Yevgeniya Baras — Sargent's Daughters

Yevgeniya Baras

Installation view, Dreamfeeding, 2025 — Installation view, *Dreamfeeding,* 2025

Yevgeniya Baras, Untitled, 2025, Oil and Mixed Media on Linen, 30 x 36 in. — Yevgeniya Baras, *Untitled,* 2025, Oil and Mixed Media on Linen, 30 x 36 in.

Yevgeniya Baras, Untitled, 2019, Oil and wood on linen, 12 x 9 in. — Yevgeniya Baras, *Untitled,* 2019, Oil and wood on linen, 12 x 9 in.

Installation view, Stargazer, 2023 — Installation view, *Stargazer,* 2023

Yevgeniya Baras, Untitled, 2017-2021, Oil and wood on canvas, 9 x 12 in. — Yevgeniya Baras, *Untitled,* 2017-2021, Oil and wood on canvas, 9 x 12 in.

Yevgeniya Baras, Untitled, 2017-2021, Oil, cloth and wood on canvas, 24 x 20 in. — Yevgeniya Baras, *Untitled,* 2017-2021, Oil, cloth and wood on canvas, 24 x 20 in.

Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, former Soviet Union) is an artist based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Ever Ever, More More at Inman Gallery, Houston (2026); Dreamfeeding at Sargent’s Daughters, New York (2025); Farfinds at SOCO Gallery, Charlotte (2024); Labor, Mystery, Labor, Dream at The Landing, Los Angeles (2022); and Change of Heart at NBB Gallery, Berlin (2022). Group exhibitions include The Brooklyn Artists Show at the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2024); The Imaginary Made Real at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York (2024); Berlin On My Mind at 68projects, Berlin (2024); Painting Deconstructed at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn (2024); and Death of Beauty at Sargent’s Daughters, New York (2023). Her work has also been exhibited at White Columns, New York; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit; Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; and Sperone Westwater, New York, among others. Internationally, her work has been exhibited at NBB Gallery, Berlin; Julien Cadet Gallery, Paris; and Station Gallery, Sydney. Baras received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019 and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants in 2018 and 2023. She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters.

Baras' paintings take shape through a process of layering and accumulation, combining oil media with various found and unconventional materials. The resulting objects hover between painting and sculptural relief, with layers that frequently extend onto the sides and supports of the canvas, refusing any definitive boundary. Within these stratified compositions, Baras creates symbolic topographies which address ideas of language, migration, and translation. The material richness of the work serves to generate abstractions that are encoded and deeply personal.

Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Baras was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Baras was selected for 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 a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America, amongst others.

Baras co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side (2010-2018).

Baras holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MA in Education from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).

Exhibitions

Leitmotif

Dreamfeeding

Independent New York 2024

Stargazer

Death of Beauty

Touchstones

Yevgeniya Baras - online viewing room

News

Ever Ever, More More, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX | May 16 – July 11, 2026

Instrumentals, Personal Space, Vallejo, CA | August 17 – September 28, 2025

The Brooklyn Artists Show, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | October 4, 2024 – January 26, 2025