Born in 1968, in Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Lives and works in New York, NY, U.S.A.
Education
1990-1992
MFA, Commonwealth University, Richmond, VI, U.S.A.
1986-1990
BFA, International University of Florida, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San francisco, CA, USA
2015
'Fata Morgana', Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, U.S.A
'Teresita Fernandez : As Above So below', Mass MoCa Museum, North Adams, MA
2014
Almine Rech Gallery, London
‘As Above So Below’, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
‘Nishijin Sky: Teresita Fernández + HOSOO’, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan
2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
2012
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, MI, U.S.A.
Place Vendome, Paris, France
‘Night Writing’, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2011
‘Pivot Points V’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.
‘Night Writing’, STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute), Singapore
‘Big new Field’, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
‘Drown Waters (Borrowdale)’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
‘Drown Waters (Borrowdale)’, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Gallery 313, Seoul, South Korea
‘Focus Series: Teresita Fernández’, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute), Singapore
‘Blind Landscape’, Museum of contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
2010
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
‘Big New Field’, Dallas Museum of Arts, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
2009
‘Blind Landscape’, USF Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, FL, U.S.A.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Blind Landscape’, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
2008
Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
2007
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2005
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2003
Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy
Grand Arts Gallery, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
2002
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Withney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2001
‘Bamboo Cinema’, Public Art Fund. Commission, Madison Square Park, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Castello di Rivoli-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2000
‘Hothouse’, Commissioned Project, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
1999
‘Supernova’, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
‘Borrowed Landscape’, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Teresita Fernández’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
1998
Artpace, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
1996
‘Teresita Fernández’, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1995
‘Real/More Real’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
1992
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Group Exhibitions
2017
‘Man in the mirror’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
2015
‘ Immersed’, SPACE Gallery - Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX, USA
‘Future Seasons Past’, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, a selection of works from the collection of Christy and William C. Gautreaux, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Horizon, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
2014
‘Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, a selection of works from the collection of Christy
and William C. Gautreaux’, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
‘NOW-ism : Abstraction Today!’Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
‘Man in the miror’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
‘As Above so Below’, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
‘Nishijin Sky: Teresita Fernández + HOSOO’, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Kyoto, Japan
‘Man in the Mirror’, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
2013
‘Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art’, Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
‘A New View: Contemporary Art, works from the collection’, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
‘Pattern: Follow the Rules’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
‘Order, Chaos, and the Space Between: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection’, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
‘Cuban Forever’, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, USA
‘Mary Corse, Teresita Fernández, Maya Lin’, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
‘Writings Without Borders’, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
‘Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art’, Contemporary Jewish
Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
2012
‘I Followed You into the Water’, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
‘Lehman Maupin Gallery at STIP (Singapore Tyler Print Institute)’, Singapore, Malaisia
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA
2011
‘Artists for Women for Women International’, Gagosian Gallery, Christies, London, UK.
‘The Value of Water’, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY.
‘NY: New Perspectives’, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
‘New Work’, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA.
‘Outdoor Excursions’, Burlington Contemporary Art Center
‘Intimate Immensity’, SCAD Galerie Pfriem, Lacoste, France
‘Night writing’, STPI (Singapore Tyler Print Institute), Singapore, 22 septembre – 29 octobre 2011
‘NY: New Perspectives’ with the contribution of Linda Yablonsky, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
‘Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens ’, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
‘The Parallax View’, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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 Artits from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Borusan Müzik Evi, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
Setouchi International Art Festival, Naoshima, Japan
2009
‘The Passionat Pursuit’, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
‘Mark-Making: Dots. Lines, and Curves’, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
‘Paper Trail V: Intimate Gestures’, Judi Rottenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, U.‘New Work’, Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
2008
‘Mental Drawings, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2007
‘Mining Glass’, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
‘Sculptors Drawing’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, U.S.A.
‘The Sum of Its Parts’, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2006
‘A Room of One’s Own’, Frost Art Museum - Florida International University, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
‘The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy’, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + ,Projects, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Big Juicy Paintings (and More): Selections from the Permanent Collection’, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2005
‘MOCA & Miami’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
‘Extreme Abstraction’, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
‘Vanishing Point: Hidden Beauty in Contemporary Art’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2004
‘In Situ: Installations and Large-Scale Works in the Permanent Collection’, MOCA Miami, FL, U.S.A.
2002
‘Outer City, Inner Space: Teresita Fernández, Stephen Hendee, and Ester Partegas’, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘The Young Latins’, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, NY, U.S.A.
‘Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Show’, Ace Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Off the Grid’, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2001
‘GlobeIsland’, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
‘Hortus Conclusus’, Witte de With Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
‘Inside Space’, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
‘Reading the Museum’, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2000
‘Wonderland’, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘La Ville, Le Jardin, La Mémoire’, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy
‘Greater New York’, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, L.I.C., New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Not seing’, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
‘Déjà-vu’, Miami Art Fair 2000, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
1999
‘Luminous Mischief’, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
‘On Your Own Time’, P.S.1 Contemporary Art, Long Island, NY, U.S.A.
1998
‘Threshold’, The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada
‘Seamless’, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘Insertions’, Arkipelag - Stockholm Cultural Capital of Europe, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
‘The Crystal Stopper’, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘X-Site’, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
1996
‘Enclosures’, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Container 96’, Copenhagen Cultural Capital, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Defining the Nineties’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
1995
‘Selections Spring ‘95’, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Fine’, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
‘The New Orleans Triennial’, The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
‘South Florida Cultural Consortium’, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A.
1993
‘South Florida Artists Invitational’, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A.
‘Thirty and Under’, Ground Level Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
1992
34th Hortt Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Annual Invitational, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
Open Studio ’92, Rockville Arts Center, Rockville, MD, USA
Four Artists, Riverfront Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
1991
Sculpture Downtown, Main Street Center, Richmond, VA, USA
1988
30th Hortt Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Residencies
2011
Member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, New York, NY, U.S.A
2010
Residence at Institute Tyler Pratt, Singapour, Malaysia
2005
Fellowship of Fondation MacArthur, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
1998
ArtPace International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
1997
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, The Space Program, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ARCUS Project, Moriya, Japan
Honors and distinctions
2016
Visionary Artist Honoree, Art in General, New York, NY
2013
Aspen Award for Art, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2011
Presidential Appointment to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (served until 2014)
2005
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
2003
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY
1999
Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award
American Academy in Rome, Affiliated Fellowship
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
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park,
FL
Angel Building, London, United Kingdom
Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Bloomberg Family Foundation, New York, NY
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, NY
Dallas Cowboys Stadium, Dallas, TX
Grace Farms, New Canaan, CT
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (Purchased with funds from American Friends of Israel Museum)
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
LVMH Collection, Paris, France
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Nerman Collection, Overland Park, KS
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Sprint Art Collection, Overland Park, KS
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Public Orders
2015
Double Glass River, Grace Farms, New Canaan, CT, USA
Fata Morgana, Madison Square Park, New York, NY, USA
2014
Golden (Panorama), Aspen Art Museum, Elk Camp, Aspen, CO, USA
2013
Nocturnal (Navigation), United States Coast Guard, Washington, D.C., USA
2012
Yellow Mountains, Louis Vuitton Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Ink Sky, Louis Vuitton Place Vendôme, Paris, France
2010
Angel Building Commission, London, U.K.
Louis Vuitton Commission, Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris, France
2009
‘Stacked Waters’, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
‘Starfield’, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX, U.S.A.
‘Blind Blue Landscape’, Benesse Art Site, Naoshima, Japan
2008
‘Hothouse (Blue)’, Louis Vuitton Flagship, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2006
‘Seattle Cloud Cover’, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
2004
‘Chris Park’, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX, USA
2001
‘Bamboo Cinema’, Public Art Fund Commission, Madison Square Park, New York, NY, USA
2000
Hothouse, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
