Teresita Fernandez

Biography

1968 Born in Miami, FL

Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

1990-1992

MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

1986-1990

BFA, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Selected Grants and Fellowships

2005

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

2003

Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY

1999

Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award

American Academy in Rome, Affiliated Fellowship

1998

ArtPace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX

1997

Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, The Space Program, New York, NY

ARCUS Project, Moriya, Japan

1995

National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, CAVA Fellowship

Metro-Dade Cultural Consortium Grant

1994

NEA Individual Artist's Grant, Visual Arts

Cintas Fellowship

Commissions

2009

Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan

2008

Louis Vuitton Flagship, San Francisco, CA

2006

Seattle Cloud Cover, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington

Solo Exhibitions

2009

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Blind Landscape, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

2008

Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

2007

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

2005

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

2003

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy

Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

2002

Lehmann Maupin, New York

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2001

Bamboo Cinema, Public Art Fund commission, Madison Square Park, New York

Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2000

Hothouse, Commissioned Project, Museum of Modern Art, New York

James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

Site Santa-Fe, Santa Fe, NM

supernova, Berkeley Art Museum/Matrix, Berkeley, CA

1999

Borrowed Landscape, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1998

Artpace, San Antonio, TX

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1997

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1996

Deitch Projects, New York, NY

1995

Real/More Real, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

Mental Drawings, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy

2007

Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum

The Sum of Its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, NY

2006

A Room of One's Own, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami

The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy; Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, curated by Klaus Ottmann

Big Juicy Paintings (and More): Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2005

MoCA & Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Vanishing Point: Hidden Beauty in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2004

In Situ: Installations and Large-Scale Works in the Permanent Collection, MoCA Miami, Florida

2002

Outer City, Inner Space: Teresita Fernández, Stephen Hendee, and Ester Partegas, Whitney Philip Morris, New York

The Young Latins, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, NY

Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Show, Ace Gallery, New York

Off the Grid, Lehmann Maupin, New York

2001

Globe<Miami>Island, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL

Hortus Conclusus, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Inside Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Reading the Museum, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

2000

Wonderland, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, L.I.C., NY

not seeing, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX

Deja-vu, Miami Art Fair 2000, Miami, FL

1999

Luminous Mischief, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Japan

On Your Own Time, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, L.I.C., NY

1998

Threshold, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

Seamless, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Insertions, Arkipelag/Cultural Capital, Stockholm, Sweden

1997

The Crystal Stopper, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

X-Site, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD

1996

Enclosures, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Container 96, Copenhagen Cultural Capital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Defining the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

1995

Selections Spring '95, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Fine, TBA (Thomas Blackman) Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL

The New Orleans Triennial, The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

South Florida Cultural Consortium, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

1993

South Florida Artists Invitational, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

Thirty and Under, Ground Level Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

Selected Collections

Walker Art Center

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

American Friends of the Israel Museum

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Speed Art Museum

ArtPace

Nerman Collection

Sprint Collection

Progressive Collection

Selected Bibliography