Teresita Fernandez

BIOGRAPHY
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TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ
1968 Born in Miami, Florida  
  Lives and works in Brooklyn 
   
Training  
1990-1992 MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1986-1990 BFA, Florida International University, Miami, FL
   
Solo Exhibitions
2012 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2011 Gallery 313, Seoul, Korea
  Focus: Teresita Fernandez, Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX
  STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute), Singapore
  Blind Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2010 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
  Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2009 Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
  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, NY
2005 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain
  Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
2002 Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
  Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2001 Bamboo Cinema, Public Art Fund commission, Madison Square Park, New York, NY
  Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
  Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2000 Hothouse, Commissioned Project, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  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 
2011 NY: New Perspectives, with the contribution of Linda Yablonsky, Brand New Gallery, Milan
  Intimate Immensity, SCAD Galerie Pfriem, Lacoste, France
  The Parallax View, Lehman Maupin, New York, NY
2010 Now WHAT?, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
  Big New Field, Dallas Musseum of Art, Dallas, TX
  Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul
  Setouchi International Art Festival, Naoshima, Japan
2009 The Passionate Pursuit, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
  Mark-Making: Dots. Lines, and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
  Paper Trail V: Intimate Gestures, Judi Rottenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
  New Work, Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 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
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 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, FL
2002 Outer City, Inner Space: Teresita Fernández, Stephen Hendee, and Ester Partegas, Whitney Philip Morris, New York, NY
  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
2001 GlobeIsland, 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
   
Awards  
2010 Residency at the Singapore Tyler Pratt Institute
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