Teresita Fernández (b. 1968, Miami, Florida) is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts artist’s grant winner, an American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellow, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award recipient. In 2011, President Obama appointed Fernández to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a federal panel that advises the President, Congress, and governmental agencies on national matters of design and aesthetics. Fernández’s large-scale commissions and site-specific works include “Hothouse” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; “Blind Blue Landscape” at the Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan; “Stacked Waters” at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, and “Seattle Cloud Cover” for the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Fernández has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) in Málaga, Spain. She received her M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and her B.F.A. from Florida International University. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is represented by the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York and Hong Kong.
