Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez (born 1981) is a Dominican artist based in New York City[1] known for intricate works on paper and canvas, as well as large scale sculpture. Her art explores the Western canon through the elements of non-Western reading.[2]

Firelei Báez
Báez with her mosaic at 163 St-Amsterdam Av
Born1981 (age 40–41)
Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
NationalityAmerican
EducationMiami Jackson High School
The Cooper Union
Hunter College
Known forFuture Generation Art Prize

Báez's work has been exhibited at the New Museum, New York, NY, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY, the Drawing Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY and the Studio Museum, New York, NY. Her work was featured in the United States Biennial Prospect.3 in New Orleans, LA, curated by Franklin Sirmans. She was included in Getty's Pacific Standard Time's LA>LA exhibition, and in the Pinchuk Art Foundation's Future Generation's Art Prize exhibition at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

She has been the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Award in Painting, the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, and the Chiaro Award from the Headlands. In 2015, Perez Art Museum Miami organized Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, with an introduction by the museum's Director, Franklin Sirmans, an essay by Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz, an interview with Naima Keith, and a contribution by the writer Roxane Gay.[3]

Early life and education

Born in Santiago de Los Caballeros to a Dominican mother and a father of Haitian descent, she was raised in Dajabón, a market city on the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti. At the age of 10, she relocated with her family to Miami.

Báez received an M.F.A. from Hunter College and a B.F.A. from Cooper Union and studied at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She had solo exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the DePaul Art Museum.

Career

In fall of 2015, Báez secured exposure with the solo museum shows “Patterns of Resistance” at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and “Bloodlines” at Perez Art Museum Miami.[4]

In February 2016, Báez created a participatory installation with museum patrons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The program was presented in conjunction with the exhibition “The Power of Prints: The Legacy of William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor". The installation itself remained on display through March of that year.[5]

In 2018, she was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to install two wall murals and two mezzanine level murals for the 163 St-Amsterdam Avenue subway station.[6]

Grants, awards, and residencies
  • 2020: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
  • 2020: Recognition, 2019 Public Art Network Year in Review, Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
  • 2019: En Plein Air, Highline Art Commission, New York, NY[7]
  • 2019: Soros Arts Fellowship, Open Society Foundations, New York, NY
  • 2019: United States Artist 2019 Fellow for Visual Arts, Chicago, IL
  • 2018: PES Residency, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
  • 2018: College Art Association Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2018: New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Public Art Commission, 163rd Street Subway Station, New York NY[8]
  • 2018: The Modern Window, The Modern Museum of Art, New York, 2018–19
  • 2017: New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Public Art Commission, 163rd Street Subway Station, New York, NY
  • 2017: Future Generations Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine Rome Prize (shortlist), Rome, Italy
  • 2016: Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA[9][10]
  • 2014: The Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting[11][12]
  • 2013: Fine Arts Work Center, Artist in Residence, Provincetown, MA
  • 2013: Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Sausalito, CA
  • 2013: Donné Paper Mill, Workspace Artist in Residence, New York, NY
  • 2013: Wave Hill, Workspace Artist in Residence, New York, NY
  • 2012: AIM, Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum, NY
  • 2012: Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side PrintShop, New York, NY
  • 2011: Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
  • 2010: Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant[13]
  • 2008: Skowhegan School Of Painting and Sculpture, Full Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME
  • 2007: Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO) Award Recipient, Bronx, NY
  • 2007: Aljira Emerge, A Career Management and Exhibition Program for Emerging Artists
  • 2004: The Jaque and Natasha Gelman Award for Painting, New York, NY

Collections

Selected exhibitions
  • 2020: Firelei Báez, ICA Watershed, East Boston, MA
  • 2019: Immersion into Compounded Time and The Paintings of Firelei Báez, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
  • 2019: A Drexcyen Chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways), James Cohan, New York, NY
  • 2019: Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands [16]
  • 2018: The Modern Window: For Améthyste and Athénaire (Exiled Muses Beyond Jean Luc Nancy’s Canon), Anacondas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2018: Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
  • 2018: 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany [17]
  • 2018: Firelei Báez: To See Beyond, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH[18]
  • 2017: Firelei Báez: To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO[19]
  • 2017: Firelei Báez: Vessels of Genealogies, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL[20]
  • 2017: Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA[21]
  • 2016: Vessels of Genealogies, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL[22]
  • 2016: Unpacking Hispañola, with Scherezade Garcia, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA[23]
  • 2016: Trust Memory Over History, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA[24]
  • 2015: Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, Perez Art Museum of Miami, curated by María Elena Ortiz, Miami, FL[25]
  • 2015: Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT[26]
  • 2013: Appendix to a Memory Table, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012[27]
  • 2013: Not Even Unalterable Limitations, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA[28]
  • 2013: Psycho*Pomp, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, NV

Publications (books)
  • Firelei Báez: Bloodlines |

Publisher: Perez Art Museum; First edition. edition (January 1, 2015) | ISBN 0989854671

Reviews
  • Edwards, Stassa. "Firelei Báez's Stunning PAMM Exhibit, 'Bloodlines,' Dissects Complex Racial Identities." Miami New Times, Dec. 1, 2015.[29]
  • Vogel, Wendy. "Firelei Báez." Art in America, vol. 104, no. 1, Jan. 2016, p. 29.
  • Aranda-Alvarado, R. "Bodies of Color: Images of Women in the Works of Firelei Báez and Rachelle Mozman." Small Axe, vol. 21 no. 1, 2017, pp. 58–70.

References
  1. "Firelei Báez: Bloodlines". www.pamm.org. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
  2. Sirmans, Franklin; Báez, Firelei (2017). "Artwork: Firelei Báez". Art Journal. 76 (3/4): 78–79. doi:10.1080/00043249.2017.1418490. ISSN 0004-3249. JSTOR 45142673. S2CID 192234205.
  3. Wendi Norris, Gallery. "Firelei Báez: Biography - Gallery Wendi Norris". gallerywendinorris.com.
  4. Lesser, Casey (10 June 2016). "These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Figurative Painting Forward". Artsy.
  5. Barone, Joshua (2016-02-18). "Spare Times for Feb. 19-25". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
  6. "MTA - Arts & Design | NYCT Permanent Art". web.mta.info. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  7. "En Plein Air". The High Line.
  8. "MTA - Arts & Design | NYCT Permanent Art". web.mta.info.
  9. "Firelei Báez - Headlands Center for the Arts". Headlands Center for the Arts.
  10. "Headlands Center for the Arts Announces Recipient of 2016 Chiaro Award". ArtfixDaily. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  11. "Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance - UMOCA". www.utahmoca.org.
  12. "Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance | UMOCA". www.utahmoca.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  13. Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Joan Mitchell Foundation » Artist Programs » Artist Grants". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  14. "ARTrek: BNY Mellon Collection". www.pamm.org.
  15. "Firelei Baez - Fundation Sindika Dokolo". Fundation Sindika Dokolo.
  16. "Firelei Báez, new work".
  17. "We don't need another hero".
  18. "Exhibition Season Preview 2017-18". www.contemporaryartscenter.org.
  19. "Firelei Báez - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art". Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
  20. "Firelei Báez: Vessels of Genealogies | DePaul Art Museum". DPAM // DePaul Art Museum.
  21. "Firelei Báez: Bloodlines - The Andy Warhol Museum". The Andy Warhol Museum.
  22. University, Eastern Illinois. "Eastern Illinois University :: Tarble Arts Center - Archived Exhibitions". www.eiu.edu.
  23. "Unpacking Hispañola: Scherezade Garcia and Firelei Báez". Taller Puertorriqueño. 30 September 2015.
  24. "Firelei Báez: Trust Memory Over History | Gallery Wendi Norris". Gallery Wendi Norris. 12 March 2016.
  25. "Firelei Báez: Bloodlines". Pérez Art Museum Miami.
  26. "Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance | UMOCA". www.utahmoca.org.
  27. "Appendix to a Memory Table - Richard Heller Gallery". Juxtapoz Magazine.
  28. "Firelei Báez Title: Not Even Unalterable Limitations, 2012 presented by Richard Heller Gallery". www.richardhellergallery.com.
  29. Edwards, Stassa. "Firelei Báez's Stunning PAMM Exhibit, "Bloodlines," Dissects Complex Racial Identities". Miami New Times.
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