Bay Backner

Bay Backner invited to be the guest metaverse curator for NFT Show Europe 2022

Bay is delighted to announce that she has been invited to be the guest metaverse curator for NFT Show Europe 2022. In this role, Bay will work alongside artist Pablo Alpe of Vitamin Studio to program the agenda and art exhibitions for the two day event.…

Selected for the ‘MHOUSE History of Crypto Art’ exhibition at ETH Barcelona 2022

MHOUSE has selected Bay as one of their three artists to be exhibited in the ‘History of Crypto Art’ exhibition at ETH Barcelona, 6-8 July 2022. ETH Barcelona is a major industry event which is bringing together 2000 artists, makers and developers to ‘explore how blockchain…

Bay selected for the Women’s Museum Genesis Collection for #1of1 Tezos July 2022

Bay is delighted that her work ‘Rimas de Bécquer‘ has been selected for the Museum of Contemporary Women’s Art first Tezos collection, ‘Genesis’. The Museum of Contemporary Women’s Art (known as Women’s Museum on twitter) was founded by artist and activist Bárbara Bezini. The museum’s mission…

Curator Jon Sharples Selects Bay Backner for NFT Liverpool

Bay Backner is delighted to have been selected for NFT Liverpool by curator Jon Sharples. Her work ‘Els Amàvem’ will be shown during the week of 14 – 19 June.

SHOWCASE // Experience Art in the Metaverse – new exhibition and events (2022)

In May 2022, Bay produced a new metaverse exhibition and series of events for NFT platform Orica. Called SHOWCASE, featuring NFTs by 21 major digital artists…

REFUGE metaverse exhibition guide released as BNB NFT (2022)

Following the success of REFUGE, the metaverse art event for Ukraine, Bay worked to release the pdf guide of the show as a charity NFT. The NFT was dropped for just one month on the BNB chain via the Orica NFT platform. Using the smart contract…

Bay Backner exhibits in Megacube 2 as a Premium Artist (2022)

Bay’s work was exhibited today as part of the world’s largest collaborative P2E (‘play to earn’) metaverse game, MegaCube 2. This once-yearly multiplayer experience takes the form of a gigantic cube in the Decentraland metaverse

Bay Backner to Speak at Financial Times Summit

Bay Backner has been invited by The Financial Times Live to speak at this month’s Crypto & Digital Asset Summit. Bay will contribute to the panel discussion “Non-fungible tokens – balancing risk and reward” chaired by Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Banking and Fintech Correspondent for the Financial Times…

REFUGE metaverse exhibition raises $28000 for Ukraine (2022)

In March 2022, Bay produced REFUGE, the metaverse art event for Ukraine in Orica Gallery. The show raised $28000 in the BNB cryptocurrency, which was transparently donated via blockchain philanthropy platform The Giving Block’s Ukraine Emergency Response Fund. Bay’s first step in producing the charity show…

Bay Backner Interviewed By Dublin Radio on creativity & NFTs

Bay was invited onto the Dublin City FM show ‘Making a Difference‘ to talk creativity, NFTs and how artists are using technology to fundraise for Ukraine. Many thanks to presenter Jillian Godsill for the invitation and interview. For those of you interested in supporting Ukraine artists,…

Bay Backner Curates Orica’s Launch NFT Exhibition for Uganda NGO

Bay Backner has joined Orica, the ethical NFT platform as Head of Growth & Curation. Her first role was to curate the launch exhibition ‘A Fairer World’, sales from which were used to fund a school in the Ssese Islands, Uganda. Bay selected Mellowmann, an emerging…

Bay Backner Launches Thursday Society with Founder Members

Today Bay, together with eight founder-members, launched Thursday Society – the first open, inclusive and global artists’ collective.

Photos from the Opening Night of Dirty Pink Art Exhibition, Russafa

‘Dirty Pink’, a new exhibition curated by Tina McCallan, opened last night in Russafa. Bay is excited to be showing her paintings ‘Allegory’ and ‘Confession’ alongside work by twelve international women artists. The exhibition will be open at Sporting Club Russafa every weekend until 31st July…

Bay Backner Exhibiting In ‘Dirty Pink’, Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia

Bay is delighted to be exhibiting in this summer’s collective show ‘Dirty Pink’ in Sporting Club Russafa, Valencia. The exhibition, curated by Tina McCallan is an exhibition of thirteen international women artists responding to the controversial colour pink. The exhibition opens on Friday 2nd July at…

Bay Backner to read her new book on creativity at Jan Royce Gallery

Join Bay for her book reading and discussion on creativity, this Sunday 30th May. You’ll hear Bay read from her new book The 21 Day Creative, a practical guide to creative fulfillment for busy lives.

Bay Backner interviewed by The Valencian on her current exhibition at Jan Royce Gallery

In The Valencian newspaper this week, critic and artist Tina McCallan interviews Bay about her artistic influences and her innovative techniques.

Bay Backner interviewed by Valencia TV News about her Art Walk initiative

Valencia’s A Punt TV News report about Art Walk, interviewing Bay about the aims of the initiative.

Bay Backner brings together eleven independent galleries for Art Walk Valencia

Bay created Art Walk Valencia as a new initiative to support independent art spaces in her city. Bay was interviewed by both Valencia TV news and radio, with some Art Walk spaces welcoming more than 300 visitors.

Bay Backner to show embroidered paintings about solitude, isolation and hope at Jan Royce Gallery

For new exhibition ¡Abril Despierta! Bay has made five figurative artworks in oil paint and hand-embroidery. These explore how identities are being shaped by this year’s pandemic, specifically how its experiences affect our subconscious minds.

Bay Backner in reopening exhibition at Blacks London

Blacks London set to reopen on 17th May. The legendary private members’ club will show two paintings by Bay Backner, curated in a collective exhibition by Runway Gallery.

‘Blancanieves’ embroidered oil painting in art exhibition at Galeria Cuatro, Valencia

Bay is now showing Blancanieves, her new large-scale embroidered oil painting at Galeria Cuatro, Valencia. The work is part of collective exhibition Sexto Sentido, on show at the gallery until 3rd March 2021.

Galeria Cuatro exhibition “Sexto Sentido” to show new large-scale embroidered painting by Bay Backner

Bay is showing new work in the latest exhibition at Valencia gallery Galería Cuatro. The show, Sexto Sentido, will open this Thursday, 29th January. Bay will debut her latest large-scale embroidered painting Blancanieves (Snow White), a 114×146 canvas. Galería Cuatro’s director Miguel Castello was yesterday interviewed by newspaper Las Provincias….

Showing New Surrealist Paintings in Collaboration with Valencia’s The RW Project

Bay is currently showing new paintings in The RW Project space in Valencia’s arts district, Russafa. The project, titled Eve is a collaboration between Bay, RW founder and writer Kristin Gracie, and filmmaker Steve Kempen. Bay is showing six new large-scale surrealist oil paintings, including Eve…

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New Mixed-Media Artworks on Paper to be available at Runway Gallery, London

Bay has been invited to curate nine new mixed-media artworks for a Runway Gallery special event this month. The works will be available in the gallery’s “From the studio” sale, an online showcase of experimental sketches, sketchbook work and artists’ proofs. Bay selected the nine works…

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“Eve” solo show to open at Russafa’s RW Project Space

Bay will open a solo show with The RW Project in Russafa on New Years Eve, 31st December 2020. The exhibition “Eve” is a collaboration with the curator-director of the RW Project, Kristin Gracie. Exploring ideas of transformation, the show was inspired by Paul Roussel’s 1908…

New Flower Women Series to be exhibited virtually with Kunstmatrix

Bay is to exhibit her new series of large-scale paintings, Flower Women, virtually with Kunstmatrix. The online show will be available to view throughout December 2020, with a 3D guided tour of the six new works. Kunstmatrix is a innovative Berlin-based gallery platform specialising in online, virtual exhibitions.

Paintings Now Exhibiting in Blacks Club, Soho London

Two of Bay’s paintings, Delta (2019) and Shard (2019) are currently exhibiting in Blacks Club in London’s Soho. They are part of the Autumn group exhibition curated by Runway Gallery. Photo by Blacks Club with photographer Flavia Fraser-Cannon.

Vision painting by artist Bay Backner, oil paint and embroidery

New Series of Paintings to be Represented in the UK by London’s Runway Gallery

Bay’s new series of paintings will be exclusively represented in the UK by London’s Runway Gallery. The gallery is regularly featured by national press and organises private viewings in the heart of Soho. Runway collaborators include London Fashion Week fringe and private members club and gallery,…

Curation of Masks on Miércoles, covid-responsible art events in Valencia

Bay curated a series of weekly covid-responsible art events throughout October 2020. In collaboration with art collective Colonia Roma, the events included artist talks, art workshops and discussions. Highlights were artist Emma Shapiro’s discussion on social media censorship and Tina McCallan’s workshop on shamanistic journeys into the subconscious.

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Curator of Group Show: The Everyday Masks Project with Colonia Roma, Valencia

Curation of show ‘The Everyday Masks Project’ with photographer Alex Baker and arts collective Colonia Roma. Bay designed the exhibition to work safely within Valencia’s covid restrictions. In lieu of a traditional inauguration, ten artists opened the show with a photoshoot of the original masked artworks.