Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Teresita Fernandez

Biography

Teresita Fernández was born in 1968 in Miami, Florida and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions internationally and abroad at sites including the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy, the Witte de With in Rotterdam, and the Miami Art Museum. She was also featured in "Outer City, Inner Space: Teresita Fernandez, Stephen Hendee, and Ester Partegas" at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in 2002.

Fernández is the youngest artist commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum for the recently opened Olympic Sculpture Park, where her work Seattle Cloud Cover allows visitors to walk through a covered skyway while viewing the city’s skyline through tiny holes in multicolored glass. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards both in the U.S. and abroad, including the 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, and she has had residencies in Japan, Italy, and at ArtPace in San Antonio. She was commissioned for special projects by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2000, and by the Public Art Fund in 2001.

Her work is included in numerous major private collections as well as the permanent collections of the St. Louis Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Miami Art Museum, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Sammlung Goetz, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.

Fernández had her first solo exhibition in 1995 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and regularly exhibits work worldwide.
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Gallery Exhibitions

Teresita Fernández  29 March - 28 April 2007
Teresita Fernandez  15 April - 14 May 2005
Teresita Fernandez  24 October - 30 November 2002
Off the Grid - GROUP SHOW  17 January - 16 February 2002
The Crystal Stopper - GROUP SHOW  22 March - 19 April 1997

Museum Exhibtions

CAC Malaga, Spain  3 June - 21 August 2005
Grand Arts, Kansas City  13 June - 2 August 2003
Miami Art Museum  14 November 2002 - 19 January 2003
Whitney Philip Morris  18 July 2002 - 3 January 2003
Museum of Modern Art  1 November 2000 - 2 January 2001
SITE Santa Fe  7 October 2000 - 14 January 2001

Press

Art Forum - Art Forum - June, 2007
Vogue - Vogue - April, 2007
Tema Celeste - Tema Celeste - October, 2005
New York Daily News - New York Daily News - September, 2005
USA Today - USA Today - September, 2005
ArtNexus - ArtNexus - June, 2005
ArtReview - ArtReview - April, 2005
Art + Auction - Art + Auction - March, 2005
Art in America - Art in America - November, 2003
Art in America - Art in America - March, 2003
Art in America - Art in America - December, 2001
ARTnews - ARTnews - September, 2001
New York Times - New York Times - March, 1999

Publications

Teresita Fernandez - CAC Malaga Catalog
Teresita Fernandez - Galleria In Arco Catalog
Teresita Fernandez - Site Santa Fe Catalog

Selected Works

Longing (Double Portrait), 2007 black onyx and glass with silvering 62 x 135 inches 157.5 x 342.9 cm Edition 1 of 5 LM10657


Longing (Double Portrait) detail, 2007 black onyx and glass with silvering 62 x 135 inches 157.5 x 342.9 cm


Ink Mirror (Landscape), 2007 high-polished black fiberglass and marble dust 71 x 174 x 58 inches 180.3 x 442 x 147.3 cm unique LM10482


Vertigo (Sotto in su) , 2007 polished precision-cut aluminum 41.375 x 144 x 129 inches 105.1 x 365.8 x 327.7 cm Edition 1 of 2 Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa LM10593


Vertigo (Sotto in su) detail, 2007 polished precision-cut aluminum 41.375 x 144 x 129 inches 105.1 x 365.8 x 327.7 cm Edition 1 of 2 Graphicstudio, University of South Florida, Tampa LM10593


Projection Screen (Black Onyx) , 2007 black onyx 76 x 103 inches 193 x 261.6 cm Edition 1 of 3 LM10659


Mirror Canopy , 2007 glass with silvering 106 x 154 inches 269.2 x 391.2 cm Edition 1 of 2 LM10658


Seattle Cloud Cover, 2004-2006 laminated glass with photographic design interlay 114 x 2400 x 75 inches 289.6 x 6096 x 190.5 cm LM8457 Commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum for the Olympic Sculpture Park


Seattle Cloud Cover, 2004-2006 laminated glass with photographic design interlay 114 x 2400 x 75 inches 289.6 x 6096 x 190.5 cm LM8457 Commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum for the Olympic Sculpture Park


Vermillion Landscape, 2006 plexiglass cubes with photographic image overlay 72 x 120 x 12 inches 182.9 x 304.8 x 30.5 cm Edition of 2 LM9976


Fire, 2005 silk yarn, steel armature, epoxy 96 x 144 diameter inches 243.8 x 365.8 cm In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia LM8520


Eruption (Small), 2005 aluminum, glass beads, wood, vinyl 4 x 96 x 48 inches 10.2 x 243.8 x 121.9 cm LM8693


Burnout, 2005 glass cubes 69 x 67.5 inches 175.3 x 171.5 cm Edition of 3 LM8525


Burnout, 2005 (detail) glass cubes 69 x 67.5 inches 175.3 x 171.5 cm Edition of 3 LM8525


Blue Haze, 2004 ink on wood panel 64 x 80 inches 162.6 x 203.2 cm LM8339


Foam Fall, 2003 collage and ink 14 x 11 inches (paper) 35.6 x 27.9 cm 17.25 x 14.25 inches (framed) 43.8 x 36.2 cm LM6748


Dune, 2002 painted aluminum, glass beads variable dimensions LM6262


Sky (Plane), 2002 Installation View, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris July 18, 2002 - January 3, 2002 Polycarbonate tubes 36 x 27 feet LM5675


Bamboo Cinema, 2001 Installation at Madison Square Park, NY April - September 2002 Commissioned by Public Art Fund, special project for Target Art in the Park, Madison Square Parkacrylic, steel 96 x 332 inches diameter 243.8 x 843.3 cm LM5127


Waterfall, 2000 Installation at SITE Santa Fe, 2000 aluminum, plastic 144.09 x 144.09 x 335.83 inches 366 x 366 x 853 cm LM5178

Installation Video

Installation at Miami Art Museum 15 November 2002 - 19 January 2003 Video courtesy Miami Art Museum. All works in the exhibition realized with assistance from Miami Art Museum, works courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York