Patricia Fernández
Born in 1980
Lives and works in Los Angeles


Education
2010
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA

2006
MA, Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, USA

2002
BFA, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

2000
Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK


Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2021
Transits, Whistle, Seoul, Korea
Heartbeats, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, USA
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth & Council with Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, USA

2019
Cartas al futuro, Art Basel Positions, Miami, USA

2018
Here is My Name, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, USA
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, USA

2017
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, USA

2016
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, USA
Memory is in Progress, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, USA

2015
Cinco caminos de partida, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Box (a proposition for ten years), LAM Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Points of Departure: Five Walks, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, USA

2014
Paseo de los Melancólicos, LAXART, Los Angeles, USA
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, USA

2013
The Records, David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis, USA

2012
A Record of Succession, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA


Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2021
Substrata, Epoch Gallery + LAMOA, https://epoch.gallery/

2020
NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Hand of Basajuan, collaboration with Ian James, Holiday Forever, Jackson, USA

2019
Todo en ti fue naufragio, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, USA

2018
Commonwealth & Council, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA

2017
Strata, Obra, Malmo, Sweden
California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, USA
Ours is a City of Writers, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2015
Between Two Worlds, Cal State LA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2014
Heuristic Memories, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2013
Demolition Woman, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange County, USA

2012
Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2011
CUE Art Foundation, Joan Mitchell Recipients, New York, USA

2010
Back to the Old House, Clifton Benevento, New York, USA


Awards and Residencies
2019
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant
Provost Scholar Award/Research Grant, California State University, Bakersfield, USA

2018
Forest Island Residency, Mammoth Lakes, USA

2017
Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Artist in Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Project completion grant, Speranza Foundation
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

2016
Residence de Recollets, Institut Français and City of Paris, France
DFlat Residency, Mexico City, Mexico

2015
Lincoln City Fellowship, Speranza Foundation
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Residency Award
LACA Artist Book Residency, Los Angeles, USA

2014
Viatge de les Arts, Col•loqui Walter Benjamin, MUME & Nau Côclea
Points of Departure, Artist Laboratory, 18th Street Arts Residency, Santa Monica, USA

2013
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, CSAV with Matt Mullican, Como, Italy

2012
CCI Investing in Artists Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
France Los Angeles Exchange Residency: Grant for a project in Bordeaux
USA Projects Artist Grant

2011
Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Award
California Community Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for Project Completion, New York, USA

2010
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant

2009
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Scholarship
Ahmanson Grant, California Institute of the Arts
Alumni Travel Grant, California Institute of the Arts

2008
Dean’s Grant, California Institute of the Arts 
Artist Project Grant, General Consulate of Spain, New York, USA

2007
Artist in Residence, Paintings Edge, Idyllwild, USA

2006
LA Metro Poster Series Prize: Watts Neighborhood


Publications
2019
In many valleys, the sun, was the eye of god. With Ian James; printed by Colpa Press, SF

2018
Forest Island Activity Report, Fall, Number 1

2017
Memory is in Progress: The Heart. X-TRA Spring 2017, Volume 19, Number 3
Boite Editions, From Rue de Latran, #17, Numbered Edition of 250, Milan.

2015
Points of Departure: Five Walks. Risograph Book produced at LACA, Edition of 50

2012
Rue de Latran, New Byzantium Press, Edition of 100
Notes on A Record of Succession, Artist Edition of 25