Adapted 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.