Teresita Fernández (b. 1968, Miami, FL, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a conceptual artist best known for her monumental public projects that expand on notions of landscape and place. Her work, often inspired by natural phenomena—meteor showers, the aurora borealis, cloud formations, fire, and the night sky—invites experiential engagement with the work and the space it occupies. Fernández places particular importance on her choice of medium, playing with the limitations of materials and employing those such as gold, graphite, and other minerals that have loaded histories often tied to colonialism, history, land, and power. Her work is characterized by a quiet unraveling of place, visibility, and erasure that prompts an intimate experience for individual viewers. In 2015, Fernández installed her largest public art project to date, Fata Morgana, in New York’s Madison Square Park. The work was composed of overhead, mirrored canopies above all of the park’s walkways, and its title refers to mirages that hover right above the horizon.