Felipe Baeza (Guanajuato, Mexico, 1987) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work merges painting, printmaking, and collage to explore themes of identity, migration, and transformation. He earned his BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale University, developing a practice centered on material experimentation, particularly in works on paper. Through labor-intensive processes of layering, cutting, and reassembling, Baeza creates richly textured surfaces that blur the boundaries between figuration and abstraction.
His imagery often features hybrid figures in states of flux, merging human, animal, and botanical forms to challenge fixed notions of selfhood and belonging. Influenced by mythology, religious iconography, and psychoanalysis, his work envisions alternative narratives of identity that resist categorization, evoking a sense of fugitivity and transformation. Paper, with its ability to bear traces of time and history, plays a central role in his practice, mirroring the impermanence and fragmentation inherent in diasporic experience.
Baeza has exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, with works in major collections such as the Hirshhorn Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Recognized for his innovative approach to materials and representation, Baeza continues to push the boundaries of works on paper, offering profound meditations on transformation, belonging, and the reimagining of self.
