Teresita Fernández (American, born )

Timeline

1968
Born in Miami, FL
1986–1990
BFA, Florida International University, Miami, FL
1990–1992
MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1994
NEA Individual Artist's Grant, Visual Arts
Cintas Fellowship
1995
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, CAVA Fellowship
Metro-Dade Cultural Consortium Grant
1997
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, The Space Program, New York, NY
ARCUS Project, Moriya, Japan
1998
ArtPace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX
1999
Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award
American Academy in Rome, Affiliated Fellowship
2003
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY
2005
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2015
Teresita Fernández: Fata Morgana, Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY (solo)
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, a selection of works from the collection of Christy and William C. Gautreaux, The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
Horizon, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
2014
Almine Rech, London, UK (solo)
Nishijin Sky: Teresita Fernandez + HOSOO, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
As Above So Below, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (solo)
NOW-ism: Abstraction Today!, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind, Lehman College of Art, Bronx, NY
Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
Cuban Forever, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Mary Corse, Teresita Fernandez, Maya Lin, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Pattern: Follow the Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, MI
Order, Chaos, and the Space Between: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
A New View: Contemporary Art, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2012
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2011
Pivot Points V: Teresita Fernández, MOCA, North Miami, FL (solo)
Intimate Immensity, SCAD Galerie Pfriem, Lacoste, France (solo)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
MOCA Miami, Miami, FL
Lehmann Maupin at STPI, Singapore
Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
MOCA Cleveland, OH
The Parallax View, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2010
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (solo)
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (solo)
Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul, Turkey
2009
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (solo)
2008
Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo)
Mental Drawings, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2007
Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
The Sum of Its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006
A Room of One’s Own, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
Big Juicy Paintings and More: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2005
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Vanishing Point: Hidden Beauty in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2004
In Situ: Installations and Large-Scale Works in the Permanent Collection, MoCA Miami, FL
2003
Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
2002
The Young Latins, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, NY
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Show, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
Off the Grid, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (solo)
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY (solo)
2001
Bamboo Cinema, Public Art Fund commission, Madison Square Park, New York, NY (solo)
Hortus Conclusus, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (cat.)
Inside Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (cat.)
Reading the Museum, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Estudio Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (solo) (cat.)
2000
Hothouse, Commissioned Project, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo) (brochure)
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Wonderland, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (cat.)
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (cat.)
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
Site Santa-Fe, Santa Fe, NM (solo) (cat.)
1999
Supernova, Berkeley Art Museum/Matrix, Berkeley, CA (solo)(brochure)
Borrowed Landscape, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
Teresita Fernández, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo) (cat.)
Luminous Mischief, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Japan (Brochure)
On Your Own Time, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY
1998
Artspace, San Antonio, TX (solo) (brochure)
Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Threshold, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (cat.)
Seamless, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands(Brochure)
Insertions, Arkipelag/Cultural Capital, Stockholm, Sweden (Brochure)
1997
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (solo) (brochure)
The Crystal Stopper, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
X-Site, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
1996
Teresita Fernández, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
Enclosures, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Container 96, Copenhagen Cultural Capital, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)
Defining the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (cat.)
1995
Real/More Real, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (solo) (brochure)
Selections Spring '95, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (Brochure)
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
1992
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anderwson Gallery Richmond, VA (solo)

Literature

2008
Douglas, Sarah. "Conversation with Rosa de la Cruz". ARTINFO, 1 December.
Douglas, Sarah. "A Soft Landing at Frieze?" ARTINFO, 15 Oct.
2007
Richard, Frances, “Teresita Fernandez,” ArtForum, Summer issue, pg. 496.
Bryant, Eric, “Teresita Fernandez,” Art News, Summer issue, pg. 197.
Teresita Fernandez,” The New Yorker, April, pg. 14.
Stringfield, Anne, “The Dazzle,” Vogue, April issue, pg. 270.
Farr, Sheila, “Stunning sculpture park could redefine waterfront,” The Seattle Times, 14 January.
Howe Verhovek, Sam, “Transformed by a creative use of space,” The Los Angeles Times, 15 January.
Herzberg, Julia, “A Room of One’s Own,” Arte Aldia, issue 117, pg. 94-99.
Tuchman, Phyllis, “Sunday in the Park with McDreamy,” artnet.com, 8 February.
2006
“The New Alchemists”, Men’s Vogue, November/December, p. 200.
Chang, Daniel, Fabiola Santiago and Elisa Turner, “America’s largest art museum is open,” The Miami Herald, 7 December.
Shi, Jim, “Double the Louis: Vuitton’s San Francisco expansion,” WWD, 6 December.
2005
Ribas, Joao, “In the News: Teresita Fernandez,” ArtInfo, 25 September.
Santiago Fabiola, “Her Dedication to a Stroke of Genius,” Miami Herald, October.
Sederstrom, Johnathon, “Genius boro,” New York Daily News, September.
Amy, Michael, “Teresita Fernández at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York,” tema celeste, September/October, Issue 111.
Newhall, Marissa, “25 earn the ‘genius’ title,” USA Today, 20 September.
Wallis, Stephen, “In the Studio,” Art & Auction, March, 38-42.
Yehya, Naief, “Teresita Fernandez at Lehmann Maupin Gallery,” Art Nexus, June, No. 57, Vol. 3, pp. 146-7.
Gardner, James, “Art Attack: Teresita Fernandez,” The New York Post, 14 May, p. 29.
Stakias, Lauren, “Exposed to the Elements, Teresita Fernandez captures the force of nature by surprisingly minimal means,” ArtReview, April.
2003
Harper, Paula, “Teresita Fernández at Miami Art Museum,” Art in America, November 2003.
2003
Momim, Shamim, “Three Variations On Sculpture: E.V. Day, Teresita Fernández, Tom Friedman,” Flash Art, May/June 2003, 114 – 117.
2002
Boswell, Peter, “New Work, Teresita Fernández,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Brochure
The New Yorker, 18 November 2002.
2001
M. Sheets, Hilarie, “Gardens of Earthly Delights,” Artnews, September, p. 138-141.
de Alfonso, Carlota. 'Teresita Fernandez,La Espacialidad Como ArgumentoEl Punto, Madrid, (January 28-February 1,Year XV, No. 598):6.,'
Silver, Joanne. 'Home is Where the Cliches Aren't,' Boston Herald, (February 2).
Vogel, Carol. 'Inside Art-Art in the Park,' The New York Times, May 25,E26.
Turner, Elisa. 'Global Perspective,' The Miami Herald, Miami, Dec. 23, Lively Arts Section:1.
Skurvida, Sandra. 'Teresita Fernandez's Hothouse,' NY ARTS. (January):74.
Murria, Alicia. 'Teresita Fernández,' Lápiz, (February, No 169/170):184
Lloyd, Anne Wilson. 'Teresita Fernández at Castello di Rivoli,' Art in America, (Dec, no.12): 127.
Llorca, Pablo. 'Termitas Minimalistas,' El Pedriodico del Arte, Madrid,(Feb. No. 41):17.
2000
Cherubini, Laura. 'Kritiker-Umfrage;Das Kunst Jahr 1999,' Art-Das Kunstmagazin, (January, Nr.1):60
Yehya, Naief. 'Teresita Fernandez-Deitch Projects,' Art Nexus, (No.34, November-January, 2000):144-145.
Protzman, Ferdinand. 'VCU Sculpture: A Prominent Profile,' The Washington Post, (January 30), Section G,: 1,4.
Kamiya, Yukie. 'Teresita Fernandez,' Bijutsu Techo Monthly Art Magazine, (January, Volume 52, no.782): 116-117.
Colman, David. 'The Wonderful Wizard of Art,' Harper's Bazaar (Sept);536-539
Carver, Jon. 'Tomorrowland, Today,' Santa Fe Reporter, Santa-Fe, (Nov.14-21)
1999
Ho, Melissa. "Teresita Fernández," New Art Examiner, (July/August): 56-57
Harris, Jane. "Intimate Immensity," Art/Text, (February-April, No.64):39-41.
Leffingwell, Edward. "Teresita Fernández at Deitch Projects," Art In America,(November, No.11): 138-139.
Lloyd, Anne Wilson. "From an Architect of Desire, Many-Layered Constructions," The New York Times, (March 21), Section 2,: 41.
Moleski, Charles. "Reviews-Teresita Fernández," Art Papers, (Sept/Oct): 54-55.
Morgan, Anne Barclay. "Focus: Teresita Fernández," Sculpture, (January/February, Volume 18, no.1): 8-9.
Williams, Gregory. "Into the Void," World Art (Issue 20): 58-61.
Smith, Roberta. "Teresita Fernández, Borrowed Landscape," The New York Times, (June 4). E33.
Spada, Sabina. "Teresita Fernández, Recensoni," Tema Celeste, Italy. (Volume 75, July-September): 85.
Feinstein, Roni. "Report from Miami:Part II / Miami Heats Up," Art In America,(Nov, No.11):58-69.
Kamiya, Yukie. "Borrowing Scenery- An Interview with Teresita Fernández /Scenari in Prestito," -Cross (No. 2 , 1999, Immersion(e),:116-121.
1998
Dellinger, Jade. "Cityscape-Miami," Flashart, (March/April 1998): 69-72.
Basualdo, Carlos. "X-Site '97," Artforum, (March): 104-105.
DiPietro, Monty. "A Room with a View-and a Very Cozy Perspective," Asahi Evening News, (September 10):11.
Lerner, Adam J. "Teresita Fernández/Quisqueya Henriquez," Art Papers, (March/April, Volume 22, Issue 2):50.
Tanguy, Sarah. "X-Site 97,"Sculpture,(March, 1998-Volume 17,No.3): 60-62.
Sheets, Hilarie. "Gardens of Earthly Delights," Artnews, (Sept., Volume 100/no. 8): 138-141.
Morgan, Anne Barclay. "Paths to Success: Recently "Emerged" Artists," Sculpture. (July/August, Volume 17, no.6):48-53.
1997
Avgikos, Jan. "The Crystal Stopper," Artforum, (September): 124.
Cantor, Judy. "Room with a View," The New Times, Miami, (July 20): 65
Drolet, Owen. "Teresita Fernández," Flashart, (March/ April 1997):111.
Dorsey, John. "X-Site," The Sun, Baltimore, (October 28, 1997): 1E-4E.
Feaster, Felicia. "Enclosures," Art Papers, (March/April, Vol. 2, Issue 2): 63.
Giuliano, Mike. "Global Warnings," The City Paper, Baltimore, (Dec 3).
Sundell, Margaret. "The Crystal Stopper," Art Nexus, (July-Sept. 1997, no. 25): 115 116.
Lovelace, Cary. "Weighing in on Feminism," Art News, (May): 141.
Amor, Monica. "Teresita Fernández at Deitch Projects," Art Nexus, (no. 23): 142-143.
1995
Turner, Elisa. "Consortium Show Aims High...," The Miami Herald, Miami, (June 11), Lively Arts Section: 5.
Turner, Elisa. "Transitory yet Sturdy Nature Sets COCA‚s Tone of Paradox," The Miami Herald, Miami, (June 20). Lively Arts Section:1.