felipe baeza
1987, Celaya, Mexico
Felipe Baeza fuses collage, painting, printmaking, and other techniques to create multilayered, textural works that explore the body as a site of transformation. His sensually rich, visually arresting compositions evoke mythic dimensions, portraying figures in shifting states of becoming—sometimes rendered so abstractly they verge on disappearance. These figures are hybrid, fugitive, and unruly, merging human and nonhuman elements to form fantastical beings that inhabit realms of myth, spirit, and imagination. Untethered from fixed temporal or spatial contexts, they construct alternative possibilities for selfhood and agency. Through this fluid, speculative approach, Baeza reimagines how bodies might exist and resist the constraints of dominant narratives.
Baeza received his BFA from Cooper Union, New York, and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. His residencies include the Federico Sevilla Sierra Residency, Mullowney Printing, Portland, Oregon (2023); Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado (2023); Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2022); and the Lower East Side Keyholder Residency, New York (2010). Baeza has been awarded fellowships such as the Latinx Artist Fellowship, US Latinx Art Forum (2023); the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program, New Haven, Connecticut (2019); and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Traveling Fellowship (2017). Baeza was awarded the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Visual Arts (2025), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2025), The Cooper Union’s President’s Citation, New York (2025); JFK Airport Medallion Commission presented by JFK Millennium Partners and Public Art Fund, New York (2024); the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2018); The Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship (2017); and the Michael S. Vivo Prize for Drawing (2009).
Baeza’s work is held in several institutional collections, including the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA), California; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Baeza lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
felipe baeza. made into being II, 2024
felipe baeza. another place, another way, 2024
unrecognizable form, refusing to be governed, 2022. ink, embroidery, acrylic, graphite, varnish, and cut paper on panel. 20 x 16 inches
the self must create its own reason for being, 2022. ink, acrylic, varnish, glitter, graphite, and cut paper on panel. 24 x 18 inches
emerging in difference, 2022. ink, graphite, glitter, interference powder, twine, acrylic, and cut paper on paper. 78 3/4 x 51 1/2 inches
a self that is not quite here but always in process, 2022. cast lead crystal glass. 17 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (left arm), 16 x 5 inches (right arm)
tanto refugio como advertencia a la vez, 2019.
fogata, 2009
naj tunich azul 1, 2018
mujer arrodillada (gente del occidente de méxico), 2017-2019. collage on paper. 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches
post-colonial object of desire 5, 2015. collage on paper. 11 x 8 inches
post colonial object of desire 1, 2015
objeto de la nueva españa 2, 2010
actos santos 3, 2007.
installation view the milk of dreams, la biennale di venezia, 2022. photo: roberto marossi
installation view narrative threads, fiber art today, moody center for the arts, 2023. photo: sean fleming
unruly forms II, 2022. © felipe baeza. courtesy maureen paley, london. photo: nicholas knight, courtesy public art fund, ny. presented by publicart fund as a part of felipe baeza: unruly forms, an exhibition on 400+ jcdecauxbus shelters and street furniture in new york, boston, and chicago in the united states and mexico city, león, and querétaro in mexico, august 9–november 19, 2023
Solo exhibitions include: Anima, Print Center New York (2026); Sentir un entonces y un allí, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2025); Unruly Forms, organized by Public Art Fund, JCDecaux Bus Shelters citywide throughout Chicago, New York, Boston, Mexico City, Léon, and Querétaro, Mexico (2023); Made Into Being, Fortnight Institute, New York (2022); Unruly Suspension, Maureen Paley, London (2021); Through the Flesh to Elsewhere, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles (2020); La Emergencia de Hacer Memoria, Fortnight Institute, New York (2019); Felipe Baeza, Maureen Paley, London (2018), among others.
Group exhibitions include: House of Nisaba: The New Story of Painting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2026); Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2026); Dispossessions in the Americas, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, Illinois (2026); Ficciones Patógenas, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (2025); Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection, San José Museum of Art, California (2025); An Unlikely Inventory: Dialogues with Surrealism, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2024); Bienal FEMSA: La voz de la montaña, Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato, León, Mexico (2024); I Feel You, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine (2024); Artefact 2024: At the Still Point of the Turning World, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium (2024); Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts (2024); Following the Body, Fragment Gallery, New York (2023); Excavated Selves: Becoming Magic Bodies, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Alchemy Gallery, New York (2023); outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley, Hove, United Kingdom (2023); Aesthetics of Undocumentedness, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2023); The Dreamers, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York (2023); The Tale Their Terror Tells, Lyles & King, New York (2022); Finding Home in My Own Flesh (temporary wall mural), Desert X, Coachella Valley, Palm Springs, California (2021); RAIZ, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador (2021); View From Here, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (2020); A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience: 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia (2020); Right Behind Your Eyes, Capsule, Shanghai, China (2019); Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall Era, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2019); Underlying Borders, The Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C. (2019); XL Catlin Art Prize, organized by San Francisco Art Institute; traveled to Linda Warren Projects, Chicago; and New York Academy of Art (2018).
Baeza participated in The Milk of Dreams as part of the 59th Venice Biennale (2022).
Baeza’s work is held in several institutional collections, including the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA), California; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
