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Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez (born 1981) is an Dominican-American artist, based in New York City. She is best known for large scale works, particularly on paper. Her first solo show, Firelei Báez: Bloodlines exhibited at Miami's Perez Art Museum in 2015. Her work encompasses identity through various cultural and geographic lenses, as well as feminine craft as communication and resistance among women of the African Diaspora.

Early Life and Education
Báez was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic to Dominican and Haitian parents. In 1990, at the age of 9, her family immigrated to the United States. She earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Cooper Union's School of Art in New York City. Báez continued her education and received a Masters of Fine Arts from Hunter College in 2010.

Career
In addition to her education, Báez has also held numerous residencies throughout the country. Some of these residencies include The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace and The Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace.

Her work details the history of social movement in the Caribbean and Americas.

Honors and Awards
In 2010, She received the prestigious Painters and Sculptors award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

In 2015, She won the Catherine Doctorow Prize For Contemporary Painter for her solo exhibition, Patterns of Resistance.

In 2016, She earned the Chiaro award, as well as a $15,000 cash prize and full residency, from the Headlands Center for the Arts.