Genesis Báez

Genesis Báez is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She has recently exhibited work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Kilometro in San Juan, PR, Princeton University Art Museum, Huxley Parlour in London, ARCO Madrid, and Yancey Richardson in New York. Her works are represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Báez is a 2022 NYFA/ NYSCA Photography Fellow, the recipient of the 2022 Capricious Photo Award, and a 2023 Lighthouse Works Fellowship. Her work has appeared in publications such as Aperture, The British Journal of Photography, and BOMB Magazine. Centering photography, Báez’s practice delves into performance, relationships to place, and where personal and collective histories merge. Báez was born in Massachusetts to Puerto Rican migrants, and was raised in New England and Puerto Rico. She received her BFA with honors from Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She is also an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Báez currently teaches and works out of her studio at Williams College.