Firelei Báez
Workspace: Current Session
Firelei Báez was born in the Dominican Republic to Dominican and Haitian parents and lives and works in New York. Báez received her BFA from Cooper Union and her MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited in various national and international institutions, including the New Jersey City Museum, El Museo, The Cortona Archeological Museum in Cortona, Italy, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, and in the Bronx Artist Biennial, BX1. She participated in Aljira Center for Contemporary Art's Emerge Program and was a recent resident artist in The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has received many prestigious awards including the 2010 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award, the Jaque and Natasha Gelman Award in Painting, and the Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award (BRIO), among others. Her work, featured in El Museo's Sixth Biennial The [S] Files/The Street Files, has been reviewed in The New York Times by Holland Cotter.
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Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to The Fan Test for the Month of December, 2010
Gouache ink and graphite on paper
31 individual self-portrait silhouettes, each 10 x 13 inches, to be configured in a grid resembling a 31 day calendar.
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Untitled (Questions for Doig in Trinidad), 2010
Approximately 120 x 46 inches
Mixed media on drafting film
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Untitled (From the Geographic Delay Series) and detail, 2010
36 x 84 inches
Gouache and Ink on paper
