BIOGRAFIA
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| FIRELEI BÁEZ | |
| 1981 | Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic |
| Lives and works in New York, NY | |
| Education | |
| 2010 | M.F.A., Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Skowhegan School Of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 2004 | B.F.A., the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2018 | Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| Firelei Báez Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH | |
| 2017 | Firelei Báez: To See Beyond Its Walls, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
| Vessels of Genealogies, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL | |
| Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA | |
| 2016 | Vessels of Genealogies, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL |
| Unpacking Hispanola, with Scherezade Garcia, Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Trust Memory Over History, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2015 | Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, Perez Art Museum of Miami, curated by María Elena Ortiz, Miami, FL |
| Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| 2013 | Appendix to a Memory Table, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2012 | Not Even Unalterable Limitations, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| Psycho*Pomp, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, NV | |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2018 | 10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, DE |
| 2017 | A Space for Thought, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT |
| Engender, curated by Joshua Friedman, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Pacific Standard Time: LA>LA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA | |
| Future Generations Art Prize, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT | |
| Love Thy Neighbor, Firelei Báez, Ignacio González-Lang, Irvin Morazan, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY | |
| Future Generations Art Prize, PinchukArtCenter, Kiev, UA | |
| 2016 | American Histories, Pi Artworks, London, GB |
| Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA | |
| For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Black Pulp!, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT | |
| Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY | |
| Diaspora Calling, Kings Theater, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2015 | Between History and the Body, The 8th floor, New York, NY |
| A Curious Blindness, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY | |
| Concealed: Selections from The Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| 2014 | Prospect.3, Notes for Now, New Orleans Biennial, Curated by Franklin Sirmans, New Orleans, LA |
| Small, drawing exhibition curated by Claire Gilman, The Drawing Center, New York, NY | |
| Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, curated by Elvis Fuentes at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL | |
| I Scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New School, New York, NY | |
| Firelei Báez: Fine Arts Work Center Solo Exhibition, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA | |
| Context and Counteractions: Selected Works by the 2013-2014, FAWC Visual Art Fellows, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL | |
| 2013 | Fore, Studio Museum’s upcoming fourth emerging artist exhibition, curated by Naima Keith, Thomas Lax and Lauren Hayes, New York, NY |
| More Than A Likeness, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX | |
| The Bronx Museum AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY | |
| Crossing the Line: Contemporary Drawing and Artistic Process, Mixed Greens, New York, NY | |
| Emo Show, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY | |
| Drawn to Nature, curated by Jennifer McGregor at Wave Hill, New York, NY | |
| Corporeal Contours: Works by Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, curated by Jillian, Narkornthap at Community Folk Art Center, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | Harbingers & Psychopomps, The IMC Lab + Gallery, New York, NY |
| Contemporary Watercolor, curated by Veronica Roberts, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY | |
| ACIREMA, Curated by Cesar Garcia at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Body Snatchers, Curated by Raul Zamudio, White Box, New York, NY | |
| Cultural Transference, Curated by Sara Reissman, EFA Project Space, New York, NY | |
| Restrictions, Limitations, Confinements, Casita Maria Center, Bronx, NY | |
| 2011 | Museum As a Hub: Alpha’s Bet is Not Over Yet, at the New Museum, New York, NY |
| The S/ Files, El Museo's 6th Biennial, at El Museo, Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad Fombella and Elvis Fuentes, New York, NY | |
| The African Continuum, at the United Nations, New York, NY | |
| Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action, Graduate Center CUNY, New York, NY | |
| Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas, Curated by Tatiana Flores, Middlesex Art Gallery, Middlesex, NJ | |
| Elastic Identity, at IMC Lab + Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Paperwork, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, New York, NY | |
| Edouard Glissant: Inhabit his Name, Be Black Baby at Recess Space, New York, NY | |
| 2010 | Hair Tactics, New Jersey City Museum, Curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City, NJ |
| This elusive mirror image of matter, (solo exhibition) Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY | |
| Thinking Performance at the Guggenheim, Performed in Joan Jonas'- Mirror Piece I: Reconfigured, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | |
| Introductionso, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC | |
| Around the Way, curated by El Museo del Barrio, Macy's, New York, NY | |
| Lush, Art Solar, East Hampton, New York, NY | |
| Boundless Discourse, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ | |
| Wearing Spirit, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY | |
| Dance Ghost, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Public Collection | |
| BNY Mellon Art Collection, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| The Cleveland Clinic Fine Art Collection, Cleveland, OH | |
| Sindika Dokolo Foundation Collection, Luanda, AO | |
| Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL | |
| Phillip and Tracey Riese Foundation, New York, NY | |
| The Jean-Marc Salomon Foundation for Contemporary Art, Annecy, FR | |
| San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA | |
| Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA | |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Jaffa, IL | |
| Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, NY | |
| Grants, Awards and Residencies | |
| 2017 | New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Public Art Commission, 163rd Street Subway Station, New York, NY |
| Future Generations Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Foundation, Kiev, UA | |
| Rome Prize (shortlist), Rome, IT | |
| 2016 | Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Art, Sausalito, CA |
| 2014 | The Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting |
| 2013 | Fine Arts Work Center, Artist in Residence, Provincetown, MA |
| Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Sausalito, CA | |
| Dieu Donné Paper Mill, Workspace Artist in Residence, New York, NY | |
| Wave Hill, Workspace Artist in Residence, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | AIM, Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum, NY |
| Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY | |
| 2011 | Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY |
| 2010 | Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Skowhegan School Of Painting and Sculpture, Full Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME |
| 2007 | Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO) Award Recipient, Bronx, NY |
| Aljira Emerge, A Career Management and Exhibition Program for Emerging Artists | |
| 2004 | The Jaque and Natasha Gelman Award for Painting, New York, NY |
| 2003 | The O'Brien Travel Award, Cooper Union, New York, NY |
| 2002 | William Randolph Hearst Award, Cooper Union, New York, NY |
