Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1981) nyɛla Dominican Republic, New York City nuchee ni baŋda.

 Grants, awards, and residencies 

 Jacques and Natasha Gelman Award in Painting
 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award (2010)
 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2015)
 Chiaro Award from the Headlands (2016)
 Future Generation Art Prize (2017).
 College Art Association Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work (2018) 
 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2019) 
 Soros Art Fellowship (2019)
 The Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts (2020)
 American Academy in Rome Philip Guston Rome Prize for visual arts (2021)

 Gallery representation
Báez nyɛla ŋun daa zani n-ti Hauser & Wirth tum yuuni 2023. O nyɛla ŋun daa tumdi ni James Cohan Gallery mini Kavi Gupta.Alex Greenberger (18 September 2023), Firelei Báez Joins Hauser & Wirth Ahead of Surveys in Europe and the US ARTnews.

 Notable works in public collections
Amidst the future and present there is a memory table (2013), Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
To see beyond it and to access the places that we know outside its walls (2015), San Jose Museum of Art, California
Sans-Souci (This threshold between a dematerialized and a historicized body) (2015), Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
Of Love Possessed (lessons on alterity for G.D. and F.G at a local BSS) (2016), Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta
To Access the Places that Lie Beyond (2017), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Elegant gathering in a secluded garden (or the many bridges we crossed) (2018), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Those who would douse it (it does not disturb me to accept that there are places where my identity is obscure to me, and the fact that it amazes you does not mean I relinquish it) (2018), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
An Open Horizon (or the stillness of a wound) (2019), Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Orlando, Florida
Tignon for Ayda Weddo (or that which a center can not hold) (2019), Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
the trace, whether we are attending to it or not (a space for each other's breathing) (2019), New Orleans Museum of Art
Untitled (Central Power Station) (2019), Dallas Museum of Art
Untitled (Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Navtic) (2021), Whitney Museum of American Art
Olamina (How do we learn to love each other while we are embattled) (2022), Metropolitan Museum of Art

 Selected publications 
Perez Art Museum. Firelei Báez : Bloodlines. Miami, Florida: Perez Art Museum, 2015. ISBN 978-0-989854-67-2.
"Bodies of Color: Images of Women in the Works of Firelei Báez and Rachelle Mozman." Aranda-Alvarado, Rocío. Small Axe : a Journal of Criticism 21, no. 1 (2017): 57–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844078.
"Flora and Fauna Otherwise: Black and Brown Aesthetics of Relation in Firelei Báez and Wangechi Mutu." Alvarado, Leticia. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1, no. 3 (2019): 8–24. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.130003.
 Firelei Báez: to breathe full and free. Firelei Báez, David Norr, Carla Acevedo-Yates, Mark Godfrey, Legacy Russell, Thelma Golden, Eva Respini. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2022

 Kundivihira 

 External links 
 Studio Visit: Firelei Báez, MoMA Magazine
 Firelei Báez, PAMM

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Category:Dominican Republic women artists
Category:Dominican Republic women sculptors
Category:Dominican Republic sculptors
Category:Dominican Republic women painters
Category:1981 births
Category:Hunter College alumni
Category:Cooper Union alumni
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:Hispanic and Latino American artists
Category:Mosaic artists
Category:21st-century American sculptors
Category:Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni
Category:Dominican Republic emigrants to the United States
Category:Artists from Miami
Category:People from Santiago de los Caballeros
Category:Miami Jackson Senior High School alumni
Category:Artists from New York City
Category:People from Dajabón