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.

## 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. .
*"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