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).
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
Stay tuned for details on this
cohort's exhibition at The Canopy Studio in Chelsea, NYC! In the meantime, view
past Crit Club and Canopy exhibitions.
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 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
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
