Artist

Firelei Báez

b. 1981, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic · Dominican-American

Hunter College
Cooper Union

Firelei Báez creates dense paintings and drawings around migration, colonial history, mythology and the politics of the body. She often paints hybrid figures over historical maps, architectural plans and documents tied to empire and trade.

Painting; drawing; installation

Artist Films

Firelei Báez: An Open Horizon (or) the Stillness of a Wound | Art21 "New York Close Up"
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Major Works

2015To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond)
2016Untitled (Anacaona)
2011Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to the Fan Test
2015Ciguapa Pantera
2018How to Slip Out of Your Body Quietly
2020A Drexcyen Chronocommons
2022the vast ocean of all possibilities
2015Bloodlines
2018Trust Memory Over History
2021the soft afternoon air as you hold us all in a single death

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