Trisha Baga
Galaxy Prints
Trisha Baga's Galaxy Prints is a series of five unique works.
A self-professed “hoarder of images,” Trisha Baga is compelled by what they call “the stuff that fills the gaps.” Their work gleans the margins of the digital and the logic of online browsing to build dreamy, layered narratives. The often disparate elements in Baga’s works clump together like a mutually imbricated life form held together by a sticky, viscous goo.
This stickiness plays a central role in a new series of unique works on paper that draw on deep-space imagery, layering starscapes with views of the artist’s studio or objects from their personal sphere. Clumps of brightly coloured chewing gum sit on the surface of the images, conjuring a phantom body.
Stickiness pervades the practice more broadly. In various currents of philosophical thought, it functions as a liminal state, a nexus of relations between bodies, objects, and signs. What “sticks” to an object reveals its history: where it has been, what it has touched, what traces it has accumulated. In Baga’s practice — which often complicates high-tech imaging systems and the visual languages of scientific or institutional knowledge production — the libidinal, abject qualities of stickiness push back against the purported liquidity of the digital realm.
Trisha Baga (b. 1985, Venice, FL) lives and works in New York. Baga will be part of Here, To You, Now, the 2026 Converge 45 Triennial in Portland and received the USA Fellowship Award in 2024. Baga’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; CCC, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard College, Cambridge; Zabludowicz Collection, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Their immersive large-scale painting installation BODY CLOCK was exhibited at Art Basel Unlimited in 2021. That same year, their video installation HOPEilluminated the façade of Kassel’s Fridericianum on the United States election day. Baga's work was included in the exhibition HOPE at Museion, Bolzano curated by Bart van der Heide and Leonie Radine and The Irreplaceable Human at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek. They have also participated in group exhibitions at Tanoto Art Foundation, Singapore; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; PS1, New York; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich; and Julia Stoschek Foundation at ZKM, Düsseldorf, among many other venues.
Trisha Baga is part of a number of public collections including Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum, New York; among others.