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Firelei Báez, Joy Out Of Fire: The Studio Museum in Harlem in partnership with the Schomburg

Past exhibition
1 May - 24 November 2018
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Firelei Báez Dominican Republic, b. 1980

Joy Out of Fire, 2018
Acrylic on Teklon
108 x 156 in
274.3 x 396.2 cm
6655

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Firelei Báez, To clear my libraries of any stories passed down to me that do not hold our name in...
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Firelei Báez, To clear my libraries of any stories passed down to me that do not hold our name in...
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Firelei Báez, To clear my libraries of any stories passed down to me that do not hold our name in...
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Firelei Báez, To clear my libraries of any stories passed down to me that do not hold our name in...

Provenance

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Joy Out of Fire, The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY

Firelei Báez, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Firelei Báez, Kavi Gupta | Washington, Chicago, IL

2017 Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA

Vessel of Genealogies, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL

2016

Vessel of Genealogies, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

Unpacking Hispanola, with Scherezade Garcia (two person show), Taller Puertorriqueno,

Philadelphia, PA

Trust Memory Over History, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA

2015

Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, Perez Art Museum of Miami, curated by María Elena Ortiz, Miami, FL

Firelei Báez: Patterns of Resistance, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2013

Appendix to a Memory Table, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2012

Not Even Unalterable Limitations, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Psycho*Pomp, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno, NV

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2017

Love Thy Neighbor, Firelei Báez, Ignacio González-Lang, Irvin Morazan, the Bronx Museum of

the Arts, Bronx, NY

Future Generations Art Prize, PinchukArtCenter, Kiev Ukraine; traveling to Viva Arte Viva,

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, in conjunction

with Pacific Standard Time:LA>LA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA

2016 American Histories, Pi Artworks, London, United Kingdom

Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art,

Atlanta, GA

For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

Black Pulp!, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, Ruth and Elmer Wellin

Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Diaspora Calling, Kings Theater, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts,

Brooklyn, NY

2015 Between History and the Body, The 8th floor, New York, NY

A Curious Blindness, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New

York, NY

Concealed: Selections from The Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New

York, NY

2014 Prospect 3 U.S. Biennial, Notes for Now, New Orleans Biennial, Curated by Franklyn

Sirmans, New Orleans, LA

Small, drawing exhibition curated by Claire Gilman, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, curated by Elvis Fuentes at the Pérez Art Museum

Miami, Miami, FL

I Scarcely have the right to use this ghostly verb, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New

School, New York, NY

Firelei Báez: Fine Arts Work Center Solo Exhibition, Hudson D. Walker Gallery,

Provincetown, MA

Context and Counteractions: Selected Works by the 2013-2014, FAWC Visual Art Fellows,

Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL

2013 Fore, Studio Museum’s upcoming fourth emerging artist exhibition, curated by Naima Keith,

Thomas Lax and Lauren Hayes, New York, NY

More Than A Likeness , McClain Gallery, Houston, TX

The Bronx Museum AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

Crossing the Line: Contemporary Drawing and Artistic Process, Mixed Greens, New York, NY

Emo Show, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY

Drawn to Nature, curated by Jennifer McGregor at Wave Hill, New York, NY

Corporeal Contours: Works by Firelei Baez and Andrea Chung, curated by Jillian Narkornthap

at Community Folk Art Center, New York, NY

2012 Harbingers & Psychopomps, The IMC Lab + Gallery, New York, NY

Contemporary Watercolor, curated by Veronica Roberts, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY

ACIREMA, Curated by Cesar Garcia at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Body Snatchers, Curated by Raul Zamudio, White Box, New York, NY

Cultural Transference, Curated by Sara Reissman, EFA Project Space, New York, NY

Restrictions, Limitations, Confinements, Casita Maria Center, Bronx, NY

2011

Museum As a Hub: Alpha’s Bet is Not Over Yet, at the New Museum, New York, NY

The S/ Files, El Museo’s 6th Biennial, at El Museo, Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Trinidad

Fombella and Elvis Fuentes, New York, NY

The African Continuum, at the United Nations, New York, NY

Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action, Graduate Center CUNY, New York, NY

Disillusions: Gendered Visions of the Caribbean and its Diasporas, Curated by Tatiana Flores,

Middlesex Art Gallery, Middlesex, NJ

Elastic Identity, at IMC Lab + Gallery, New York, NY

Paperwork, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, New York, NY

Edouard Glissant: Inhabit his Name, Be Black Baby at Recess Space, New York, NY

2010

Hair Tactics, New Jersey City Museum, Curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City, NJ

This elusive mirror image of matter, (solo exhibition) Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, NY

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