CARLEE FERNANDEZ
Born in Santa Ana, CA, 1973
Lives and works in Los Olivos, CA
EDUCATION
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Claremont Graduate University, CA
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1994-5 Scuola di Nudo, Florence, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 "Arranging Family", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 "Arranging Family", ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2010 "World According to Xavier", ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2007 "Man", Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 "Man", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Bear Studies", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "Still Lifes", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "Friends", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Passion. Images of the Hunt, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
2015 Portraiture Now: Staging the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Jokes of Nature, Redline, Denver, CO (September-October)
ArtPrize: Nature/Nurture, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (September)
Traveled to: Americas Society, New York, NY (June 2015-October 2105) National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM (Nov 2015-March 2016)
"Late Harvest", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (September 27, 2014 - January 18, 2015)
20 Years of ACME., ACME., Los Angeles, CA
MODA Curates, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, NY
2011 "Human Nature", Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009 “Intelligent Design”, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
2008 "Phantom Sightings: - Art After the Chicano Movement", Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Traveled to: 2008, Museo Rufino Tamayo,Mexico City, Mexico | 2009, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, Texas | Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ | 2010, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY | "Acclimatation", Villa Arson, Nice, France
2007 "Body Double", Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"In the Dermisphere", Williamson Gallery at Art Center College, Pasadena, CA
"Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
2006 "Cavities", Main Gallery, CSU, Fullerton, CA
"Witness Protection", Robert V. Fullerton Museum, CSU, San Bernardino, CA
2004 “Upstarts”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Borderland", JCCC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, KS
"Domestic Odyssey", San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary", Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2003 “Mixer 03”, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Still Life, Still Here", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2001 "Cyborg Manifesto or The Joy of Artifice", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Passion. Bilder Von Der Jagd, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Scheidegger & Spiess
2014 Late Harvest, Nevada Art Museum, Hirmer
2011 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, DelMonico Book
2008 "Phantom Sightings", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UC Press
2007 "Sculpture Today", edited by Judy Collins, published by Phaidon
2006 "Witness Protection", essay by Thomas McGovern, published by Robert V. Fullerton Museum
2004 "Birdspace", essay by David S. Rubin, published by Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
"Domestic Odyssey", published by San Jose Museum of Art
2002 "Art Tomorrow", edited by Edward Lucie-Smith, published by Terrail
SELECTED PERIODICALS
2015 Tommaney, Susie. "Arranging Family", Houston Press, January 14
2014 Mizota, Sharon. "Carlee Fernandez @ ACME. LA Times, March 6
2010 Knight, Christopher. "Carlee Fernandez @ ACME Gallery", LA Times, Sept 30.
Ollman, Leah. Review, Art in America, December.
Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena. Review, Art Ltd., November.
Warchol, Kit. Review, Modern Painters.
2008 Chang, Richard. “A banner year for an O.C. woman,” OC Register, June 6
Ramade, Bénédicte. “Éco-pastille,” 02 Magazine.
2007 Myers, Holly. "Through a Lens Starkly", Los Angeles Times, Sept 12
2006 Duncan, Michael. “Opening Salvos in L.A.”, Art in America, November
"Carlee Fernandez", Cover, Artkrush.com, Issue 38.
Kinney, Tulsa. "Fernandez Talks About the New Beast in Her Art", Artillery, December.
Black, Ezrha Jean. "Her Father is the "Man" Among Men", Artillery, December.
2004 Nelson, Arty. "The Bear Essentials," LA Weekly, November 12-18.
Kurtz, Katie. "Animals and Anatomy", The Stranger, Sept. 30.
2003 Latimer, Quinn. Columbia University: A Journal of Literature and Art, #38.
McGovern, Thomas. “’Still Life, Still Here” at the Armory Gallery”, Artweek, October.
Ollman, Leah. “Still Life Goes on Divergently at Armory Exhibit,” LA Times, August 6.
Gleason, Mat. “Art Angelenos”, Modern Painters, Spring.
2002 Kelly, Bill. "Interview with emerging artist Carlee", Latinart.com, November.
Scarborough, James. "Carlee Fernandez at Acuna-Hansen Gallery", Artweek, November.
Gleason, Mat. “Downtown Animal”, Coagula, February.
2001 Duncan, Michael. "Carlee Fernandez at Acuña-Hansen", Art in America, December.
Ollman, Leah. “High Anxiety Over High-Tech Humanity”, LA Times, May 12.
Breslin, Susannah. “Person for the Artistic Treatment of Animals” LA Weekly, May 11-17.
VIDEOS
2008 Lacma/Phantom Sightings: Carlee Fernandez, Edited by Jun Tiangco.
2002 Tracks: Carlee Fernandez, Edited by Ira Wedel, Arte (German/French television channel), May.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Los Angeles County Art Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
AWARDS
2008 California Community Foundation
2000 Fulbright Fellowship Awardee