UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Morgan Levy in Conversation with Genesis Báez and Carly Ries
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UPCOMING CONVERSATION
Morgan Levy in Conversation with Genesis Báez and Carly Ries
Please join BAXTER ST and 2025 Mid-Career Artist Initiative Recipient Morgan Levy and photographers Genesis Báez and Carly Ries on Friday December 5th at 6 PM at 154 Ludlow Street for a public conversation on the occasion of Levy’s solo exhibition, Spark of a Nail, at BAXTER ST.
Morgan Levy is a photo-based artist and educator originally from Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2020 and her BFA from NYU in 2007. She is a recipient of both the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography and BAXTER ST’s Mid-Career Artist Initiative. She received a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant as well as a Puffin Foundation Grant in 2024. In 2023 she was an Aperture Portfolio Prize finalist and a resident in UnionDocs’ R&D lab. She participated in a fellowship program at the ICA, London in 2019 and was the 2015 recipient of the Lucie Foundation’s Emerging Photographer Scholarship. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at Large Glass gallery in London, Peckham24, the Vermont Center for Photography, Gallery Kannski in Reykjavik, the Throughline Collective in Houston, the Print Center in Philadelphia, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Her editorial work has been featured in US and international publications and was included in American Photography 31. She is currently a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design and resides in Brooklyn, NY where she and her partner Håkan are caring for a cat and small child.
Genesis Báez is an artist working with photography, currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Her works have recently been exhibited at the Chazen Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and Dashwood Projects. Her first monograph, Blue Sun, was published this year with Capricious. She currently teaches at Princeton University.
Carly Ries is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Their photobooks are held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, Rijksmuseum, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Ries is the curator of The Peter J. Cohen Collection, a vast archive of 20th-century vernacular photography.