Winner of the inaugural BAU Gallery 2025 Solo Competition, Margaret Inga Urías’ installation of drawings and engraved glass traces the unfolding of existence across time—from primordial dust and cosmic explosions to Earth’s geological formations and the evolution of life. Based on her careful research in geology and astronomy, and executed in fine detail, Urías’ work charts the interconnectedness of cosmologies both grand and personal. The artist invites viewers to consider their place within this deep continuum asking, “How are we, brief travelers, bound to both the ancient and the infinite?”

About the artist

Margaret Inga Urías has exhibited in venues across New York, including the DVAA Gallery, Equity Gallery, and Bronx Museum of the Arts, as well as at the Boston Center for the Arts and the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Her public-art commissions include murals in Brooklyn and New York City, and she is in residence this year at Yellow Studio. Urías is the recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2013) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2011). She holds an MS from Pratt Institute and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.