BIO

Ana Fernandez is a visual artist whose work encompasses drawing, printmaking, painting, fibers and collage. She is currently based in the US and Spain. She was born in Madrid (Spain), and obtained undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts (Printmaking + Fibers) and Japanese Language and Literature from the University of Washington, along with a MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (where she was awarded The Presidential Scholarship, a merit-based full-tuition grant).

She has taught printmaking and drawing at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and has participated in exhibitions in the US and abroad, including Japan, Cuba, Scotland, Italy, France and Spain. She is collected in private and public collections, and her artwork was included in the recently published book Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp. She has been awarded residencies at the Frans Masereel Centrum (Kasterlee, Belgium), Women’s Studio Workshop (Kingston, NY), and the Studios at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA), amongst others. She is a member of the Boston Printmakers and Zea Mays Printmaking (Florence MA).

Her artwork reflects a tactile sensibility and an affinity for layering, patterning and ornamentation. Thematically, it focuses on the interaction between fashion, representations of the female body, and notions of femininity.