CARLEE FERNANDEZ

Born in Santa Ana, CA, 1973. Raised in London, UK and Leiden, NL. Lives in Los Angeles.


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
2010 "World According to Xavier", ACME., Los Angeles, CA (September 11)
2007 "Man", Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 "Man", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Bear Studies", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Still Lifes", Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 "Still Lifes", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "Friends", Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 “California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (October 24)
2009 “Intelligent Design”, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
2008 "Phantom Sightings", Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Acclimatation", Villa Arson Art Centre, 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, Los Angeles, 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
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
2010 Schwendener, Martha. “Art After the Chicano Movement”, The Village Voice, April 6.
2009 Cheng, Scarlet. “Animals’ place in nature at UC Riverside’s Sweeney Art Gallery”, LA Times, Sept 27.
2008 Haddad, Natalie. “Phantom Sightings”, Frieze, September.
2008 Chang, Richard. “A banner year for an O.C. woman,” OC Register, June 6
Lequeux, Emmanuelle. “Quand les artistes parlent d’ecologie ce n’est pas pour devenir verts,” Le Monde, April 21.
Ramade, Bénédicte. “Éco-pastille,” 02 Magazine.
2007 Lippens, Nate. "Fernandez's homage to 'Man' is envy without the bitterness"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan 19.
Myers, Holly. "Through a Lens Starkly", LA Times, Sept 12.
2006 "Carlee Fernandez", Cover, Artkrush.com, Issue 38.
Duncan, Michael. "Opening Salvos in L.A.", Art in America, November.
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.
Baker, Kenneth. "Little 'Repentances,' Blurry Details Show Art's Proper Place," SF Chronicle, Aug 14.
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.
2000 Gunnin, John. "Creature Commodities", Juxtapoz, May/June.

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
  Los Angeles County Art Museum of Art-LACMA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
San Jose Museum of Art

AWARDS
2008 California Community Foundation
2000 Fulbright Fellowship Awardee