Above left: Self-portrait, Christina Fernandez
Above right: Bend, 1999–2000/2014, Installation of one photographic/text wall mural and 5 pigment prints mounted on Dibond aluminum, Mural dimensions variable up to 10 x 20 ft., 5 - 20 x 30 in. (prints)

"In Review - Performance and Embodiment"

Thursday, May 22, 4:00 p.m.

Lectures will be in Lawrence Hall, Room 115, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403.  

This talk will cover Christina Fernandez's performance for camera work from the very beginning of her photographic practice as an undergrad student at UCLA to the present, including new work that addresses the female body, aging, and sexuality. Fernandez has often used her own body before the camera as a stand-in for the collective Latina, both becoming or playing the role of a historical/mythical figure, a family member, and as herself.

Christina Fernandez (b. 1965) a Los Angeles–based artist, has spent over three decades conducting rich explorations of migration, labor, gender, her Mexican American identity, and the capacities of photography itself. She earned her BA at UCLA in 1989 and her MFA at Cal Arts in 1996. She is an associate professor at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. Fernandez’s projects have been in major exhibitions including Shifting Landscapes (Whitney Museum of American Art) Home - So Different, So Appealing (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017), Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008). Her work has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many other venues. In 2021, Fernandez was one of the first artists honored with the prestigious Latinx Artist Fellowship and Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures is the first major monographic museum exhibition of her work. 

This lecture is made possible by the George and Matilda Fowler Endowment Fund.  

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