fuses collage, painting, printmaking, and other techniques to create multilayered, textural works that explore the body as a site of transformation. His sensually rich, visually arresting compositions evoke mythic dimensions, portraying figures in shifting states of becoming—sometimes rendered so abstractly they verge on disappearance. These figures are hybrid, fugitive, and unruly, merging human and nonhuman elements to form fantastical beings that inhabit realms of myth, spirit, and imagination. Untethered from fixed temporal or spatial contexts, they construct alternative possibilities for selfhood and agency. Through this fluid, speculative approach, Baeza reimagines how bodies might exist and resist the constraints of dominant narratives.
Baeza received his BFA from Cooper Union, New York, and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. His residencies include the Federico Sevilla Sierra Residency, Mullowney Printing, Portland, Oregon (2023); Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado (2023); Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2022); and the Lower East Side Keyholder Residency, New York (2010). Baeza has been awarded fellowships such as the Latinx Artist Fellowship, US Latinx Art Forum (2023); the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program, New Haven, Connecticut (2019); and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Traveling Fellowship (2017). Baeza was awarded the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Visual Arts (2025), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2025), The Cooper Union’s President’s Citation, New York (2025); JFK Airport Medallion Commission presented by JFK Millennium Partners and Public Art Fund, New York (2024); the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2018); The Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship (2017); and the Michael S. Vivo Prize for Drawing (2009).
Baeza’s work is held in several institutional collections, including the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA), California; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
