Catherine Haggarty

Catherine Haggarty, b. 1984, is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Haggarty is the Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Canopy Program which is a one year mentorship program within the NYC Crit Club which Haggarty co-founded with artist Hilary Doyle in 2017. In addition, Haggarty is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.

Currently, Haggarty is the Spring 2024 Teiger Mentor for the Arts at Cornell AAP MFA and recently was a Visiting Artist at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (Denver, CO) on the occasion of her Exhibition featuring ten years of work at The Philip J. Steele Gallery.

Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Pep Talks for Artists, Sound and Vision Podcast and The Observer.

Catherine has been a visiting artist & critic at Cornell MFA (2024), Rocky Mountain College of Art (2024), Western Connecticut MFA (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers MFA (2022), U. Albany MFA (2022), MICA (2022), UCONN MFA (2022 + 2023), RISD BFA (2022), Pratt BFA (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University MFA (2021), SUNY Purchase MFA (2020), Hunter MFA (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College MFA (2019) and in 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University.

Solo & Two Person exhibitions include: Untitled Miami, Lorin Gallery, LA, Geary Contemporary (NYC), Massey Klein Gallery (NYC), This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (PA), and Look and Listen in Marseille France. Select group exhibitions include: The PIT (LA), Badr El Jundi (Madrid, Spain), Mindy Solomon (Miami, FL), Andrew Rafcaz (Chicago, IL), Hesse Flatow (NYC), Mrs (Maspeth, NY) and McBride Contemporary in Montreal, Canada.

Yevgeniya Baras

Yevgeniya Baras is an artist working in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns, NY; The Landing, LA; Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit; Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY; Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Mother Gallery, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston; Sperone Westwater Gallery, NY; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; the Pit, LA; Soco, NC as well as internationally including NBB Gallery, Berlin; Julien Cadet Gallery, Paris; Station Gallery, Sydney.

She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters in NY and LA.

Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Yevgeniya was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Yevgeniya 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.

Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY (2010-2018).

Yevgeniya holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago