Teresita Fernández

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Teresita Fernández

American, born 1968

BiographyAdapted from artist’s gallery website: https://
www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/teresita-fernandez
Teresita Fernández is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient
of numerous awards, including a Creative Capital Award; Meridian
Cultural Diplomacy Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; Louis Comfort
Tiffany Biennial Award; American Academy of Rome Fellowship
(AFAAR); and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s
Grant in Visual Arts. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack
Obama to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. She is the first
Latina to serve on the 100-year-old federal panel, which advises the
president and Congress on national matters of design and aesthetics. In
2016, she conceived and directed the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures
Symposium with the Ford Foundation, which brought together artists,
curators, museum directors, and scholars from across the country to
discuss modes of visibility within cultural institutions. Her work has
been exhibited internationally at the Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston; New Britain Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern
Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia
Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami;
Harvard University, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago;
Des Moines Art Center; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Museum
of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de
Málaga; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Smithsonian Museum of
American Art; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; and
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, among others. Fernández has also created
numerous large-scale public sculptures, including at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music; New Orleans Museum of Art; Ford Foundation,
New York; and Madison Square Park. She lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York.

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