Artforum
“Firelei Baez Named Winner of the 2015 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting,”
FIRELEI BÁEZ
the soft afternoon air as you hold us all in a single death (To breathe full and Free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction), 2021
Acryl-gouache and chine collé on archival printed paper
Dimensions variable
JCG11447
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (A Map of the British Empire in America), 2021
Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas
96 7/8 x 132 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.
245.9 x 335.8 x 4 cm
JCG11286
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Marine Hospital), 2021
Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas
90 x 114 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.
228.6 x 290.8 x 4 cm
JCG11525
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (New Chart of the Windward Passages), 2020
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
66 x 86 1/4 in.
167.6 x 219.1 cm
JCG11256
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Insularum Hispaniolae et Cubae), 2020
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
64 x 80 in.
162.6 x 203.2 cm
JCG11258
FIRELEI BÁEZ
On rest and resistance, Because we love you (to all those stolen from among us), 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
48 x 60 in
121.9 x 152.4 cm
JCG11573
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Temple of Time), 2020
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
94 1/2 x 132 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.
240 x 336.2 x 4 cm
JCG11295
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (United States Marine Hospital), 2019
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
100 x 127 1/2 x 1 3/4 in
254 x 323.9 x 4.4 cm
JCG11077
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Baubo), 2020
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
86 3/4 x 132 3/4 x 1 5/8 in
220.3 x 337 x 4 cm
JCG11287
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Anacaona), 2020
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
96 3/8 x 127 3/8 in
244.6 x 323.5 cm
JCG11257
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Flow of merchandise in France on railways and waterways in the year 1856)
2020
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
78 x 60 5/8 in
198.1 x 154 cm
JCG11292
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Le Jeu du Monde), 2020
Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
105 x 131 3/4 x 1 5/8 in
266.7 x 334.5 x 4 cm
(JCG11288)
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Convex (recalibrating a blind spot)
2019
Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas
96 7/8 x 124 5/8 in
246.1 x 316.5 cm
(JCG11032)
FIRELEI BÁEZ
19.604692°N 72.218596°W
2019
Commissioned by the High Line as a part of En Plein Air, April 2019 – March 2020
Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy of the High Line.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
19.604692°N 72.218596°W
2019
Commissioned by the High Line as a part of En Plein Air, April 2019 – March 2020
Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy of the High Line.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways)
2019
Two paintings, hand-painted wooden frame, perforated tarp, printed mesh, handmade paper over found objects, plants, books, Oman incense, palo santo
373 1/4 x 447 x 157 in
JCG10437
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Tignon for Ayda Weddo (or that which a center can not hold)
2019
Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas
91 1/2 x 114 1/4 in
JCG10459
FIRELEI BÁEZ
the trace, whether we are attending to it or not (a space for each other's breathing)
2019
Acrylic, oil, and transfer on archival printed canvas
90 x 114 3/8 in
228.6 x 290.5 cm
JCG10455
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Untitled (Central Power Station)
2019
Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas
96 7/8 x 124 5/8 in
JCG10432
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Chrono-DREAMer
2019
Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas
72 x 48 in
JCG10251
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Beauty as a practice (to see in discrete angles and blocks)
2019
Acrylic, oil, and transfer on archival printed canvas
89 x 114 3/8 in
JCG10457
FIRELEI BÁEZ
An open horizon (or the stillness of a wound)
2019
Acrylic and oil on archival printed canvas
89 1/2 x 114 in
JCG10458
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Je bâtis a roches mon langage, 2019
Perforated tarp, printed mesh, artificial and real plants; two paintings:
For Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (a reconstituted echo, to be spoken, complete), 2019, Acrylic and oil on canvas, frame
Errantry (a minor key that alters the structure of the major form within), 2019, Oil, acrylic, and gold foil on canvas
Installation view: Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 27 January - 12 May 2019
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Je bâtis a roches mon langage, 2019
Perforated tarp, printed mesh, artificial and real plants; two paintings:
For Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur (a reconstituted echo, to be spoken, complete), 2019, Acrylic and oil on canvas, frame
Errantry (a minor key that alters the structure of the major form within), 2019, Oil, acrylic, and gold foil on canvas
Installation view: Firelei Báez, new work, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 27 January - 12 May 2019
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Coqueta (history composed of ruptures)
2019
Arylic and oil on canvas
90 x 114 in
JCG10294
FIRELEI BÁEZ
May 19, 2017, 6:05 p.m. (an idiom playing out its history)
2018
Oil, oil stick and graphite over canvas
92 x 120 inches
JCG10227
FIRELEI BÁEZ
For Améthyste and Athénaïre (Exiled Muses Beyond Jean Luc Nancy’s Canon), Anacaonas
2018
Oil on canvas and wood panel, hand-painted frames
Installation view: The Modern Window: Firelei Báez, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018-2019
Digital Image © 2018 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photographed by John Wronn
FIRELEI BÁEZ
For Améthyste and Athénaïre (Exiled Muses Beyond Jean Luc Nancy’s Canon), Anacaonas
2018
Oil on canvas and wood panel, hand-painted frames
120 x 252 inches
Installation view: The Modern Window: Firelei Báez, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018-2019
Photograph by Kurt Heumiller
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Ramo de Fuego (so the songs could speak)
2019
Oil on canvas
72 x 60 inches
JCG10252
FIRELEI BÁEZ
can you not see that we are implicated in its evolution?, 2017
Oil on canvas
84 x 60 in
213.4 x 152.4 cm
(JCG11395)
FIRELEI BÁEZ
For Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona, 2017
Oil on canvas
84 x 60 in
213.4 x 152.4 cm
(ZNI0337)
Photo: Amy Pearman, Boyd Pearman Photography
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Man Without a Country (aka anthropophagist wading in the Artibonite River)
2014-15
Gouache, ink and chine-collé on 220 deaccessioned book pages
106 ¼ x 252 in.
Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), FL, 15 October 2015 - 6 March 2016
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Detail: Man Without a Country (aka anthropophagist wading in the Artibonite River)
2014-15
Gouache, ink and chine-collé on 220 deaccessioned book pages
106 ¼ x 252 in.
Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), FL, 15 October 2015 - 6 March 2016
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Installation view: Ciguapa Antellana, me llamo sueño de la madrugada (who more sci-fi than us)
2018
Glass mosaic
Permanent commission: MTA Arts & Design, 163 St-Amsterdam Av Station, Washington Heights, New York, NY
Commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts & Design. Photo: Osheen Harruthoonyan.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Installation view: Ciguapa Antellana, me llamo sueño de la madrugada (who more sci-fi than us)
2018
Glass mosaic
Permanent commission: MTA Arts & Design, 163 St-Amsterdam Av Station, Washington Heights, New York, NY
Commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts & Design. Photo: Osheen Harruthoonyan.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
for Marie-Louise Coidavid, exiled, keeper of order, Anacaona
2018
Oil on canvas
Installation view: 10th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Berlin, June 9 - September 9, 2018
Photo: Timo Ohler
FIRELEI BÁEZ
19° 36’ 16.89“ N, 72° 13’ 6.95“ W) / (52.4042° N, 13.0385° E
2018
Acrylic, sheetrock, steel
Installation view: 10th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Berlin, June 9 - September 9, 2018
Photo: Timo Ohler
FIRELEI BÁEZ
19° 36’ 16.89“ N, 72° 13’ 6.95“ W) / (52.4042° N, 13.0385° E
2018
Acrylic, sheetrock, steel
Installation view: 10th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Berlin, June 9 - September 9, 2018
Photo: Timo Ohler
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Given the ground ( the fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it), An irreducible singularity (speaking to the space you fill and you keep)
2017
Acrylic and oil on canvas
Installation view: Future Generation Art Prize, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, May 13 - September 26, 2017
FIRELEI BÁEZ
DREAMer (a demand for opacity that weaves no boundaries)
2017
Acrylic and oil on canvas
Installation view: Future Generation Art Prize, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, May 13 - September 26, 2017
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Installation view: Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, February 17 – May 21, 2017
Photo: Abby Warhola
FIRELEI BÁEZ
A Fever, a daydream
2017
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 64 in.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond)
2017
Installation view: Firelei Báez: To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, August 2017 - June 2018
Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Collector of shouts (April 21)
2016
Acrylic on Yupo paper
79 x 60 in.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
a name that doesn't exist
2016
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 in
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Goldie (in Clio's presence)
2016
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 36 in.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to the Fan Test for the Month of June
2011
Gouache, ink and graphite on panel
96 1/8 x 107 in.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Four of the sun (or the talking cure)
2016
Acrylic on Yupo paper
38 x 30 in.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
A modest mythology of walls
2016
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 in.
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Sans-Souci (This Threshold between a dematerialized and a historicized body)
2015
Acrylic and ink on linen
108 x 74 inches
FIRELEI BÁEZ
Ciguapa Pantera (to all the goods and pleasures of this world)
2015
Acrylic and ink on paper
95 × 65 in.