Felipe Baeza
(Mexico, 1987)
Felipe Baeza was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009, and is currently an MFA Candidate in the Painting/Printmaking program at Yale School of Art. Baeza’s collage and printmaking works concern themselves with how memory, displacement, and migration create states of fugitivity, and subsequently, how strategies of self-emancipation emerge out of existing in hyper-policed spaces. His practice in printmaking explores and confronts the medium’s own complicity in the construction of Western, Colonial thought. This exploration led to Baeza’s conceptualization of what he calls fugitive bodies – racialized, queered, and othered persons who escape the state’s limitations on identity. These figures are present in his works, are always in the process of becoming, sharing an open-ended understanding of what it means to be alive, and the fluidity of self.
Baeza lives between Brooklyn, NY and New Haven, CT. He is the 2017 recipient of the The Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship and The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation Traveling Fellowship.
