Firelei Báez

Throughout her wide-ranging multimedia practice, Firelei Báez creates a colorful, imaginative universe that meditates on identity, cultural exchange, and the politics of place. Maps, historical documents, feathers, textiles, and plant life are frequent motifs throughout the artist’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations. Folklore is of particular interest to Báez, whose art reconsiders historical and social constructions of self. Báez received her MFA from Hunter College in 2010 and has exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Brussels, and London. She has executed public commissions on the High Line and the New York City subway. Báez has enjoyed solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and her work belongs in the collections of Pérez Art Museum Miami, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.