Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series: Genesis Baez
Genesis Báez is an artist working with photography and video. Born in Massachusetts, Báez was raised in both the Northeast U.S. and Puerto Rico. She has exhibited her work internationally, most recently at ARCO Madrid with Ponce + Robles; Huxley-Parlour in London; Yancey Richardson in New York and CHART in New York. She holds an MFA from Yale University, where she was awarded the John Ferguson Weir Award for excellence within the School of Art, and the Critical Practice Award. She is an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and holds a BFA in photography with honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been featured in Aperture Magazine, and she has contributed to publications such as New York Magazine and Pop-Up Magazine. Báez currently teaches at the Pratt Institute and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.