Genesis Báez
(she/her/hers)
genesisbaez@gmail.com
Genesis Báez is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Centering photography, Báez merges fiction, personal narratives, and social histories of modern colonization in a conversation around placemaking. Her works foreground the material qualities of photography, such as relative stasis, edges, and light, and how they come to reveal our permeability: the interconnections that underpin our personal and social lives. Her recent monograph, Blue Sun (Capricious Publishing, 2025), weaves a decade of photographs made in Puerto Rico and its diaspora.
Báez’s works have recently exhibited 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 and the recipient of the 2022 Capricious Photo Award. Her work has appeared in publications such as Aperture, The British Journal of Photography, and BOMB Magazine.
Born in Massachusetts to Puerto Rican migrants, Báez 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. She currently teaches photography at Williams College and Sarah Lawrence College.
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Education
2019 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME
2012 BFA, Departmental Honors, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Awards & Fellowships
2024 Marble House Projects, Dorset VT
2023 Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY
2022 Capricious Photo Award, New York, NY
NYFA + NYSCA Photography Fellowship, New York, NY
Center for Photography at Woodstock AIR Fellowship, Woodstock, NY
2019 John Ferguson Weir Award for excellence within the School of Art, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2018 Critical Practice Award & Research Fellowship, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Norfolk, CT
2015 Civil Society Institute Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Latin American Fotografía 4, New York, NY/ Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Saint Botolph Emerging Artist Award Nominee, Boston, MA
2012 Departmental Honors in Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship, Taunton, MA
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Yale University Art Gallery
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY
Soloviev Foundation, New York
Publications in Public Collections:
Museum of Modern Art Library
Metropolitan Museum of Art Library
SUNY New Paltz Library
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Solo* & Two-Person Exhibitions
2023-24 Tragaluz, Genesis Báez + Sofía Gallisá Muriente, KM. 02, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2022-23 Silt of Each Other, Genesis Báez + Jenny Calivas, Justine Kurland Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2018 *Reclamation/Reclamación, Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions & *Screenings
2023-24 Trust Me, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2023 Pictures of Us, Gathering, London, UK
What is Ours, Center for Photography at Woodstock at PHOTOFAIRS NYC
You Belong Here: Place, People, And Purpose in Latinx Photography, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The Buoyancy Show, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts/ Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
We Share The Same Sky, Vortic Art
You Belong Here: Place, People, And Purpose in Latinx Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
2022 Ecstatic Land, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
Of Objects and Shadows, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY
In Dispersion/ En Dispersion, VisArts, Rockville MD
Conscious Response, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Studio Window, Justine Kurland Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2021 I Belong to This, curated by Justine Kurland, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
ARCO Madrid, with Ponce + Robles, Madrid, Spain
La memoria del agua (The Memory of Water) curated by Susanna V. Temkin, Ponce + Robles, Madrid, Spain
Genesis Baez, Felipe Baeza, Dannielle Bowman, Jonathan Chacon, Justine Melford-Colegate, Kathryn Kerr, curated by Leslie Martinez,
And Now, Dallas, TX
Free as Air and Water, curated by Tajh Rust, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
2020-21 Imperfect Clocks, Chart Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Incertidumbre y subversión en lo cotidiano, Diagonal, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2019 Transcript, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Yale MFA Photography Thesis, Green Gallery at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
New Genres Festival, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
2018 Under a Dismal Boston Skyline, Stone Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA
Words Cannot Express, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2017 Space: Placemaking in the 21st Century, New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA
First Year MFA Exhibition, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
PRACTICE: An Assertion of Sympathetic Magic, Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Backyard Biennial, Queens, NY
Stand Up, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2016 Flash Forward Film Festival, Boston, MA
Hello, World!, Art Space, New Haven, CT
2015 ARTcetera, US Art, Randolph, MA
All Visual Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
No Shake, Not Here..., Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Below the Sky, Above the Clouds, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
Yeah, You Missed it..., Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Between Shores, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
On Photography, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
2014 Port Call, Harbor Arts, East Boston, MA
A Brief History of Time, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Re: No Subject, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Placed: Inside Out... A Pop Up..., Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Carousel V, New Art Center, Newton, MA
¡Que Lástima! 2, Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2013 Young Boston Artists, Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
¡Que Lástima!, Godine Family Gallery, Boston MA
Histories of Now, Grossman Gallery, Boston MA
All Visual Boston III, Spectacle Gallery, Boston, MA
2012 Photography Thesis Exhibition, President's Gallery, Boston, MA
PRC Juried Student Exhibition, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Seven Photographers, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA
Academic Positions
2025- Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers NY, Visiting Lecturer
2023- 2025 Williams College, Williamstown, MA- Visiting Lecturer // Sabbatical replacement
2023 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT - Graduate Critic in Photography
2021-2023 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY -Visiting Assistant Professor
Parsons School of Design/ The New School, New York, NY -Visiting Lecturer
2021 Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA -MFA/Graduate Mentor
Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA -Visiting Lecturer
2020-21 Drew University, Madison, NJ -Visiting Lecturer
2019 Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ -Visiting Lecturer
Additional Teaching Experience
2020 Visiting Critic, New York University, New York, NY
2018 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Teaching Assistant to Martin Kersels
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR, Visiting Artist Workshop
2017-19 Yale University, Teaching Assistant:
Visualizing Identities in Gender/ Race/ Class with Ka-Man Tse
Advanced Photography with A.L Steiner
Visual Thinking with Anahita Vossoughi
2017-18 Yale University Art Gallery, Wurtele Graduate Gallery Teacher
2016-17 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Educator
2015 Hyde Square Task Force, Educator
2014 Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Educator
Teen New Media Program, ICA/ Boston, Youth Mentor
2012-14 Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston, Museum Educator
2011-12 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Teaching Assistant to Sam Contis
Artist Talks
2022 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT
Arizona State University School of Art, Tempe, AZ
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
2021 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
University of Texas/ Austin, New York City campus
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Drew University, Madison, NJ
2020 Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
California State University, Long Beach, CA
Lesley University College of Art + Design, Boston, MA
The Humid, Athens, Georgia
New York University, New York, NY
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2019 International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT
2018 Marble Hill Camera Club, New York, NY
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at the Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Selected Press + Publications:
2024 Title TBD, Monograph with Capricious Publishing, New York
2023 The Guardian on Trust Me at the Whitney Museum, NY
Silt of Each Other exhibition review in The Cut, New York
2022 La luz también viaja, Matarile Ediciones, Brooklyn, NY
The British Journal of Photography—Issue 7911: The Portraiture Issue; Dec. 2022
Portfolio of photographs; BOMB Magazine, issue 160; Summer 2022
2021 Portfolio of photographs; Aperture Magazine issue 245: Latinx
2020 Contribution to The Backroom, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Photographer of the week on Capricious
Interview with Art of Choice Experience Movement and Sound in Genesis Báez’s Photographs
Der Greif online Guest Room, curated by Oluremi Onabanjo
2019 Musée Magazine: Genesis Báez
2018 Art in America- Exhibition review of Under a Dismal Boston Skyline
Boston Art Review -Exhibition review of Under a Dismal Boston Skyline
2017 Accordion: Gatekeeper/ Print
2016 Guernica Magazine/ Online
Interview with The Evolving Critic/ Online
Take Magazine, February 2016/ Print
Artscope/ Online
2015 Yale Daily News/ Online
Papersafe: Across, A Wild Sea/ Print
Latin American Fotografía 4 Winning Collection Archive/ Online
Interview with Fototazo, Medellín, Colombia/ Online
Fotofilmic '15 International Photography Competition Catalog/ Print
Fotofilmic ‘15 Shortlist Feature/ Online
2014 Fotofilmic '14 International Photography Competition Catalog/ Print
Fotofilmic ‘14 Shortlist Feature/ Online
Incandescent Issue 6, Pine Island Press, Portland, OR/ Print
Accordion/ Print
Mossfull by Mossless Magazine/ Online
2013 Young New England Photographers 2/ Online
Incandescent Issue 4, Pine Island Press, Portland, Oregon/ Print
Artist Residencies
2024 Marble House Projects, Dorset, VT
2023 Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2022 Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT