Firelei Baez's guest appearances

Firelei Baez

BeYourOwnMuse

Lineage Podcast

Lynn Nottage

Russell Frederick

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Okwui Okpokwasili

Deborah Roberts

Erika Dalya Massaquoi

Derrick Adams

Mickalene Thomas

Reginald Dwayne Betts

Vanessa German

Zoe Whitley

Park McArthur

Sonia Sanchez

Jason Moran

Camille A. Brown

OwlTail

Firelei Báez ​(b. 1981, Dominican Republic) ​is a celebrated painter and sculptor who received a M.F.A. from Hunter College, a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union’s School of Art, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2020, Báez was shortlisted for Artes Mundi 9, and will be the subject of a solo presentation at the ICA Watershed, Boston, MA this summer. Just this week, it was announced that she is the recipient of the 2021 Phillip Guston Rome Prize-- a highly competitive fellowship that supports advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities.Baez has had solo exhibitions at the Mennello Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the Modern Window at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her major 2015 solo exhibition Bloodlines was organized by the Pérez Art Museum Miami and travelled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Firelei Báez ​(b. 1981, Dominican Republic) ​is a celebrated painter and sculptor who received a M.F.A. from Hunter College, a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union’s School of Art, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2020, Báez was shortlisted for Artes Mundi 9, and will be the subject of a solo presentation at the ICA Watershed, Boston, MA this summer. Just this week, it was announced that she is the recipient of the 2021 Phillip Guston Rome Prize-- a highly competitive fellowship that supports advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities.Baez has had solo exhibitions at the Mennello Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the Modern Window at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her major 2015 solo exhibition Bloodlines was organized by the Pérez Art Museum Miami and travelled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

AFRICA FORECAST artist Firelei Baez discusses the dynamics of race and identity in her work within the context of her Dominican and Haitian roots and upbringing in the United States. Baez also delves into how Afro-Caribbeanfolklore plays an important thematic role in what she creates, theimportance of the size/scale of her work, and why she is excited to have work on view at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.Image courtesy of the artist

AFRICA FORECAST artist Firelei Baez discusses the dynamics of race and identity in her work within the context of her Dominican and Haitian roots and upbringing in the United States. Baez also delves into how Afro-Caribbean folklore plays an important thematic role in what she creates, the importance of the size/scale of her work, and why she is excited to have work on view at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Image courtesy of the artist