Plastic artist who earned a plastic-arts MFA at Yale, as well as a BA at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. In addition to solo shows at spaces such as Public Art Fund in New York, from 2023; and that city’s Fortnight Institute, in 2019 and 2022; The Mistake Room in Los Angeles in 2020 and at London’s Maureen Paley in both 2018 and 2021, his work has exhibited at the 2022 59th Venice Biennial, Milk of Dreams; as well as at Prospect. 5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, in New Orleans in 2021;    

Desert X, from the same year, in Palm Springs; among other collective exhibitions. Baeza has received recognitions such as the 2023 Latinx Artist Fellowship from Art Forum magazine; a Getty Research Institute Fellowship from 2022; 2019’s NXTHVN Studio Fellowship; a 2018 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant, among several others. His work has been integrated into collections at the Columbus Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Moderna Museet, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the San José Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Athenium Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

Adiós a Calibán, 2017-22
Series of 17 collages on paper
1. Chaac Figure from Mayapan, 2022
2. Xochipilli, 2022
3. Acrobat from Tlatilco, Mexico, 2022
4. Young Girl from Veracruz, 2021
5. Mictlantecuhtli, 2020
6. Chacmool, 2017
7. Hunchback Aztec, 2017
8. Old Man Aztec, 2017
9. Huastec Adolescent from Jalpan, 2022
10. Untitled, 2017
11. Anthropomorphic Female Figure, 2022
12. Teotihuacan Reclining Figure, 2017
13. Macehual, 2020
14. Figure from Toluca, 2021
15. Hunchback Figure from Jalisco, 2022
16. Xipe Totec from Xalapán, 2022
17. God of Fire, 2021

The Pounding of Steel Chopping Away at Your Flesh, 2022
Ink, acrylic, varnish, watercolor, and cut paper on panel

Unruly Forms II, 2023
Ink, acrylic, graphite, varnish and cut paper on panel

Our Shadows Merging, 2023
Ink, acrylic, graphite, varnish and cut paper on panel
Lance Renner Collection

Beyond the Vessel, 2024
Monoprint in watercolor, photolithography, silkscreen, stencil, and collage

Acoge al fantasma, 2024
Photogravure and hardpaste etching with chine collé and collage

Desviación, 2023
Screen printing in 6 colors and collage on Coventry Rag paper

Sentir un entonces y un allí, 2024
Ink, acrylic, cut paper, glitter, and fibers on paper

Baeza’s practice centers on the notion of fugitive bodies in constant evolution, from a queer perspective and one that challenges the fixed notion of identity terms. The artist also explores the liminality and sense of uprooting that migrants experience. Baeza’s images depict hybrid bodies that inhabit landscapes and merge with undefined spaces. This set of works combines various graphic, pictorial, and collage techniques, whose intersections inscribe the artist’s ideas about never-fixed identities in materials. Baeza views working with materials as a form of emancipation.