2024-2025 virtual Cohort
Fall 2024 | Winter 2025 | Spring 2025
Tuesdays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Yevgeniya Baras
Artist
Based in New York
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2024-2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Yevgeniya Baras, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet via Zoom for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).
Mai Alremeithi
Jennifer Arzt
Maggie Cardelús
Myra Clark
Sarah Fradkin
Brittany Gilbert
Karine Guyon
Sarah Hull
Maria Lindenfeldar
JBH Scholarship Recipient
john taylor wagner
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Yevgeniya Baras' Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Hilary Harnischfeger
Guest Artist
Holly Coulis
Guest Artist
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Dasha Shishkin
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Melissa Brown
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Elizabeth Denny
Guest Curator
Seth Curcio
Guest Curator
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Yevgeniya Baras
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist working in New York. She has exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY); White Columns (New York, NY); The Landing Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); SOCO Gallery (Charlotte, NC); Nicelle Beauchene (New York, NY); Reyes Finn Gallery (Detroit, MI); Gavin Brown Enterprise (New York, NY); Inman Gallery (Houston, TX); Mother Gallery (New York, NY); Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York, NY); Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, NY); The Pit (Los Angeles, CA); as well as internationally including NBB Gallery (Berlin, Germany); Julien Cadet Gallery (Paris, France); Station Gallery (Sydney, Australia). 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).
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).
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
Even In June
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
June 5-7, 2025
Even in Juneis a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 9 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Yevgeniya Baras, as part of the 2024-2025 Canopy Program. Even in June’s warmth – when the world leans toward fullness, balance, and bloom – the works in this exhibition remind us that vitality often arises through instability and tender chaos. Even in June is born not of prescription, but of process.
