Baeza,” Meztli Gallery, Chicago, IL

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2023
Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL
2022-23
Artist in Residence, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2019
NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program, New Haven, CT
2018
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipient
2017
The Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship
The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation Traveling Fellowship
2013
Anderson Ranch Arts Center Presidential Scholarship, Snowmass Village, CO
2010
Lower East Side Keyholder Residency, New York, NY
2009
Michael S. Vivo Prize for Drawing

Public Collections

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA