Yevgeniya Baras is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Yevgeniya has a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).
Yevgeniya has exhibited her work in several New York City galleries and internationally. She is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in NY and shows with the Landing Gallery in LA. Yevgeniya was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant and the Chinati Foundation ... view more »
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Yevgeniya has a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).
Yevgeniya has exhibited her work in several New York City galleries and internationally. She is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in NY and shows with the Landing Gallery in LA. Yevgeniya was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant and the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, and Art in America. Yevgeniya’s next solo exhibitions are in Berlin at 68Projects in October 2018, in NY at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in April 2019 and in Detroit at Reyes Projects in Sept 2019.
Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY for eight years . The gallery closed in the Spring of 2018. Yevgeniya has curated and co-curated over twenty exhibitions at Regina Rex and other galleries in NY, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Yevgeniya has been teaching painting, drawing, and art history for the past ten years to college students. She is currently teaching at RISD and Sarah Lawrence College.
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