Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Institution: California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside

Grant Cycle: Fall 2020

Amount: $65,000

Type of Grant: Exhibition Support

Website: ucrarts.ucr.edu/exhibitions/christina-fernandez-multiple-exposures ↗

Christina Fernandez, Starline Fashion, from the series “Manuela S-T-I-T-C-H-E-D,” 1996. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles

Christina Fernandez, Untitled Multiple Exposure #4 (Bravo), 1999 Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles

Christina Fernandez, Lavandería #1, 2002 Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA.

Christina Fernandez, Lavandería #2, 2002. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA.

This landmark exhibition surveys the work of Christina Fernandez, the crucially important Los Angeles-based artist who has spent thirty years in a rich exploration of migration, labor, gender, her Mexican-American identity, and the unique capacities of the photographic medium itself. Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures brings together the artist’s most important bodies of works for the first time, allowing audiences to discover the threads that connect them, both formal and conceptual. Through work that spans decades, Fernandez compels us to reconsider history, the border, and the real lives that cross and inhabit them.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the first major monographic catalogue of her work, co-published with the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA.

1994

On May 13, 1994 the Andy Warhol Museum opened its doors to the public. The museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials, and is the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world and the largest in North America.