It’s hyper-specific to a geography, but also hyper-specific to viewer experience.
Its something I couldn’t have dictated.
Vast and nuanced, they evoke the feeling that each person can contain multitudes.
Firelei Báez, “Untitled (Temple of Time),” 2020, oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas, Wilks Family Collection, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle, © Firelei Báez
Shes a historian and a time-traveler and a myth maker.
Baez’s self-titled retrospective is currently on view at Vancouver Art Gallery through March 16, 2025.
To stay up to date with the artist’s work, followFirelei Baez on Instagram.
Firelei Báez, “Untitled (United States Marine Hospital),” 2019, oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchase with funds from the International Director’s Council in honor of Carolyn Wade, with additional funds from the Young Collectors Council, 2020, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle, © Firelei Báez
Installation view of Firelei Baez, Can I Pass?
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Installation view of Firelei Báez, “A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways),” 2019, at James Cohan, New York, 2019, The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle. © Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez, “Untitled (Les tables de geographie reduites en un jeu de cartes),” 2022, oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas, Collection of Deborah Beckmann and Jacob Kotzubei, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Jackie Furtado, © Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez, “Fire wood pretending to be fire, February 12, 2012,” 2013, acrylic and gouache on Yupo paper, Collection of Carol Sutton Lewis and William M. Lewis, Jr., Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Adam Reich, © Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez, “A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways),” 2019 (detail), two paintings, hand-painted wooden frame, perforated tarp, printed mesh, handmade paper over found objects, plants, books, Oman incense and palo santo, The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle, © Firelei Báez
Installation view of Firelei Báez, “Can I Pass? Introducing the Paper Bag to the Fan Test for the Month of July” (detail) 2011, in Firelei Báez, the Institute ofContemporary Art/Boston, 2024, gouache, ink, and graphite on panel, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Mel Taing, © Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez, “Adjusting the Moon (The right to non-imperative clarities): Waxing,” 2019–20, oil and acrylic on panel, Private Collection, Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York, Photo: Christopher Burke Studios, © Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez, “Truth was the bridge (or an emancipatory healing),” 2024, digital prints on vinyl mesh, Courtesy of the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York. Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery
