“These here are little protective hair buns, or anchoitas,” says the Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez during the last days of summer, pointing to a series of sensuous, inky coiled-hair paintings in ...

Firelei Báez‘s whole identity is a political tug-of-war. Born to a Dominican mother and a father of Haitian descent, the 34-year-old artist and self-described “Caribbean hybrid” was raised in Dajabón, ...

An immersive sculptural installation at the Momentary in Arkansas will offer visitors an unusual opportunity: to travel through time and space. The expansive work by Firelei Báez reimagines the ruins ...

The work of Firelei Báez, the subject of a first-ever museum survey opening at the ICA this week, is so rich with meaning, and so articulately painterly, that writing about it is a dilemma: Do I skim ...

Firelei Báez is a Dominican artist known for her work on paper and canvas, sculpture. Her art often explores untold stories and unheard voices. Born in 1981 in Santiago de Los Caballeros, Dominican ...