About

Chris Baily is a painter and time-based artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

His work explores the emotions that make up our inner monologue and how they project into the world around us. Primarily figurative, his paintings and video works blend surrealism and abstraction with representational landscapes and color fields. Recurring motifs—a dark-haired woman, a young boy, migrating birds, clouds, and ocean waves—serve as symbolic representations of emotion, time, and the tension between memory and expectation.

While studying Fine Arts at Cornell University, Baily began experimenting with digital projection to create experiences that blur the line between painting, still image, and video. Over time, this practice evolved into a body of work that merges traditional media with moving imagery, creating meditative pieces that hover between presence and motion.

Baily received a BFA in Painting from Cornell University and was recognized with a YoungArts Award, a Presidential Scholar Award, a Maryland Distinguished Scholar Award, and the David R. Beane Award for Fine Arts.

Selected Exhibitions

2025 Solo Exhibition, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
2024 Group Exhibition — “One of One Artcards”, Framebridge Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2022 The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, New York, NY
2019 Group Show, 55 Water Street, New York, NY
2018 Group Show, Boathouse, New York, NY
    Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
    Solo Exhibition — “Collective Dreams: Deconstructing Purpose”, New York, NY
2017 Solo Exhibition — Penn Place Gallery, Garrett Park, MD
2015 Group Exhibition — “Lucid Moments”, Parenthesis Art Space, Bushwick, NY
2014 Group Exhibition, Presented by Christine Minas Fine Art, Untitled Space, New York, NY
    Solo Exhibition — “The Sleep of Uncertainty”, Untitled Space, New York, NY
2013 Solo Exhibition — “Tornadoes & Tidal Waves”, Tiny Fork, New York, NY

Residencies

2022 School of Visual Arts (Fall Residency Project), New York, NY

Awards & Honors

YoungArts Award
Presidential Scholar Award
Maryland Distinguished Scholar Award
David R. Beane Award for Fine Arts

Film & Television Features

2025 Daredevil: Born Again — painting featured in Season 2 (Marvel / Disney+) (forthcoming)
2025 Nobody Wants This — painting featured in Season 2 (Netflix) (forthcoming)
2025 Friends and Neighbors — painting featured in Season 2 (Apple TV+) (forthcoming)

Education

2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting Concentration, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY