Teresita Fernández
Artist Teresita Fernández creates work that is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Questions of power, visibility, and erasure are important tenets of Fernández’s work, and she confronts these themes in subtle ways, insisting on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense.
Fernández has 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.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at SITE Santa Fe; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Phoenix Art Museum; Pérez Art Museum Miami; 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; Smithsonian Museum of American Art; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin.
Fernández is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including a Creative Capital Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Artist's Grant. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.