Felipe Baeza

Felipe Baeza fuses collage, painting, printmaking, and other techniques to create multilayered, textural works that explore notions of the body, immigrant, and queer experiences. Baeza’s figures created over densely layered paintings often appear in different states of becoming and are sometimes even abstracted to the point of invisibility. Described as “fugitive” and “unruly” bodies by the artist, Baeza crafts hybrid figures where the human and the non-human merge to create fantastical images that conjure realms of myth, spirit, imagination, and contemporary themes. Untethered to specific temporal or spatial referents, Baeza's figures construct alternative possibilities for themselves as autonomous and hyper-connected subjects. As the artist states of his own fascination with the fragmented body, “If queerness were a project, the project would never be complete. It’s this incompleteness that allows for imagination.”

"Untitled (Los Otros) / Untitled (Los Otros) no 2"
All image credits, © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London; kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York
"Tengo un crecimiento que atender" - courtesy of Fabiola Alondra

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Felipe Baeza was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico in 1987 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2009), and an MFA from Yale University (2018). He has had solo exhibitions at the Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA (2023); Fortnight Institute, New York, NY, USA (2022); Maureen Paley, London, UK (2021); and Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2020). His work was included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2022); Prospect. 5 New Orleans: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, New Orleans, LA, USA (2021); Desert X, Palm Springs, CA, USA (2021); and other group exhibitions at STUK Art Center, Leuven, Belgium (2024); Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine (2024); Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023); Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, USA (2023); Centro de Arte Contemporeáno, Quito, Ecuador (2021); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA (2021); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA (2021); LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2020); OXY Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2020); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA (2019); and many others.

Baeza is the recipient of a Latinx Artist Fellowship by the U.S. Latinx Art Forum, Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, NXTHVN Studio Fellowship, and Getty Research Institute Fellowship among other awards. His works are in the public collections of Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA; LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA.