Across a diverse multimedia practice, Firelei Báez constructs a richly layered, vividly imaginative visual world that reflects on identity, cultural hybridity, and the politics of place. Her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations often incorporate recurring motifs such as maps, archival documents, feathers, textiles, and botanical forms, which she uses to interrogate histories of migration, displacement, and belonging. Folklore plays a central role in her work, serving as a framework through which she reexamines and reconfigures inherited social and historical narratives of the self.Báez earned her MFA from Hunter College in 2010 and has since exhibited internationally, including in New York, Tokyo, Brussels, and London. Her public commissions include major projects for the High Line and the New York City subway system. She has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.