Biography

Below bio from Carlee Fernandez Website: www.carleefernandez.com/bio/
Born in Santa Ana, California in 1973, Carlee Fernandez received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 1999. She had a solo exhibition at ACME. (Los Angeles, California) in 2010, and her work was included in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, California). Her work has been exhibited in “Phantom Sightings,” a show originally at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which also traveled to the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and at Villa Arson in Nice, France, and is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, California); the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, Kansas); and the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, California). Her work has been published in Art Tomorrow and Sculpture Today. A recipient of the 2008 California Community Foundation Fellowship, Fernandez is represented by ACME., Los Angeles.

Fernandez’ sculptural and photographic work transforms natural objects such as taxidermy animals or human bodies into new configurations that challenge the boundaries of singularity and formal distinction by blurring traditional epistemological categories. Christopher Knight, writing in the Los Angeles Times, remarks that her ensembles “mix reverence for the natural world with art’s imaginative wildness, trading conceptual places in unexpected ways.” Binary categories such as animal/human, femininity/masculinity, instinctual survival/cultural constraints, beauty/grotesque or death/life are unsettled in works which address, as Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue comments in Art Ltd., “a rhizome of rich ungoverned allusions to many related things: to biology, biography, family, identity and lineage.”

Lives and works in Los Olivos, CA

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