Visual & Studio Arts Lecture Series: Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte

Yevgeniya Baras is an artist living and working in NY. She has exhibited her work in several New York City galleries and internationally. She is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in NY and the Landing Gallery in LA.

Yevgeniya is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, the Pollock-Krasner grant and 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 the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, and Art in America.

In 2022/2023 Yevgeniya will open her fourth solo show in New York, her third in LA, and an exhibition at Station gallery in Melbourne, Australia.

Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY  (2010-2018). Yevgeniya  has curated and co-curated over twenty exhibitions at Regina Rex and other galleries in NY, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

Yevgeniya has a BA and MS from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).

Yevgeniya teaches at RISD and Sarah Lawrence College.

Pete Schulte is an artist based in Birmingham, Alabama. He is Associate Professor of Art at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. In 2013 Schulte co-founded The Fuel and Lumber Company curatorial initiative with Amy Pleasant. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at McKenzie Fine Art in New York City and at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, where he was artist-in-residence in 2019. In March 2022 Schulte’s work will be presented in a two-person exhibition with Yevgeniya Baras at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte's work can be seen March 25-June 5 at The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center.

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Lt: Pete Schulte

Rt: Yevgeniya Baras