Education
2010 MFA California Institute of the Arts
2006 MA Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena
2002 BFA University of California, Los Angeles
2000 Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth and Council
2023
COLA-IMAP, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Commonwealth and Council, Quiero continuar contigo desde aquí, CDMX, MX
2022
how we are in time and space, Armory Art Center, Pasadena, CA
2021
Transits, Whistle Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Heartbeats, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth and Council with Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
Substrata, Epoch Gallery + LAMOA, https://epoch.gallery/
2020
NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Hand of Basajuan, collaboration with Ian James, Holiday Forever, Jacksonhole, WY
2019
Cartas al futuro, Art Basel Positions, Miami, FL
Todo en ti fue naufragio, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2018
Here is My Name, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
Commonwealth and Council, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Strata, Obra, Malmo, Sweden
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA
Our is a City of Writers, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA
Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
Memory is in Progress, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles
2015
Cinco caminos de partida, CAB, Museo de Arte de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Box (a proposition for ten years), third year anniversary at LAM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Points of Departure: Five Walks. Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
Between Two Worlds, Cal State LA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Heuristic Memories, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
And Yes, I Even Remember You, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ipsum, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paseo de los Melancólicos, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Box (a proposition for ten years), Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
2013
The Records, David Peterson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Demolition Woman, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange County, CA
Heroes, Carter and Citizen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
A Record of Succession, ltd Los Angeles, CA
Made in LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Marc di Suvero’s Peace Tower, Pacific Standard Time Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2011
CUE Art Foundation, Joan Mitchell Recipients, New York, NY
Question de Principe(s) /A Matter of Principle(s), Montreal, Canada
2010
Back To The Old House, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY
Patricia Fernandez// Maha Saab, ltd Los Angeles, CA
GLAMFA, Long Beach Galleries, CSULB, CA
Visiting Artist/Lecturer/Teaching Appointments
2020
California State University, Long Beach
Otis College of Art and Design
2019
Otis College of Art and Design, Fine Arts Program
California State University, Bakersfield
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
2018
California State University, Bakersfield
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
California State University, San Bernardino
2017 Otis College of Art And Design
California State University of Long Beach
2016
Academy of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland
Art Center, College of Art and Design, Pasadena
TMI Lecture Series, Human Resources, Los Angeles
2015
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2014
Cerritos College of Art, Art History Department
Pomona College of Art
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
San Francisco Art Institute
Otis College of Art and Design, Public Practice Program
2013
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Awards and Residencies
2023
COLA-IMAP
2021
Otis College of Art and Design Faculty Development Grant
2019
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant
Provost Scholar Award/Research Grant, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2018
Forest Island Residency, Mammoth Lakes, CA
2017
Pollock Krasner Grant
Artist in Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Speranza Foundation, project completion grant
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2016
Residence de Recollets, Paris, France. French Cultural Institute & City of Paris grant.
D-Flat Residency, Mexico, DF
2015
Lincoln City Fellowship, Speranza Foundation
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Residency Award
LACA Artist Book Residency, Los Angeles
2014
Viatge de les Arts, Col-loqui Walter Benjamin, MUME & Nau Coclea
Points of Departure, Artist Laboratory, 18th street Arts Residency, Santa Monica
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 Chenven Foundation Award
California Community Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for Project Completion, New York
2010
Joan Mitchell Grant
2009
Jaques 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, NY
2007
Artist in Residence, Paintings Edge, Idyllwild, CA
2006
LA Metro Poster Series Prize: Watts Neighborhood
Writing/Books
2024
Box (a proposition for ten years), a publication for its final presentation at Commonwealth and Council
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
Press
Simmons, Jessica. Heartbeats, Snap Review, Contemporary Art Review LA, January 21, 2021
Bryant, Jesse. Hand of Basajuan Explores Immigrant Stories, Jacksonhole News, February 2020
Morgan, Susan. The Impermanent Architecture at California Pacific Triennial. KCET, May 2017
Kauffman, V. Outside of Time, Art Journal Open, August 2016
Martin, V. Historias de una memoria silenciada, El Correo, November 14, 2015
I.L., Retales de la memoria silenciada, Diario de Burgos, November 14, 2015
Wagley, Cathering. Patricia Fernández’s Points of Departure: Five Walks. LA Weekly. May 12, 2015
García Vega, Miguel Ángel, Vanity Fair: Arte. Febrero. Arte. No. 78
Mizota, Sharon. Brief but potent memory: 'And yes, I even remember you' at Aran Cravey. L.A. Times Review. August 22, 2014
García Vega, Miguel Ángel, Patricia Fernández recupera la memoria del exilio republicano, Blog EL PAIS, August 9, 2014
Vikram, Anuradha. Patricia Fernández: Translations of Memory. KCET/Artbound. May 2014
Evans, Ariel. First Look. Art in America, April 2014
Finsel, Dan. The Artists’ Artists. ArtForum’s Best of 2013
Grabner, Michelle. My Highlights at NADA Miami Beach, Artsy.net, December 2013
Hanson, B. Wreck it.,The Orange County Register, October 14, 2013
Tuck, Geoff. A Correspondence, Notes of Looking, April 15, 2013
Whitehead, A. Martine. Review of Box (a proposition for ten years), Art Practical, April 14, 2013
Coburn, Tyler. Art Review, exhibition Review: Made in LA. Fall issue.
Myers, Holly. Los Angeles Times, Review: Patricia Fernandez's touchingly eloquent 'Record', June 6, 2012
Wagley, Catherine. Looking at Los Angeles: Anything but the Kitchen Sink, Art21 blog, June 14.
New Yorker: Arts Pick, January 11, 2011
Clark, Artemisa. Art Info/Modern Painters. July 8, 2010