Ana Teresa Fernández

Ana Teresa Fernández is an artist of fluencies. A student of linguistics, she speaks five languages. An artist of border erasure, she elevates the intersectionality of place, person, and politics to create a common human vernacular. Time-based actions and social gestures are her syntax. Land, history, gender, climate, and culture are her subjects. Performance, video, photography, painting, and sculpture are her dynamic tools of grammar. Through enacted narratives, she reveals the stories that divide but also bind us as human beings sharing a planet of great fragility and beauty.

Born in Tampico, Mexico, Fernandez grew up in California and lives in San Francisco. She has created residencies and public work in Haiti, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, Cuba, Mexico & throughout the United States. Fernández’s work is in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Indi­anapolis Museum of Art; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin; Denver Art Museum; Nevada Museum of Art; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University; The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry, Riverside, California.

Programs:

• Lucas Artists Program 20th Anniversary

• 2024 Marcus Exhibition (Art on the Grounds): Future Dreaming… A Path Forward

Awards:

• Marcus Commissioning Prize (2024)

Artworks:

• Circuitree (2024)
• Pulse (2024)