SANDRA C. FERNANDEZ

Sandra C. Fernández/ Bio

Sandra Fernández is an Ecuadorean-American artist born in 1964. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Art degree and a Master of Art at University of Wisconsin in Madison, she studied printmaking techniques at “Taller Tres en Raya” in Madrid, Spain. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught courses in Introductory and Advanced Photography, Non-Silver Processes, Artist’s Books and Book Design at Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University and State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching courses in the Art Department including Intaglio, Relief Printmaking, Artist’s Books, 2-D and 3-D Foundations. She is also the Director of the Guest Artists in Printmaking Program (GAPP) at the University of Texas at Austin.

Ms. Fernández has exhibited nationally and internationally with more than 17 solo shows and numerous collective. She has received New York Foundation for the Arts grants and was selected for the Pan-am Public Art Project: Art without Borders, Women’s Pavilion in Buffalo New York. Her awards include the Women of color Slide Portfolio: Hispanic national Juried Project, and the participation in the SERIE Project, a Latino Arts organization based in Austin, Texas. She has given Artist talks at many Universities in the US and also abroad. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Woman and Their Work in Austin, TX and is the vice President of the Board of Directors at the Serie Project Inc. in Austin, Texas.

Fernández’s works are held by private, public and corporate collectors from the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America including the Kohler Art Library in Madison Wisconsin, Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris France, The Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in Quito-Ecuador, the MexicArt Museum in Austin Texas, the Art Collection of the University of WI Hospital and Clinics, the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, TX, and the Ronald Mc.Donald House in Austin, Tx.

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