Firelei Báez

Firelei Báez (b. 1980, Dominican Republic) casts diasporic histories into an imaginative realm. Her empowered figures assert individuality and agency, envisioning identities as unfixed and inherited stories as perpetually evolving. Báez has exhibited internationally, including Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2024); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (touring) (2024); South London Gallery, London (2024); and the 59th Venice Biennale, Italy (2022). She has received the Cooper Union President’s Citation Award, New York (2022), Philip Guston Rome Prize, Italy (2021), and Artes Mundi 9 Prize, Cardiff (2021). Báez holds an MFA from Hunter College and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.