Genesis Báez

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Genesis Báez (b. Massachusetts, US) is an artist and professor whose photographic practice explores how diaspora and migration shape relationships to place, memory, and community. Centering Puerto Rican diasporic life through a feminist lens, her works weave fictional narratives from lived and imagined experiences. Working across analog and digital photography, Báez combines performance, observation, and experimental techniques to trace the invisible threads connecting people and place across time. Spanning prints, books, zines, public installations, and short videos, her works highlight photography’s material qualities– its edges, stillness, and main ingredient, light– to reveal the interconnections that underpin our lives.

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Genesis Báez is an artist based between Brooklyn, NY and Western Massachusetts. Raised in Massachusetts and Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, Báez received an MFA from the Yale School of Art (2019), a BFA with honors from MassArt (2012), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019).

Baez’s works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, amongst others. Her work has exhibited internationally, including the Whitney Museum and Kilometro in San Juan, PR. Her monograph Blue Sun was published with Capricious in 2025, and she is an Assistant Professor of Art at Amherst College.