Anima

Print Center New York is pleased to present our spring 2026 exhibition Felipe Baeza: Anima, the first monographic institutional exhibition in New York surveying the artist's practice. Bringing together over 40 works demonstrating the range of Baeza's material experimentation, Anima is the first exhibition to deeply explore the artist's grounding in printmaking and the development of his visual language and studio process. Baeza (b. 1987, Celaya, Mexico; lives and works in Brooklyn) is known for his figurative work that combines elements of printmaking, collage, painting, and other techniques. In these multilayered images, Baeza depicts bodies in various states of fragmentation, hybridity, and legibility—which the artist has called "fugitive" and "unruly"—to explore racialized, queer, and migrant subjects who transgress the limitations of identity. Baeza's work combines diverse media (including pigments, tissue paper, archival images, gesso, and varnish) as well as intensive aesthetic processes (including drawing, cutting, surface abrasion and absorption), manipulating materials on paper and canvas at both intimate and large scales. The exhibition includes work from important series like Gente del Occidente de Mexico (2017/2019), in which the artist combines cut images of Mesoamerican ceramics with contemporary erotica; Los Otros (2017–ongoing), consisting of both printed images and collagraph matrices depicting men in various states of pleasure and connection; Unruly Forms (2022–23), where various layers of inked paper are cut and assembled on panel, reanimating the spirits of Mesoamerican vessels and artifacts; and Sonder (2024–ongoing), a newer body of work incorporating the eyes of artists and intellectuals that inspire Baeza, including James Baldwin, José Esteban Muñoz, and Sylvia Rivera, among others. The exhibition's title refers to the soul of a person or being, and is a nod to the earliest work included in the exhibition. One of Baeza's first explorations of cut paper and collage, Anima (2011) foreshadows his material experimentation of later years as well as his conceptual exploration of the degendered and reassembled human body. Spanning 15 years and including examples from Baeza's best-known bodies of work alongside less-seen objects, Anima underscores the centrality of printmaking to Baeza's process. While pursuing his MFA in painting and printmaking at Yale University, Baeza developed a method for making prints without a press: he laid pigment and water onto a plastic sheet on the floor of his studio and then pressed sheets of paper into it, creating skin-like monoprints. He would come to use these sheets of paper as elements with which to construct his images. Around the same time, he began making small collaged, sculptural collograph plates that he could ink and press to create textured, barely-legible prints. The printmaking process—inherently one of deferral, translation, and fugitivity—has continued to be a generative space for experimentation across Baeza's work, and since 2023 he has begun collaborating with master printers across the US. A selection of works from publishers including Du-Good Press (Brooklyn, NY), Mullowney Printing Company (Portland, OR), Anderson Ranch Editions (Snowmass, CO), Keigo Prints (Ridgewood, NY), and Serio Press (Austin, TX), show how Baeza is translating his processes and images back into press-based editions. Felipe Baeza (b. 1987, Mexico) received a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2009) and an MFA from Yale University (2018). He has presented solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and New York. His work was included in The Milk of Dreams, the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2022); Prospect.5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, New Orleans, LA (2021); and Desert X, Palm Springs, CA (2021), among other group exhibitions across Europe, South America, and Asia. Baeza has received awards, commissions, and residencies from Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Getty Research Institute, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Public Art Fund, NXTHVN, Vilcek Foundation, and the US Latinx Art Forum, among others. His work is held in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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