FIRELEI BÁEZ

Award-winning New-York based artist Firelei Báez was born in 1981 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother and a father of Haitian descent. Her upbringing between Hispaniola’s two countries, which have a longstanding history of tension predicated on ethnic difference, informs her concerns with the politics of place and heritage. Báez received an MFA from Hunter College, a BFA from the Cooper Union’s School of Art, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Báez’s work resides in permanent collections nationally and internationally, including the Studio Museum, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Collection, United Kingdom, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, among others.